We present here an exceedingly rare manuscript version of the Golden Dawn document entitled ‘Polygons and Polygrams’, intended it may at first seem for the curriculum of the 4=7 Philosophus Grade. Although printed versions of it have been published in Israel Regardie’s two separate collections of Golden Dawn papers in both cases these contain serious errors and omissions. Similarly, the diagrams provided lack some of the requisite detail and, in comparison to those presented here, appear to be crudely executed.
More importantly, they are in black and white whereas this manuscript provides beautifully coloured images, hand coloured in different inks. There is some evidence to suggest that this copy of the Polygons and Polygrams was intended not for the Outer or First Order Grade of Philosophus 4=7, to which it was originally issued in line drawings, but rather to the more senior Adepts of the Second Order, the Ordo Rosae Rubeae et Aureae Crucis.
