Blurb:

This represents the most famous of the rituals that Bennett wrote when he was a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and the most republished. It was originally performed with three other Golden Dawn members: Florence Farr (Soror S.S.D.D.) (1860–1917), Frederick Leigh Gardner (Frater D.P.A.L.) (1857–1930), and Charles Rosher (Frater A.A.). The goal of the ceremony was to bind the mercurial spirit, Taphthartharath, to a talisman so that they might use it to obtain hidden knowledge. The structure of the ceremony was based on the Golden Dawn Neophyte initiation, namely the first initiation a person took when entering the Golden Dawn. The version in this collection includes a comparison of four versions if this ritual.