Hailed as one of the most important figures in twentieth-century Western mysticism, Dr. Israel Regardie was a therapist and chiropractor who practiced a form of psychotherapy based on the work of Dr. Wilhelm Reich. A student of the Bhagavad Gita, Buddhism, Madame Blavatsky's theosophy, and yoga, Regardie was the author of seventeen books including "The Golden Dawn," a monumental study of Western magical ritual.