Nick Farrell
Nick Farrell was born 1965 in Banbury in the UK. His family moved to New Zealand. He joined Golden Dawn offshoot called Builders of the Adytum before moving o Hawkes Bay where he hooked up with the former members of the last surviving temple of the Golden Dawn, Whare Ra. He joined the Order of the Table Round which was a side order of the now defunct Whare Ra temple. He moved to the UK to take part in practical work of the SOL and found himself being trained by David Goddard. In 1997, He joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn forming a Temple of that Group in Nottingham. He followed the Cicero’s Golden Dawn curriculum from Neophyte to ZAM. In 2008 he moved to Rome and established the Magical Order of the Aurora Aurea.
Read it. Interesting rituals. Weak commentary. It’s unfortunate that an author who does not understand Freemasonry feels equipped to comment on it.
I think ten years in an esoteric masonic lodge in Great Queen Street equip me me pretty well.
Sorry, what kind of masonic lodge? Is that recognised by the Grand United Lodge of England?
Yeah Grand Lodge is in Great Queen Street… my lodge had a room in there, which was very nice.
So, then, why do you downplay the value of masonic initiation so much in your commentary. I do understand that it is different, but I don’t believe it is ineffectual.
Because you cannot compare like with like. A masonic initiation is interesting and moving… (you can tell what is being stimulated). A magical one, done properly, hits every part of you.
Masonic is more gentle and probably effective over a longer time. A magical initiation should be much more intense and its effects more sudden.
It is difficult to describe if you have not been in a decent magical initiation. The book talks about how the GD started with a similar approach to masonry… then it became more magical. I think that it reached its height with Whare Ra and to a lesser extent with Brodie Innes’s AO.