Hermetic Yoga for the Golden Dawn is created from secret documents and diagrams from the Golden Dawn's founding Cypher Manuscript. It is a modern Flying Roll, a biblical term the G.D. used for its advanced teachings. In this case the author suggests that diagrams and text in the cypher mabnuscript derived from from the seventeenth century kabbalist Isaac Luria suggesting that a seven chakra yoga system be developed on the Lurianic Eleven Sphere version of the Tree of Life referred to as "The Tree Before the Fall". This syustem is initiated by the Flaming Sword or Lightning Flash which descends from the mouth of God in Kether as described in Revelation 1 - 16 and activates the chakras corosponding to the seven planets and the spheres on the Tree of Life (the macrocosm) within the human body (the microcosm). Unlike Eastern systems it derives its power by bringing down the Light. In this way it is similar and probably related to the Stella Matutina's Middle Pillar exercise. Which inspired the author to create his original version of the restored Western system for the Crata Repoa Reformatus of the Church of the Hermetic Sciences of which he is the founding president and magister. He is also the author of Secrets of The Golden Dawn Cypher Manuscript (1997-2014) and the Imperator of Ma'at Temple of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in Los Angeles, California. Runyon's original version of Hermetic Yoga is fully described in two volumes: hermetic Yoga, Beyond the Middle Pillar, Volume One, The Interior Stars of the Western Esoteric Tradition (2015) and Beyond The Middle Pillar, Volume Two, Rosicrucian Yoga (2020). This original system is not interchangable with the Golden Dawn version outlined in the Flying Roll. Volume One was developed to support Solomonic magical practice and features a Canaanite pantheon of deities from King Solomon's time period, whereas the Golden Dawn version in the Flying roll incorporates ancient Egyptian godforms on the Heliopolis Ennead arrangement favored in the ancient Pyramid Texts. The Flying Roll includes a modified copy of the author's Master Ritual from Hermetic Yoga, Volume One to assist in Yoga practice. Also included are a modified version of the G.D. Polygrams and Polygons from a 1977 issue of the Seventh Ray. These icons were derived from "Essay on the Lineal Figures" by Frater A.M.A.G. (1935), another Golden Dawn document in the author's collection. He has also included mantras based on G.D. finger attributions. The Head on the cover was designed by the author and constructed by Maximilian Paul (V.H. Frater SithMeth VIIo Crate Repoa Reformatus) The Preface is by Frater Ex Oriente LVX, Worshipful Merrick Rees Hamer, Premonstrator of the Ma'at Temple of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. A Review of Runyon, Hermetic Yoga for the Golden Dawn (2022) Carroll “Poke” Runyon has been making always interesting and sometimes provocative contributions to the modern discourse on the Western Esoteric Tradition for many years, and he continues to do so with Hermetic Yoga for the Golden Dawn. To avoid confusion, it should be noted that Runyon has published this text under his Motto or Magical Name (“G.H. Frater Quero ad Lucem”) as one of the chiefs of an independent Golden Dawn temple in Los Angeles. It is also important to note that the prospective reader should not be put off by the slimness of this text (20 pages), as it is not meant to be a full book, but rather to present a new Flying Roll, an unofficial teaching monograph intended to be circulated among the Adepts of the Inner Order R.·.R.·.et A.·.C.·., and its length is entirely appropriate for such a Roll. In his monograph, which is entitled “The Flaming Sword and the Divine Genius,” Runyon follows the centuries-old Qabbalistic practice of discovering or rediscovering a variant form of the Tree of Life and deriving teachings from it which only that form of the Tree can reveal. He extracts his Eleven-Sphere Tree of Life from one of the Ilanoth diagrams in Rosenroth’s Kabbala Denudata (the same complex Ilan which is the source of several of the Qabbalistic diagrams presented in various grades of the Outer Order). Runyon finds validation for the use of this Eleven-Center Tree in the white panel of the lid of the Pastos in the Adeptus Minor Grade, and in a sketch for a grade diagram in the Cypher Manuscripts. With Daath promoted to the status of a full Sephirah, the variant Tree must realign its 22 connecting Paths, and the result produces a harmoniously symmetrical pattern, but at the cost of deleting all three horizontal Paths directly connecting the Pillars of Mercy and Severity. After explaining the Eleven-Sphere Tree and its sources, the bulk of the Flying Roll consists of a Yogic ritual involving the descent of energy through a linear version of the Tree, conceived of as the central shaft of the Caduceus, followed by a Kun. d. alinī-style raising of the Malkhuth Dragon. In the first part of the practice, the Adept invoke