Perhaps he was too close to Crowley the man and suffered from Crowley's very bitter anti-semitic remarks about him after their falling out, to feel particularly close to Crowley's cult on a personal level. Firstly, Regardie once famously said 'I'm a Golden Dawn man, not a Thelemite!'. There are probably a number of reasons for this. Has anyone else noticed this?Īn interesting observation. But aside from an offhand comment in a Speech in the Silence podcast, I can't remember the last time I saw or heard a Thelemite publication even mention him. Perhaps it's just my own experience, and that Falcon Press/New Falcon/Original Falcon played such a role in my early occult reading, but there seemed a time when one could barely pick up a book by or about Crowley without an introduction, preface, editing, or something by Regardie. My opinions of Regardie fluctuate, but I had noticed in recent years he seems to be disappearing somewhat. 3 & 4, IIRC, where he comments on an unedited MWT, pointing out the sections that Regardie edited, and why he believes that Regardie made the change in question, what his dark ulterior motives were behind the expurgation of the words of The Beast!

And you've got to remember that his edits and deletions of Magick Without Tears, The Law Is For All, and Gems From The Equinox (among others) were subtly very influential on minds that didn't know they were being influenced- very few people have the 1954 'Magic Without Tears' edition to compare Regardie's edit to, line for line. One of the 'Grand Old Men' here in the U.S. I would like to know your opinion of Regardie as a magician, and figure of Golden Dawn and Thelema. Even though I consider, with all due respect to each individuals oppinion of him, a key figure in occultism, Thelema (although he considered himself a Golden Dawn magician and not a Thelemite per se), and Magick in general, I have encountered many people who don't really value Regardie and are highly critical of him.

I have admired this man ever since I started my magickal studies.

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