The Ritual for the Evocation Unto Visible Appearance of The Great Spirit Taphthartharath (1911)
Selected Essays of Allan Bennett, Bhikkhu Ananda Metteyya - (Volume 2 of Allan Bennett, Bhikkhu Ananda Metteyya: Biography and Collected Writings) - Elizabeth J. Harris
Allan Bennett [+]
Allan Bennett (1872-1923) was one of the first British men to gain higher ordination as a Buddhist monk and one of the seminal figures in the development of Buddhism in the UK.
Description
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.