The Definitive Edition of a Timeless Classic This third edition of The Middle Pillar is more complete, more modern, and more usable than ever. Extensively edited and expanded by Chic Cicero and Sandra Tabatha Cicero, close friends of Regardie and Chief Adepts of the Golden Dawn, this classic work is highly accessible and relevant to today's practitioners. The exercise known as the Middle Pillar, created by the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, activates the five psychic centers on the Tree of Life's Middle Pillar. This exercise draws divine light through the body's energy centers, clearing and strengthening them for magic. Designed to bridge the divide between psychology and occultism, the Middle Pillar exercise was little-known until this book's first edition. Since then, it has become a mainstay of many Western traditions of magic. This edition features: • The complete original text with spelling standardized to Western traditions • The Ciceros's notes on each chapter • Clearer, modern illustrations • More than five techniques to enhance relaxation • The connection between the Middle Pillar and the chakras • How to charge talismans and do healings using the Middle Pillar • Egyptian, Greek, Gaelic, and shamanic versions of the Middle Pillar rite The Middle Pillar is a step-by-step, accessible examination and extension of the single ritual that has become the very embodiment of magic. Sixty to seventy years ago the validity of psychology as a science was hotly contested. A young Israel Regardie took another debated subject, magic, and showed that it could be seen as a subdivision of psychology. He even said psychotherapists could use techniques of magic in a clinical setting for the benefit of patients. In his classic book, The Middle Pillar, he reveals both the techniques that could be used and how they could benefit psychologists. The Middle Pillar exercise has also become one of the most important rituals in all of Western magic. As such, there has been much growth in the practice of this exercise over the years. That's why I'm pleased that Chic and Sandra Tabatha Cicero have added an incredible amount of notes to the complete original text in this book and more than doubled its size with new contributions not published elsewhere. Now, the third edition of The Middle Pillar is the best, most complete ever. Read the Ciceros's notes for a fuller understanding of the original text. Then read their new material, filled with meditations, exercises, and rituals you can use. Beyond a doubt, this is now the definitive version of The Middle Pillar. Get your copy today. Sixty to seventy years ago the validity of psychology as a science was hotly contested. A young Israel Regardie took another debated subject, magic, and showed that it could be seen as a subdivision of psychology. He even said psychotherapists could use techniques of magic in a clinical setting for the benefit of patients. In his classic book, The Middle Pillar, he reveals both the techniques that could be used and how they could benefit psychologists. The Middle Pillar exercise has also become one of the most important rituals in all of Western magic. As such, there has been much growth in the practice of this exercise over the years. That's why I'm pleased that Chic and Sandra Tabatha Cicero have added an incredible amount of notes to the complete original text in this book and more than doubled its size with new contributions not published elsewhere. Now, the third edition of The Middle Pillar is the best, most complete ever. Read the Ciceros's notes for a fuller understanding of the original text. Then read their new material, filled with meditations, exercises, and rituals you can use. Beyond a doubt, this is now the definitive version of The Middle Pillar. Get your copy today. Francis I. Regardie, born in London, England, November 17, 1907; died in Sedona, Arizona, March 10, 1985.  Came to the United States in August 1921, educated in Washington D.C. and studied art in school in Washington and Philadelphia.  Returned to Europe in 1928 at the invitation of Aleister Crowley to work as his secretary and study with him.  Returned to London as secretary to Thomas Burke 1932-34, and during that time wrote A Garden of Pomegranates and The Tree of Life . In 1934 he was invited to join the Order of the Golden Dawn, Stella Matutina Temple, during which time he wrote The Middle Pillar and The Art of True Healing , and did the basic work for The Philosopher's Stone . Returning to the United States in 1937 he entered Chiropractic College in New York, Graduating in 1941, and published The Golden Dawn.  Served in the U.S. Army 1942-1945, and then moved to Los Angeles where he opened a chiropractic practice and taught psychiatry.  Upon retirement in 1981, he moved to Sedona. During his lifetime, he studied psychoanalysis with Dr. E. Clegg and Dr. J. L. Bendit, and later studied psychotherapy under Dr. Nandor Fo