Spiritual Business

A New Decade

A new beginning in a new decade.

I was researching over the break and I found The Twelve Principles from The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Not quite your average group.

It was founded by three Rosicrucian Masons in 1888, where men and women from all classes worked together as equals in magical ceremonies to develop their psychic ability and spiritual growth. It was the largest single influence on 20th Century occultism and had many fascinating members including: Bram Stoker who wrote Dracula, George Bernard Shaw- playwrite of Pygmalion, Maud Gonne who was the muse of William Yeats, Arthur Waite - the creator of the Rider Waite Tarot deck, Allan Bennett, who bought Buddhism to the West and Edith Nesbit, who wrote many of my fave childrens books as a child.

One of the women, Annie Horniman, created the Dublin Abbey Theatre through a series of four tarot readings. Crazy stuff.

Here are the Twelve Principles of Success based on the Golden Dawn philosophy - I think there are some special ones in here for everyone.

Twelve Principles of Success

• Have a "room of one's own"--a space in which to "breathe."
• Find outcast communities and acquire outsider philosophies that support your belief in personal power.
• Channel creative energy through some form of artistic expression.
• Operate in a metaphoric universe in which you can transfer ideas from one realm to another.
• Believe you can influence events (i.e., "create your own reality").
• Name your most valued qualities as your own source of power (i.e., through a magical name).
• Make choices: both affirm and set boundaries.
• Face problems as creative challenges, allowing for paradox, to create "uniquely fitting situations."
• Be self-conscious and self-reflecting, using astrology, tools of divination, and metaphysical models of existence.
• Allow for inner diversity, and sidestep or return projections using methods of psychic protection.
• Periodically center and renew your connection with Spirit through cyclic and seasonal rituals, initiations, and rites of passage.
• Use will, imagination and desire (i.e., magick) to transcend the limits of normal experience.

Happy New Decade and may your year be filled with wonder and magic.

2 Responses to ‘A New Decade’

1. Fishgirl says:

January 4, 2010 at 2:22pm

Oh my gosh, this is fantastic! I especially love looking at this and realising how many i have done at times i have been very connected. Great to know the background. Thanks, Dreamweaver!

2. hmog says:

January 4, 2010 at 2:50pm

THANK YOU! Great post, I find myself completely and magnetically drawn to those principles; they resonate with me sooooooooo much !!!

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