Francis Israel Regardie (/rɪˈɡɑːrdi/; né Regudy; November 17, 1907 – March 10, 1985) was an English and American occultist, ceremonial magician, and writer who spent much of his life in the United States. He wrote fifteen books on the subject of occultism.
Born to a working-class Orthodox Jewish family in the East End of London, Regardie and his family soon moved to Washington, D.C., in the United States. Regardie rejected Orthodox Judaism during his teenage years and took an interest in Theosophy, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jewish mysticism. It was through his interest in yoga that he encountered the writings of the occultist Aleister Crowley. Contacting Crowley, he was invited to serve as the occultist's secretary, necessitating a move to Paris, France in 1928. He followed Crowley to England before their association ended. Living in England, he wrote two books on the Qabalah, A Garden of Pomegranates and The Tree of Life. In 1934 he then joined the Stella Matutina—a ceremonial magic order descended from the defunct Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn—but grew dissatisfied with its leadership and left. He also studied psychology, being particularly influenced by ideas from Jungian psychology, and explored Christian mysticism.
In 1937 he returned to the United States. Concerned that the Golden Dawn system of ceremonial magic would be lost, he published the Stella Matutina rituals in a series of books between 1938 and 1940. This entailed breaking his oath of secrecy and brought anger from many other occultists. During the Second World War he served in the U.S. Army. On returning to the U.S., he gained a doctorate in psychology before relocating to Los Angeles in 1947 and setting up practice as a chiropractor. In 1981 he retired and moved to Sedona, Arizona, where he died of a heart attack four years later.
Francis IsraelRegardie (/rɪˈɡɑːrdi/; né Regudy; November 17, 1907 – March 10, 1985) was an English and American occultist, ceremonial magician, and writer...
Cicero was also a close personal friend and confidant of the late Dr. IsraelRegardie. Having established a temple in the tradition of the Hermetic Order...
table of magical correspondences. It was edited and introduced by Dr. IsraelRegardie, and is a reference book based on the Hermetic Qabalah. The Golden...
Ceremonial Magic as revealed to IsraelRegardie with further revision, expansion, and additional notes by IsraelRegardie, Chris Monnastre, and others,...
LCCN 2016050178. Regardie, Israel (1970). "The Literal Qabalah". A Garden of Pomegranates. Llewellyn. ISBN 0-87542-690-5. Regardie, Israel (1986). The Eye...
Mystic Rose or Order of the M.R. in the Outer. When occult writer IsraelRegardie released documents of the Golden Dawn to the public it was the teachings...
exist. He became so synonymous with the order that Golden Dawn scholar IsraelRegardie observed in retrospect that "the Golden Dawn was MacGregor Mathers...
Belial, and Othiel. Crowley (who calls them "Orders of Qliphoth") and IsraelRegardie list the qlippoth as Thaumiel, Ghogiel, Satariel, Agshekeloh, Golohab...
Press. ISBN 0-89281-607-4. Hyatt, Christopher S. (2002). The Magic of IsraelRegardie (Audio CD). New Falcon Publishing. OL 12127101M. King, Francis X. (1971)...
Element. ISBN 978-1852306823. Regardie, Israel (1972). The Tree of Life. Samuel Weiser, Inc. ISBN 978-0877281498. Regardie, Israel (1995). A Garden of Pomegranates:...
several well-known champions of consciousness expansion, including IsraelRegardie, Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, and Antero Alli. Hyatt also co-founded...
temple and extending his American connections. According to occultist IsraelRegardie, the Golden Dawn had spread to the United States of America before...
occult traditions, and pseudoscience. In the introduction written by IsraelRegardie, Wilson's purpose for writing the book is given as unleashing humanity's...
having been properly heard by Crowley during the supposed dictation. IsraelRegardie proposed that Coph Nia could have been intended to represent Ain Soph...
Cicero, Self-Initiation into the Golden Dawn tradition, Chapter 1 IsraelRegardie, revised by Chic and Sandra Tabatha Cicero. The Tree of Life: an Illustrated...
777. Weiser Books. June 1986. p. 2. ISBN 0-87728-670-1. Table VIII. IsraelRegardie (1970). The Golden Dawn. Llewellyn Worldwide. p. 82. ISBN 0-87542-663-8...
A Garden of Pomegranates is a 160-page book, written by IsraelRegardie in 1931. The first edition was published in 1932. The book was printed four times...
specified in Crowley's letters from the 1940s. His witnesses were Dr. IsraelRegardie (1907–1985) and Gerald Yorke, who both offered their support. Parsons...
ISBN 978-0913576076. Regardie, Israel, ed. (1973). Magick Without Tears. St. Paul: Llewellyn Publications. ISBN 978-0875421155. Regardie, Israel, ed. (1973)....
William Wynn Westcott (1848–1925), Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), and IsraelRegardie (1907–1985) have contributed as guardians and commentators. As magicians...
Ethiopic Book Of Enoch (1982 reprint ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. IsraelRegardie (1989). The Golden Dawn. Llewellyn Worldwide. p. 82. ISBN 0-87542-663-8...
F. Dale, 2009 P299 (and throughout) of The Complete Goldendawn by IsraelRegardie. ISBN 978-0875426631 The History and Practice of Magic (Secaucus, NJ:...
his 1983 introduction to Robert Anton Wilson's Prometheus Rising, IsraelRegardie writes, "Once I was even so presumptuous as to warn (Wilson) in a letter...
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