A debate erupted on Facebook about the necessity of the Golden Dawn initiations. Over the years there have been various suggestions that various grades are un-necessary and you can do Golden Dawn magic (usually the ritual material at the 5=6 grade) without doing the outer order. One argument goes that the Golden Dawn founders Mathers […]
The latest issue of Watchers of the Dawn brings up an interesting issue of what happens when you tell other people your Grade. This week both Martin Thibeault and David Griffin announced that they held high Golden Dawn grades. Martin said he was a 9=2 and David said that his order offered teaching up to […]
Beyond the Sun – the secret teachings of the Missing Golden Dawn Order (click to order) “This book contains the Secret Inner Order Teachings of the missing order of the Golden Dawn – Whare Ra. Whare Ra managed to keep secret and above all keep running long after the other Golden Dawn magical orders had given […]
I am famous for being blunt and the headline statement will get a few people upset. I have said over a number of years that I do not believe that astral initiation into the Golden Dawn work, but have not said why. I would LOVE astral initiation to work. As the head of an order, […]
The Golden Dawn Temple Deck by Harry Wendrich The modern Golden Dawn has a bit of a problem with using the reversed pentagram due to some very mixed messages about its use by its founder Samuel Mathers. Mathers firstly tells students that it is an evil symbol and you should not use it, however later […]
There is a move afoot within the Golden Dawn community to liberate the name Golden Dawn from a deluded bunch of Greek Nazis who, in the popular mind, have taken it over. In actual fact this confusion has come from the fact that the Western Press have translated the name of the Nazi political party […]
Samuel Mathers One little known aspect of Samuel Mathers’ life was his love of what these days is called wargaming. Wargaming is like chess, only it involves the accurate depiction of a battle using toy soldiers on a realistic looking miniature battlefield.For those who are not familiar with it, it is nuts. It looks […]
What follows is a paper I wrote in 2002 and ended up in Hermetic Virtues quite a while ago. I updated it in 2009 to include references to what we were doing in MOAA (we included part of this in our course work when we opened our 1=10 that year). Sorry for submitting something so […]
I have been reviewing all my tarot material lately as I gather information on a book I have been meaning to write for a while. What is interesting from a Golden Dawn perspective is how Samuel Mathers appears to have started well with the Tarot, but then clung on to some things within tarot to […]