Pat Zalewski

Pat Zalewski (pronounced "Saleski") was born in Brisbane, Australia in 1948. He is a New Zealand based occultist, author, martial artist, and Golden Dawn scholar.
Early life and travels
He left Australia at age 18 for Rabaul, New Guinea. He traveled up the Sepik and Fly rivers, lived briefly in Bougainville. He learned to dive under George Tyers, an experienced Rabaul wreck diver, and was one of the first to dive in the area known as "George's wreck" in the mid 1960's.
Zalewski obtained a brown belt in karate in 1965 under Tamio Tsuji, who later became the first Australian karate coach in 1968. He also had some brief martial arts training in and Qigong (Chi Kung) in Hong Kong and Macau, respectively. He lived briefly in Thailand where he met photo journalist Sean Flynn in the Kings Hotel. Flynn persuaded him to do a bout of Thai boxing for a bet. Later, Zalewski said of the match, "I jumped into the ring and a few minutes later got carried out and spent four days recovering. It was the fastest and hardest $200 I ever made." In 1969, he went to Ceylon then India, studying Tantric yoga under master Vivandatta before travelling to Nepal.
In 1969, he returned to Cairns, Australia, where he obtained his black belt in karate under instructor Hiro Tanaka, a former student of Gichin Funakoshi. In 1970, he moved to New Zealand, continuing his study of karate. He founded three clubs in Wellington and formed the New Zealand Seikukan Karate Association. By 1975, he was chosen to compete as a New Zealand team member in the IAKF World Karate Championships in Los Angeles.
Occult studies
In the mid-1970s, he was introduced to the teachings of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. He studied as a solo practitioner before running his own Golden Dawn Temple, initiating members from 0°0° to 5°6°. In 1979, he was introduced to Jack Taylor, a 7°4° Whare Ra. Jack became a chief along with Pat and his wife in a fully functioning Golden Dawn Order. Jack Taylor and other Whare Ra Adepts rigorously trained Pat in the First Order Rituals as well as in the higher grades of the Order. He was consequently initiated into the 6°5° and 7°=4° grades by Jack, rewording his oaths so that he could freely give what he received without restrictions of any kind.
During a period of intensive training with Jack Taylor and other Whare Ra Adepts, Pat took copious notes, writing down the Oral Tradition of Whare Ra for the first time. During his training, Pat managed to document much of the previously unwritten ritual instruction of Whare Ra.
In 1983, after an 18-month correspondence, Israel Regardie travelled to New Zealand to meet him. It was through the influence of Regardie that he started writing about the Golden Dawn, travelling a number of times to the United States to give Golden Dawn seminars.
Professor Robert Ellwood came to New Zealand in the late 1980s to research the Golden Dawn. After extensive investigation and meetings with ex members of the Whare Ra, he wrote a book entitled "Islands of the Dawn" about the history of both the Whare Ra Temple and the Thoth Hermes Temple. In the book, Elwood quotes Zalewski several times using material he obtained from personal interviews. He also used information from Zalewski's book, "Secret Inner Order Rituals of the Golden Dawn"
By 1995, Zalewski had moved from Wellington to Hastings. The Thoth Hermes temple was closed after initiating three people into the 7=4 level.
In 1997, Zalewski received his 5th dan in karate. In 2000, he was inducted into the New Zealand Martial Arts Hall of Fame and awarded the title of New Zealand Martial Arts Historian of the year for a series of articles in Martial Arts Magazine.
Pat's most famous work, entitled "Golden Dawn Rituals and Commentaries", contains much of the Oral Tradition of Whare Ra and is the most comprehensive Golden Dawn ritual book known to exist.
Australia
In 1999, Pat left New Zealand and returned to Australia, starting a temple in Cairns. The temple, Thoth Hermes 2, was co-run by himself and Sam Robinson. By 2003 this temple had promoted six people to the inner order level.
In 2002, Zalewski returned to New Zealand for an awards ceremony, receiving a 6th dan in karate and a 5th dan in . He also received a World Karate Union title of Karate Historian of the Year and the Australian title of Martial Arts Historian.
Recent work
In 2004 he started an Inner Order Correspondence Course and established an internet forum. He has a BA in History, Honours in History and a Masters of Philosophy in history from James Cook University.
In 2006, he returned to Golden Dawn seminar work in Montreal, Canada, where he gave a seminar at the Horus Temple No.2.
Bibliography
*Golden Dawn Rituals and Commentaries - ISBN 978-0-9823521-2-0
*Kabbalah of the Golden Dawn - ISBN 0-7858-1196-6
*Golden Dawn Enochian Magic (Llewellyn's High Magick Series) - ISBN 0-87542-898-3
*Z-5: Secret Teachings Of The Golden Dawn: Book I: The Neophyte Ritual (Llewellyn's Golden Dawn Series) - ISBN 0-87542-897-5
*Z-5, Secret Teachings Of The Golden Dawn: Book II, The Zelator Ritual 1=10 (Llewellyn's Golden Dawn Series)- # ISBN 0-87542-896-7
*Inner Order Teachings of the Golden Dawn - ISBN 1-870450-48-5
*Talismans and Evocations of the Golden Dawn - ISBN 1-870450-36-1
*The Equinox and Solstice Ceremonies of the Golden Dawn - ISBN 0-87542-899-1
*Secret Inner Order Rituals of the Golden Dawn-ISBN 0-9414-0465-X
*The Magical Tarot of the Golden Dawn-ISBN 978-1-904658-31-3.
* Alchemy and Golden Dawn Ritual - ISBN 978-0-9823521-8-2.

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