Israel Regardie

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Israel Regardie (November 17, 1907 - March 10, 1985) was an occultist/psychologist. He was born in London.

Table of contents

1 Bio

1.1 Early Life
1.2 The Crowley Years
1.3 Later Life
1.4 Quotes

2 Israel Regardie's Books

3 Links of Interest

4 References

Bio

Early Life

Born In London, Regardie moved to Washington D.C. with his family in 1921 at the age of 13. He developed an interest in occult matters early on and joined SRIA (Societas Rosicruciana in America) in 1926

The Crowley Years

After reading a copy of Book Four by Aleister Crowley, Regardie Started a correspondence with Aleister Crowley, later becoming his secretary in 1928. In 1932 Crowley and Regardie has a rather large falling out (snide words said on both sides, but later Regardie made his peace with Crowley.)

In 1932 Regardie joined an offshoot of the Golden Dawn called Stella Matutina and quickly found the order was starting to fall apart. In order to preserve the knowledge of the order, Regardie took the bulk of the Order's documents and compiled the book, The Golden Dawn (1937), which earned him the enmity of the other former members and the reputation of being an oath-breaker. However, the book transformed the work of the Order into an entire new branch of the Western Occult Tradition. The various occult organizations claiming descent from the original Golden Dawn and the systems of magic practiced by them owe their continuing existence and popularity to Regardie's work.

Later Life

In 1937 Regardie Moved back to America and took up the study of psychology and psychotherapy and later started up his own practice.

He died from a heart attack in Sedona, Arizona on March 10 1985.

Quotes

"One of his pet hates, was people associating him with Crowley's brand of Thelemic Magic, and the Book of the Law....I can still recall him thumping the table at dinner one night saying 'Dammit, I'm a Golden Dawn man and not a Thelemite, and I wish people would realize it.' -Pat Zalewski

Israel Regardie's Books

Regardie, Israel. (1984). The Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic. Phoenix, Ariz., U.S.A. : Falcon Press.
Regardie, Israel. (1989). The Golden Dawn : a Complete Course in Practical Ceremonial Magic. St. Paul, Minn., U.S.A. : Llewellyn Publications.
Regardie, Israel. (1998). The Middle Pillar. St. Paul, Minn. : Llewellyn Publications.
Regardie, Israel. (1970). A Garden of Pomegranates. Saint Paul, Minn., Llewellyn Publications.

Links of Interest

References

Portions of this text was originally taken from: Wikipedia. (2004). Israel Regardie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Regardie). Retrieved Sept. 22, 2004.

Regardie Bio (http://www.hermeticgoldendawn.org/Documents/Bios/regardie.htm) from the Hermetic Golden Dawn website (The Cicero's site)

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