My Rosicrucian adventure. Regardi I.

Regardi tells about his membership in secret societies that have had a huge impact on the development of modern occultism. He lifts the cover of secrets that these organizations were shrouded from the second half of the 19th century, and tells what really happened behind closed doors of the hermetic order of the Golden Dawn, Theosophical Society, the Brotherhood of Rosicrucians and Masonic lodges. Based on a close personal acquaintance, Regardi describes the true character and activity of such occultists as Alistair Crowley, S.L. McGregor Maszer, Dr. U.U. Westkott and Dion Fortun. This exciting book was first published in 1936 and quickly became a bibliographic rarity. To avoid the accusation of personal benefits from the publication of the materials of the Golden Dawn Order, Regardi sold the rights to “My Rosicrucian adventure” for 30 years. And only after many years, in 1971, it was reprinted with a new introduction and afterword, where Regardi gives new information about rites and rituals, which the oath did not allow him to publish during the first publication of the book. In the "My Rosicrucian adventure" are considered as the theoretical foundations of the ceremonies of various degrees of the Golden Dawn. So the real practice of dedication rites adopted in this order. The fear of condemnation from the brothers did not stop the regardi: he carefully analyzes and criticizes the methods and procedures of the order and reveals the true aspirations of its members.