
	Where results make sense

Topic: Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

	The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
		A candidate for admission into the Golden Dawn had to acknowledge his or her belief in the existence of a 'supreme being', but the old Pagan gods were very welcome.
		The Golden Dawn was ahead of its time in recognising the importance of the feminine aspect of the divine, and was founded to include both men and women on a basis of perfect equality.
		It was on such dubious grounds that the Isis Urania Temple of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was established in London in 1888, with Westcott, Mathers and Dr. W.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/europe/goldawn.html (454 words)

	The Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn
		The Golden Dawn purports to be primary inheritor of the "Mysteries of the Rose and Cross", the foundational doctrines of Western esoteric philosophy, tracing its roots to the mystery religions of ancient Egypt and Greece, Mithraism, and Gnosticism.
		The Golden Dawn's Hermetic roots came together from the philosophies of the ancient Egyptians and Greeks, with Gnosticism and Neo-Platonism merging in the second and third century; with influence from the Moslem Sufis brought to Europe by Crusader orders; the Qabala—itself influenced by Neo-Platonism -- and alchemy, merging in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
		At its core, the philosophy of the Golden Dawn is one of perfectible humanism; that by use of the esoteric tools and techniques passed down from antiquity, a human being can advance in spiritual knowledge and magical power, and with hard work and discipline, come to control his or her own destiny.
	www.osogd.org /library/biscuits/history.html (6720 words)

	Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, in Egyptian costume, performs a ritual of Isis (not a Rite of the Golden Dawn).
		The original Order of the Golden Dawn (founded originally as "the Fraternity of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn") was a magical fraternity founded in London in 1888 by Dr.
		The "Golden Dawn," as it is commonly referred to, was probably the single greatest influence on 20th century western occultism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hermetic_Order_of_the_Golden_Dawn (683 words)

	Esoteric Order of the Golden Dawn - Questions & Answers About the Golden Dawn
		The Golden Dawn was not a magical order, as so many modern authors have tried to convey, but rather, it was a special initiatory fraternity that prepared the aspirant for practical magic in the higher grades of the Second (Inner) Order.
		This grade is the crowning point of the Golden Dawn grades in that it is related to "spirit," whereas the Outer grades are all related to a specific element.
		Based upon feelings that the Golden Dawn system was becoming moribund under the auspices of the Stella Matutina, Israel Regardie chose to break all previous oaths and publish all of the material that he had received from the Order as a member.
	esotericgoldendawn.com /tradition_questionsgd.htm (3104 words)

	Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn â“ FREE Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn Information \| Encyclopedia.com: Facts, ...
		Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn occult-oriented fraternal organization established by the Freemasons in England (1888), led by S. MacGregor Mathers (1854-1917).
		The order's rituals were derived from writings by Fred Hockley, and members had to demonstrate competence in mysticism.
		Its leading institution was the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, founded in 1888 for the betterment of mankind...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-GoldenDa.html (783 words)

	The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
		The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (or "Golden Dawn", as it is commonly referred to) is a tradition of magical theurgy and spiritual development.
		The original "Order of the Golden Dawn" was a magical fraternity founded in London in 1888 by Dr. William Wynn Westcott, a London physician and municipal coroner.
		According to its founders, the Golden Dawn was based on a charter from a supposedly ancient German Rosicrucian Lodge, which had written a coded record of their secret occult rituals into a document dubbed the Cipher Manuscripts.
	new-age-spirituality.com /philos/goldawn.html (2701 words)

	Golden Dawn Glossary
		In the Golden Dawn, the officer known as the Dadouchos consecrates with a Censer of incense.
		In the Golden Dawn, the letters of the name IAO are used to represent Isis, Apophis, and Osiris, or the cycle of life, death, and rebirth.
		In the Golden Dawn, the symbols that represent the tattvas are used for skrying.
	wolf.mind.net /library/ancient/qabala/kabgloss.htm (7421 words)

	The Manifesto of the Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn
		Our Order is a manifestation and heir of the Golden Dawn current -- that is, an autonomous entity, but one that draws upon the knowledge, experience, practices and spirit of the system of magical training and attainment developed by the original Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
		The practices of the Golden Dawn lodges were built upon the foundation of Hermetic and Qabalistic philosophy, though the outward form of their rituals and symbolism were sociologically derived and culturally biased.
		The original Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was steeped in the Protestant Christian mythology and symbolism that typified the era and the religious background of the original members.
	www.osogd.org /aboutUs.html (1680 words)

	Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn - Free Encyclopedia of Thelema (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The original Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was a magical fraternity founded in London in 1888 by Dr.
		Mathers was responsible for the Rosicrucian inner order of the Golden Dawn being established where practical magic was taught.
		Although the order is known as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn by practically every one, this was a name invented by Israel Regardie.
	www.egnu.org /thelema/index.php/Golden_Dawn (447 words)

	GoldenDawn
		The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was founded in 1888 in England by William Wynn Westcott, William Robert Woodman and Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, who were all Freemasons.
		In practice, Golden Dawn magic incorporates ritual, meditation and development of psychic abilities, using the symbols, gods and wisdom of all religions in order to express a single divine energy.
		The Golden Dawn maintained that by working through its rituals, teachings and travelling the psychic pathways described by the Tarot, it is possible to reach a state of divine enlightenment, even acquire great power.
	www.cosmictarot.co.uk /index_files/GoldenDawn.htm (677 words)

	W. B. Yeats and "A Vision": The Golden Dawn
		Although the Golden Dawn’s teachings were greatly diversified by elements from the paganism of Europe and Egypt, the Judaeo-Christian basis of its core teachings of Cabbala and Rosicrucianism was central.
		However, it should not be thought that the 'magic' of the Golden Dawn was primarily involved with casting spells or changing the outer world, as its focus was very much on raising the consciousness of the individual her or himself.
		The Outer Order, the Golden Dawn proper, involved no actual magic and was primarily concerned with using ritual to consolidate the theory studied by the aspirants and to explore and balance their elemental energies within the aspirant.
	www.yeatsvision.com /GD.html (3751 words)

	The Golden Dawn
		The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was the most influential occult group to emerge from the end of the nineteenth century occult revival.
		Like many other members of the Golden Dawn, he had a passion for reworking and translating some of the Medieval Grimoires, and a great deal of his time was spent researching in the British Library.
		The hierarchical structure of the Golden Dawn was divided into ten degrees, based on the ten degrees of the Sephiroth from the Qabalah (Kabbalah).
	www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk /occult/golden_dawn.html (867 words)

	Byzant Scriptorium - The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
		The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn is the best known and most influential modern magical order, and though it lasted less than a dozen years, its legacy has played a major role in the magical revival of the twentieth century.
		On 1st March, 1888, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was established with the opening of the Isis-Urania Temple at 17 Fitzroy Street, London.
		The Order was arranged in a hierarchy of eleven degrees through which initiates could progress: the neophyte degree followed by ten further degrees corresponding to the sefirot on the Kabbalistic Tree of Life.
	www.byzant.com /Mystical/Scriptorium/GoldenDawn.aspx (731 words)

	The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
		The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was a complex body of teaching and ritual magical practice brought together Kabbalistic cosmology, the Rosicrucian initiation system, ritual magic, Egyptology, astrology, tarot, and various other such magical and occult streams.
		Mathers and Wescott did such a good job that the influence of the Golden Dawn is still felt today; indeed, together with Blavatsky's Theosophy, the Golden Dawn was one of the parents of the contemporary Western esotericism.
		Thelemic Order of the Golden Dawn - a New Order of the Golden Dawn, the Thelemic Order of the Golden Dawn (Order of the T.·.G.·.D.·.) is a Magical-Religious-Scientific Order dedicated to the teachings of Aleister Crowley.
	www.kheper.net /topics/Hermeticism/GoldenDawn.htm (733 words)

	Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn® in Britain - H.O.G.D. in Britain
		For the last decade, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn® has been operating in the birthplace of the original order.
		This modern expression is a School of the Soul, which balances the seeker and provides him or her with the Hermetic knowledge and experience required to walk the path of magic.
		The Order uses the traditional methods of the Golden Dawn to help an individual to know themselves and to bring about change in their lives.
	www.hogd.co.uk /hogd_britain.htm (287 words)

	Modern Rosicrucian groups
		Among else, he was chartered by Westcott of HOGD, John Yarker [1833-1913] of the Memphis-Mizraim, and a co-founder of Leopold Engel [1858-1931] in the revived Illuminati Order.
		Order of the Temple & the Graal and of the Catholic Order of the Rose-Croix (l'Ordre de la Rose Croix Catholique et Esthetique, du Temple et du Graal) (CRC) ('Catholic', as in 'Universal') was established by Josephine Peladan [1858-1918] in 1890.
		The structure of the order is changed and the office of Imperator is redefined; all the Grand Masters of each jurisdictions being the members of the Supreme Council electing the Imperator on a 5 years term.
	www.levity.com /alchemy/rosi_grp.html (8363 words)

	[No title]
		There were several precursors to the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn that combined Alchemy and Kabbalah in their work.
		The most influential of these groups was the early Rosicrucian Order, the 'Order of the Gold and Rose Cross.' British occultist Kenneth MacKenzie (born October 31, 1833) was initiated into a branch of the Order in France and brought to England a manuscript outlining the Order's nine grades of attainment.
		The stated purpose of the Golden Dawn was to aid its members to test, purify and exalt the individual's spiritual nature so as to unify it with his or her Holy Guardian Angel.
	www.angelfire.com /nt/dragon9/GOLDENDAWN.html (1384 words)

	Guardians of the True Golden Dawn Tradition
		Our Order, the Esoteric Order of the Golden Dawn, remains true to the classical tradition.
		Our Order provides the sincere seeker the opportunity to become part of a worldwide fraternity with Golden Dawn temples, sanctuaries and study groups throughout the US, Canada and Europe.
		Our Order remains the only Order that continues to provide long distance initiations where no Golden Dawn temple is nearby.
	www.esotericgoldendawn.com (180 words)

	AllRefer.com - Golden Dawn, Hermetic Order of the (Miscellaneous Religion) - Encyclopedia
		Golden Dawn, Hermetic Order of the, Miscellaneous Religion
		Golden Dawn, Hermetic Order of the, occult-oriented fraternal organization established by the Freemasons in England (1888), led by S. MacGregor Mathers (1854–1917).
		The order's rituals were derived from writings by Fred Hockley, and members had to demonstrate competence in mysticism.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/G/GoldenDa.html (220 words)

	Surfsteve's Forums - Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
		The trail is often obscured by the fact that the Golden Dawn was highly secretive in its formative years (and remains largely secretive today) and thus many of its masters and adepts lived and died in total obscurity.
		We initiates of the Golden Dawn believe that the Society of the Rose Cross pre-dated the Golden Dawn and that the Order is essentially a Rosicrucian affair, founded to train adepts for entrance into the College of the Rose Cross.
		The Golden Dawn current that surfaced in England was largely the work of Freemasons and in the case of Freemasonry there is no question about the authenticity of their Rosicrucian Society.
	www.surfsteve.com /forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3091 (1398 words)

	Thelemapedia: The Encyclopedia of Thelema & Magick \| Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
		One of the conditions of initiation in the original "Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn" was that inductees were obligated to keep the actual name of the group secret.
		The "Golden Dawn," as it is commonly referred to, was probably the single greatest influence on twentieth-century western occultism.
		Even the supposedly de novo Chaos magick pursued by the magical order of the Illuminates of Thanateros is arguably indebted to Golden Dawn magic, and the latter remains the spiritual core of nearly all of the more ceremonial branches of western magic.
	www.thelemapedia.org /index.php/Hermetic_Order_of_the_Golden_Dawn (293 words)

	Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
		Such was the arrangement of the hierarchy of the Isis-Urania Temple of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn established in 1888.
		During its glory, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn possessed one of the greatest repositories of Western magical knowledge.
		The rise and fall of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn is thought, by some, to portray the history of many occult groups.
	www.themystica.com /mystica/articles/h/hermetic_order_of_the_golden_dawn.html (1256 words)

	traditions Hermetic Order of the Nascent Dawn Grand Lodge International
		The Nascent Dawn of 1807 was Gold R+C. The later continuation of this rite, the Rosae Rubae et Aureae Crucis utilized the same grade structure of the German Gold R+C in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
		The practices of the Golden Dawn were founded upon Hermetic and Kabalistic philosophy, through the outward forms of their rituals, of ceremonial magic.
		Mathers stated that he received the Golden Dawn rituals from the "most pure Rosicrucian sources, even though these Mysteries are found somewhat modified in their exterior form, for reason of tribe and culture." They were modified for Victorian sensibilities.
	www.cairns.net.au /~fatfredy/SAM/website/traditions.htm (681 words)

	Golden Dawn - Ordo Stella Matutina
		The Ordo Stella Matutina is a Golden Dawn
		The Hermetic Sanctuary of Ma'at (HSoM)- or "Virtual Sanctuary"- exists in cyberspace and provides OSM initiates worldwide with resources and a means to communicate with their instructors and other members.
		Hermetic Sanctuary of Ma'at: Ordo Stella Matutina ® 2001 - 2007.
	www.ritual-magic.com (710 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)