I was reading a review of the book, What You Should Know About the Golden Dawn at Amazon, and the reviewer wrote:
"This is a great book, except for the nonsense and recruitment stuff found at the end. At a certain point, Regardie's writing ends and there are several essays written by people defending their organization (though it does not seem very easy to defend after reading what really happened to the Order of the Golden Dawn). If you are wondering why the same book written by Regardie from '82 or '72 is completely different from the edited and annotated version from '94 or 2004; then this book should explain what happened. After his death in '84 certain publishers began to butcher this great man's work. "The Tree of Life" from after the year 2000, for example is filled with illustrations not even found in the original, weird illustrations (earlier editions after '84 are liable to have similar corruptions, unless of course you try to get a solid Weiser edition)."
I can't tell if they are talking about the book being reviewed or Regardie's 4-volume The Golden Dawn. I have seen an earlier version of The Golden Dawn (hardback 4 volumes in 2 books, 3rd edition, 1970) and I now have a paperback version that is a 6th edition 1989, 8th printing 1998 and I can't tell any difference. They are organized a bit differently and the paperback has an index, but the Tree of Life is the same and there are no 'weird illustrations' that aren't in the earlier one. Does anyone have a clue what this reviewer is talking about?