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Are they linked to Freemasonry?
Anyone familiar, give me a breakdown.
Anyone familiar, give me a breakdown.
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What is Golden Dawn initiation like?
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You can read and compare the entirety of the initiation in Israel Regardie's infamously nicknamed Black Brick also known as The Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic.
That book contains the majority of the information known on the Hermetic Order of the the Golden Dawn.
That book contains the majority of the information known on the Hermetic Order of the the Golden Dawn.
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For visualization purposes, this is from a contemporary temple in Paris, which I believe is attached to David Griffin's HOGD.
Though the trappings may seem superficially masonic, I have no clue if anyone in the video is an actual Freemason. I know in the original short-lived GD of the 19th century a number of members were Masons, and also members of the Theosophical Society, and also the Societas Rosicrucian in Anglia, and probably other various esoteric clubs. I also believe there were links to the prior Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor. The original GD split into a variety of schismatic groups with differing agendas, most of which decayed into oblivion.
From what I recall, the modern HOGD and the very different and controversial Esoteric Order of the GD are revivalists - but how that came about slips my mind. I think I came across a Thelemic GD, not tied to the OTO - or maybe it was, can't remember.
Though the trappings may seem superficially masonic, I have no clue if anyone in the video is an actual Freemason. I know in the original short-lived GD of the 19th century a number of members were Masons, and also members of the Theosophical Society, and also the Societas Rosicrucian in Anglia, and probably other various esoteric clubs. I also believe there were links to the prior Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor. The original GD split into a variety of schismatic groups with differing agendas, most of which decayed into oblivion.
From what I recall, the modern HOGD and the very different and controversial Esoteric Order of the GD are revivalists - but how that came about slips my mind. I think I came across a Thelemic GD, not tied to the OTO - or maybe it was, can't remember.