Регарди, Фрэнсис Израэль

Dr. Francis Israel Regardie AKA Francis Israel Regudy AKA Ad Majorem Adonai Gloriam AKA "To the Greater Glory of Adonai" or AMAG; England / America 1907 - 1985 Teachers: Aleister Crowley; Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers; Theodor Reuss; Dr. Nandor Fodor.; Wilhelm Reich; Students: Chic Cicero and Sandra Tabatha Cicero; Kirk White; Robert Anton Wilson; Chuck Furnace; Christopher S. Hyatt AKA Alan Miller Ph.D.; Lon Milo DuQuette; Cris Monnastre AKA Patricia Behman; William Kennedy; Larry Adam Forrest; Clifford Bias; Robert Wang; P.R. Stephenson; Jerry Cornelius; WB Justin ****; A.C. Highfield; Friends: Antero Alli; Sybil Leek; Francis Rolt-Wheeler, Editor, The Seer; Enemies: Carl Llewellyn Weschcke;

Organizations: Freemasonry; Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia, (SRIA); Stella Matutina offshoot of the defunct Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn; Author: biography of Aleister Crowley, The Eye in the Triangle; The Golden Dawn (Big Blue, Llewellyn edition), The Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic (Big Red), Falcon Press; A Garden of Pomegranates; The Tree of Life; My Rosicrucian Adventure; The Art of True Healing; The Middle Pillar; The Philosopher's Stone; The Romance of Metaphysics; The Art and Meaning of Magic; Be Yourself, the Art of Relaxation; New Wings for Daedalus; Twelve Steps to Spiritual Enlightenment; Roll Away the Stone; The Legend of Aleister Crowley (with P.R. Stephenson); The Art And Meaning Of Magic; Foundations of Practical Magic: An Introduction to Qabalistic, Magical and Meditative Techniques; Comments: Ceremonial Magician; brought Magick from the 1930s to the 1980s ; Freemason; Thelemite; Chiropractor; Rosicrucian; Qabalist; late in life, Chuck Furnace was able to speak to him by phone and ask him some questions on Qabalah and his Hebrew pronunciation on the Tapes he prepared for Falcon Press at the time; He was very soft spoken, and very kind to put up with questions from someone so much less experienced; His death, while expected, came as a shock and disappointment, since there was some hope (which he gently dashed) he might travel and do book signings (perhaps even at our store in New Haven, CT) for "Big Red", his revision of the Golden Dawn teachings; But he was already too fragile to travel, so he chatted by phone; He mentioned that he was never paid by Carl Llewellyn Weschcke for the previous edition, Big Blue, as we called it, and in part the revisions were to create a new version he could own out-right; References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Regardie ; read him here - http://darkbooks.org/collection/Israel-Regardie.html ; see his student's interpretation at http://darkbooks.org/collection/Robert-Wang.html ;