| Title: | Psychic Phenomena | 
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    I need some feedback. Please help.  Recently I purchased a book on the
    Qabala to learn more about it. The book was from the Golden Dawn.  A
    week or so ago I was in a book store and while leafing through another
    book on the subject I realized that some of the information was not
    consistent with the Golden Dawn's book.  In fact some of it was the exact
    opposite for instance, the Tree of Life was exactly inverted ( the
    right-hand pillar in the GD book was the left-hand pillar in the other
    book).  I thought that it could be due to plain carelessness until
    Wednsday when my Tarot instructor mentioned that the founders of the
    Golden Dawn had purposely mixed lies in with the truth so as to keep
    their information secret.  Has anyone else every heard this of the
    Golden Dawn? I'd hate to think that I am wasting my free time learning
    a bunch of garbage.
    
    
Tia
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| 2036.1 | REGENT::BROOMHEAD | Don't panic -- yet. | Fri Mar 03 1995 14:06 | 16 | |
|     Tia,
    
    Oh, yeah, there's a lot written about the Golden Dawn.  (There is
    always the possibility that the "Golden Dawn" you got your book from
    is not the same one.  Even if it says it is.)
    
    For a very quick, first-pass try, look up "Aleister Crowley" in any
    decent encyclopedia, and go from there.  And do a
    
    DIR/TITLE=DAWN *.*
    or
    SEARCH/NOTE=*.* "Golden Dawn"
    
    in this conference.
    
    							Ann B.
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| 2036.2 | OTZ CHIM | MASALA::JENKINSR | Thu Mar 09 1995 04:16 | 12 | |
|     Re.1
    
          When using the tree of life on the human body the person 
          backs on to the tree.This means that the left shoulder is
          at the head of the pillar of mercy,and the right shoulder
          at the head of the pillar of severity.
          Could it be the qliphotic tree as I am not sure if this 
          tree is a mirror image of the sephirothic tree,or laid 
          down diagonaly opposite ,eg. as in the relationship
          between chokmah,geburah,netzach.
    
    
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