“seven palaces”

• +..folk, drone, psychedelia.
• +..Um?
• +..Aethyreal

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The initiates of the Golden Dawn wanted to “see” the spiritual realm; they wanted to catch a glimpse of the Divine, and in this they were no different from other seekers after the Divine, whether “descenders to the Chariot” or the contemporary groupies who swirl around the Indian masters of Hinduism and Buddhism. The difference was not one of intention but of seriousness and personal commitment. The descenders to the Chariot were enjoined to lead pure lives of spiritual devotion — lives of sinlessness and adherence to the Law — and comprehensive and exhaustive sacred learning, as represented by the Torah and its commentaries and exegetical literature. This was not necessarily the case with the Golden Dawn, which placed its faith in the correct performance of the initiatory rituals in combination with the commitment of its initiates to the intellectual study of occult topics. One could be relatively certain that there were no Talmudic scholars among the effete English drawing-room membership of the Golden Dawn; if there were, they have yet to surface. Instead, the occultism studied by the members was pure occultism: alchemy, ceremonial magic, and the like.
Levenda, Peter. Stairway to Heaven