GoldenDawnBooks.com™
|
|
Secrets of the Golden Dawn Cypher Manuscript by Carroll "Poke" Runyon The Cipher Manuscript is an important Golden Dawn document. The initiation rituals and knowledge lectures of the Golden Dawn are based upon this mysterious manuscript which was first revealed by Dr. W. Wynn Westcott in 1887. The manuscript consists of about sixty pages of paper, upon which was written the ritual outlines of the Golden Dawn system in an artificial alphabet based on the cipher of Trithemius (1462-1516) in his book Polygraphiae. For years several occultists and historians have speculated about the source of the Cipher Manuscript. However, recent developments in the study of the original Cipher Manuscript has Golden Dawn scholars and historians more convinced than ever about its exact origins |
|
This book contains the complete, original Cypher Manuscript of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in facsimile along with a fully annotated decipherment, detailed synopsis of the text and a fascinating history of the manuscript itself. Foreword by Pat Zalewski. Afterword by R. A. Gilbert on Wynn Westcott's Cypher Notebook. Secrets of the Golden Dawn Cypher Manuscript by Carroll "Poke" Runyon, (Siverado, CA: C.H.S., Inc.) 1997 ISBN 0-9654881-2-8 |
|
Back to:
Golden Dawn Studies