Golden Dawn — Programs for the Six Stages

Stage 1: General

1- Fourfold breathing through the whole body.

2- Pentagram Banishing Ritual.

3- Hexagram Banishing Ritual.

4- Middle Pillar Ritual 1.

• Additional: Fourfold Adoration exercise.

Read the daily Tarot card and meditate on it.

Exercise in silence and stillness.

Stage 2: Earth

1- Fourfold breathing: Root Chakra.

2- Ritual of ascent to the Cube of Space.

3- Lesser Pentagram Banishing Rituals.

4- Saturn Hexagram Banishing Rituals.

5- Invoke the four powers of Earth.

6- Middle Pillar 2 after the powers of Earth.

7- Building the body in Assiah.

Stage 3: Air

1. Circular breathing (Heart Chakra)

2. Ascent to the Cube of Space

3. Lesser Pentagram Banishing Rituals

4. Hexagram Banishing Rituals

5. Invoking the four powers of Air

6. The Middle Pillar

7. The body in Yetzirah.

8. Theoricus meditation

9. Banishing the four powers of Air

10. Lesser Pentagram Banishing Rituals

11- Moon rituals

12- Saturn rituals

Stage 4: Water

1- 4-7-8 breathing, Second Chakra

2- Invoking the four powers of Water

3- The Middle Pillar

4- The body in Briah

5- Meditation on the oval shape

Stage 5: Fire

1- 4-7-8 breathing, Third Chakra

2- Invoking the four powers of Fire

3- The Middle Pillar

4- The body in Atziluth

5- Philosophus meditation

Stage 6: The Portal

1. Chakra breathing

2. Ascent to the Pyramid Temple

3. Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram

4. Banishing Ritual of the Hexagram (with a modified “Analysis of the Key Word”)

5. Supreme Invoking Ritual of the Pentagram

6. The Middle Pillar

7. The Fourfold Body of Light

8. Portal meditation

9. Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram

Other rituals performed when necessary:

1. Invocation and Banishing of the Sun

2. Opening by Watchtower

3. Rose Cross Ritual