944 – Witch wand based on Golden Dawn design

Physical description:

Golden Dawn ritual staff - red and blue with Maltese Cross in red, blue, black and yellow.

Museum classification:

Ritual Magic

Size:

1000 x 100 x 30 mm

Information:

This is not a Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn wand (even though it looks like one).  This is a witch's version of a Golden Dawn wand.  It has not been inscribed with the Latin motto of its maker (which it would have been if it was a consecrated Golden Dawn object).

This is a version of the Golden Dawn Wand called Maltese Cross Sceptre or the Praemonstrator’s Wand: ‘the elements in balance’  Israel Regardie (see object 1414 for a Golden Dawn version).

See archive document below for more details.  

Archive Document Number: 7297 (typed interpretation panel written by Cecil Williamson):

Summary of content:

Two witch wands copied from the instructions laid down in the rituals of the Golden Dawn, one in the form of a Maltese cross and gold circle, the other in the form of a black star. Both hand-made by Mary Sims of Cheltenham, and presented to the one-time museum of witchcraft at Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire.

The interpretation card above suggests that this wand was originally a Maltese Cross with a gold circle.  There is no gold circle in the Golden Dawn design.  The object in the Museum collection no longer has a gold circle around it either but its construction suggests that it is a partner for object number 1425 (witch wand with hexagram) .  This also contains "mistakes".  The shape (hexagram) is a Golden Dawn design but the colour is 'wrong'. An accurate version of a Golden Dawn hexagram wand is object number 1413. 

Resource:

Object

Materials:

Wood, metal

Copyright ownership:

MWM

This is not a Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn wand (even though it looks like one).  This is a witch's version of a Golden Dawn wand.  It has not been inscribed with the Latin motto of its maker (which it would have been if it was a consecrated Golden Dawn object).

This is a version of the Golden Dawn Wand called Maltese Cross Sceptre or the Praemonstrator’s Wand: ‘the elements in balance’  Israel Regardie (see object 1414 for a Golden Dawn version).

See archive document below for more details.  

Archive Document Number: 7297 (typed interpretation panel written by Cecil Williamson):

Summary of content:

Two witch wands copied from the instructions laid down in the rituals of the Golden Dawn, one in the form of a Maltese cross and gold circle, the other in the form of a black star. Both hand-made by Mary Sims of Cheltenham, and presented to the one-time museum of witchcraft at Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire.

The interpretation card above suggests that this wand was originally a Maltese Cross with a gold circle.  There is no gold circle in the Golden Dawn design.  The object in the Museum collection no longer has a gold circle around it either but its construction suggests that it is a partner for object number 1425 (witch wand with hexagram) .  This also contains "mistakes".  The shape (hexagram) is a Golden Dawn design but the colour is 'wrong'. An accurate version of a Golden Dawn hexagram wand is object number 1413.