DISC-0011 / ITEM-0004

Knowledge lectures and inner-order teachings

Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn · United Kingdom

Disclosure date: 1937
Date precision: Year
Disclosure method: Defector testimony
Extent: Full
Record review: Unreviewed

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Restricted material and access

Instructional papers on Kabbalah / astrology / geomancy / ritual magic issued grade by grade.

Material type: Graded doctrine
Restricted to: Initiates of each grade
Restriction mechanism: oath, grade_requirement
Stated reason: Teaching must follow the candidate's progress
Tradition origins: 1888

Recorded practice status

Modified

Provisional: no dated status evidence is linked.

Status as of: Not recorded
Status claims: Not recorded

Disclosure dates, source publication dates, tradition origins and dates of practice are separate.

What this disclosure covers

The five knowledge lectures of the Outer Order, with the Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram and other papers (vol. 1, pp. 99–162)

The source

The Golden Dawn (4 vols.) ↗ (SRC-0008; authenticity: Unassessed)

Author: Israel Regardie
Original publication: 1937–1940
Linked edition: Not recorded
Format: Book
Provenance: defector_account
Rights of source work: Copyrighted
Identifiers: ol:OL1989588W;ia:IsraelRegardie-thegoldenDawn-vol1-1937;ia:IsraelRegardie-TheGoldenDawn-Vol2-1938;ia:IsraelRegardie-TheGoldenDawn-Vol3-1939;ia:IsraelRegardie-TheGoldenDawn-Vol4-1940
Source content hash: Not recorded

Aries Press, Chicago. Based on Stella Matutina papers. Linked copy is Volume Two (1938): Rituals of the First Order and the Portal.

Claims about this item

These claims may cite other sources for the same restricted item. Supporting and contradicting evidence remain separate.

CLM-0039 · Content

The First Knowledge Lecture covers the four elements and their qualities, the twelve signs of the zodiac by triplicity, the seven planets of the ancients and the lunar nodes, the Hebrew alphabet and the ten Sephiroth. It is followed by the Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram: with a steel dagger the student makes the Qabalistic Cross (Ateh, Malkuth, ve-Geburah, ve-Gedulah, le-Olam, Amen), draws a pentagram in each quarter while vibrating YHVH, Adonai, Eheieh and Agla, and calls on Raphael, Gabriel, Michael and Auriel.

Claim support: Single source
Record review: Reviewed
Period: 1937 (as published); Stella Matutina practice
Locators: vol. 1, pp. 99–107
Sources counted as independent: Not recorded

Supporting sources

The Golden Dawn (4 vols.) ↗ (SRC-0008; authenticity: Unassessed)

Contradicting sources: none recorded.

Checked against the Internet Archive text of Volume One (1937) on 2026-11-04. Regardie places the pentagram ritual immediately after the First Knowledge Lecture; the banishing form reverses the direction of the pentagrams.

SRC-0008: Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0008: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
ITEM-0004: The recorded practice status is provisional: no dated status claims are linked.

Evidence qualifications

SRC-0008 · source_authenticity_unassessed: Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0008 · source_without_content_hash: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
DISC-0011 · record_unreviewed: Record review status is unreviewed; review is not proof of truth.
ITEM-0004 · status_without_dated_evidence: The recorded practice status is provisional: no dated status claims are linked.

Reviewed means checked against a source. It does not establish source authenticity, independent corroboration or present-day practice.