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College—secrets which orthodox Freemasonry had long since lost. The documents also provided a link with a continental order which seemed to possess even deeper secrets and provided the address of a high initiate named Fräulein Anna Sprengel in Ingolstadt, Bavaria.
The lection went on to tell how Robert Wentworth Little and various other London Freemasons, guided by Fräulein Sprengel, began the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, originally admitting as members only those who were already high-degree Masons. Using the techniques learned from Miss Sprengel and the ciphered documents, they gradually recreated the whole working repertoire of Cabalistic occultism underlying the Rosy Cross order of Freemasonry and sought earnestly to establish astral contact with the Higher Intelligences on other planes who could gradually educate and guide them in the risky transition from the domesticated apehood of historical humanity to a higher stage on the evolutionary scale.
This “History Lection” went on to assert that such contact had been established and that the Golden Dawn was now operating under astral guidance. It added ominously that students should beware of several impostors who had seized upon the name of the order and were operating false Golden Dawns of their own devoted to diabolism and black magick. Among these heretics, who seemed to number nearly a dozen—when the original Golden Dawn split into factions, it split violently, Sir John gathered—two names particularly struck Sir John because of their resonant roll: MacGregor Mathers and Aleister Crowley.
Q: Was the resonance of these names an accident?
A: It was not. The former individual had been born Samuel Liddell Mathers and had decided, when embarking on the paths of Magick, that Samuel Mathers, Sam Mathers, S. L. Mathers, S. Liddell Mathers were all unsuitable and unglamorous names for a Magician; he had therefore taken the more sonorous cognomen of MacGregor Mathers. The latter individual, similarly, had been born Edward Alexander Crowley and found also that the various permutations of that appellation were too prosaic for the career heintended; after profound research and much thought he concluded that the name “Jeremy Taylor” was the most memorable in English because of its rhythm. Wishing to appropriate that rhythm, he re-dubbed himself Aleister Crowley.
Q: Quote a standard reference on the history of the Golden Dawn so as to convey maximum information without exceeding the legal limits of fair usage and with least possible prejudice toward one faction or another.
A: “The Golden Dawn was the most influential of the many occult secret societies founded in the nineteenth century. It first came into existence in 1887-88 and was founded on the basis of certain cipher manuscripts allegedly discovered in London which described five rituals of initiation…. Early in the 1890s, however, the nature of the Golden Dawn was transformed by one of its leaders, S. L. MacGregor Mathers, who claimed to have contacted the ‘Secret Chiefs,’ the invisible and highly evolved superhumans who form, occultists aver, the secret government of our planet.” Francis King, Introduction to
Crowley on Christ
, C. W. Daniel Co., London, 1974.
Q: Provide further information on the origins of the tradition of mystical Masonry.
A: “However, the Egyptian Masons are more closely involved with the Grand Orient Lodge of France … which was originally set up by Weishaupt’s Illuminati, and which is closely associated with the Society of Jacobins…. One secret Illuminatus and Jacobin was Guiseppe Balsamo, alias Cagliostro, who … bequeathed certain MSS. to his followers of the Egyptian sect, including excerpts from the original
Necronomicon
…. The text of the
Necronomicon
… reached them via the Arabs of Spain … goes back to the Persians … and links up with Babylonian magic and the Hermetic tradition of the Egyptian priesthood of Thoth.” Letter from Dr. Stanislaus
The lection went on to tell how Robert Wentworth Little and various other London Freemasons, guided by Fräulein Sprengel, began the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, originally admitting as members only those who were already high-degree Masons. Using the techniques learned from Miss Sprengel and the ciphered documents, they gradually recreated the whole working repertoire of Cabalistic occultism underlying the Rosy Cross order of Freemasonry and sought earnestly to establish astral contact with the Higher Intelligences on other planes who could gradually educate and guide them in the risky transition from the domesticated apehood of historical humanity to a higher stage on the evolutionary scale.
This “History Lection” went on to assert that such contact had been established and that the Golden Dawn was now operating under astral guidance. It added ominously that students should beware of several impostors who had seized upon the name of the order and were operating false Golden Dawns of their own devoted to diabolism and black magick. Among these heretics, who seemed to number nearly a dozen—when the original Golden Dawn split into factions, it split violently, Sir John gathered—two names particularly struck Sir John because of their resonant roll: MacGregor Mathers and Aleister Crowley.
Q: Was the resonance of these names an accident?
A: It was not. The former individual had been born Samuel Liddell Mathers and had decided, when embarking on the paths of Magick, that Samuel Mathers, Sam Mathers, S. L. Mathers, S. Liddell Mathers were all unsuitable and unglamorous names for a Magician; he had therefore taken the more sonorous cognomen of MacGregor Mathers. The latter individual, similarly, had been born Edward Alexander Crowley and found also that the various permutations of that appellation were too prosaic for the career heintended; after profound research and much thought he concluded that the name “Jeremy Taylor” was the most memorable in English because of its rhythm. Wishing to appropriate that rhythm, he re-dubbed himself Aleister Crowley.
Q: Quote a standard reference on the history of the Golden Dawn so as to convey maximum information without exceeding the legal limits of fair usage and with least possible prejudice toward one faction or another.
A: “The Golden Dawn was the most influential of the many occult secret societies founded in the nineteenth century. It first came into existence in 1887-88 and was founded on the basis of certain cipher manuscripts allegedly discovered in London which described five rituals of initiation…. Early in the 1890s, however, the nature of the Golden Dawn was transformed by one of its leaders, S. L. MacGregor Mathers, who claimed to have contacted the ‘Secret Chiefs,’ the invisible and highly evolved superhumans who form, occultists aver, the secret government of our planet.” Francis King, Introduction to
Crowley on Christ
, C. W. Daniel Co., London, 1974.
Q: Provide further information on the origins of the tradition of mystical Masonry.
A: “However, the Egyptian Masons are more closely involved with the Grand Orient Lodge of France … which was originally set up by Weishaupt’s Illuminati, and which is closely associated with the Society of Jacobins…. One secret Illuminatus and Jacobin was Guiseppe Balsamo, alias Cagliostro, who … bequeathed certain MSS. to his followers of the Egyptian sect, including excerpts from the original
Necronomicon
…. The text of the
Necronomicon
… reached them via the Arabs of Spain … goes back to the Persians … and links up with Babylonian magic and the Hermetic tradition of the Egyptian priesthood of Thoth.” Letter from Dr. Stanislaus
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