Golden Dawn Series: a facsimile of the original 'Magia de Profundis' magical manuscript by leading 19th century occultist Frederick Hockley
Contents include seals and talismans for the planetary spirits. Hockley (1809-1885), was an occultist and Freemason with an interest in Spiritualism who in later life was associated with the S.R.I.A. or Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia.
Hockley’s peers considered him to be one of the great occult scholars of his time in fact he was held in such high regard by one of the founders of the Golden Dawn, W. Wynn Westcott, that he posthumously claimed Hockley as one of the Order’s most outstanding Adepts.
Unlike some of his other manuscripts, which were commissioned for sale by the bookseller John Denley, this was presumably prepared by Hockley for his own use, various pencil markings and spirit drawings of seals suggest that it was a private manuscript in which he recorded his own early adventures into workings with planetary spirits and entit
