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To: alt.occult.kabbalah.golden-dawn
From: Mark Ryan
Subject: Re: What is Golden Dawn?
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 20:47:30 GMT
In article <4isvep$gu0@news.berk.net>, jack writes:
|> Adam Wasserman wrote:
|>
|> >I have run accross refernces to GD in books and magazines that I read, but
|> >have no clear picture as to what the nature of the discipline is.
|>
|> >Could anybody post a GD-for-beginners article?
|>
|> >Adam
|> >--
|> >no .sig (sigh)
|>
|> the G.D.)Golden Dawn) was at the end of the ninteenh century a secret
|> socity of adepts(magians) wich included among others Aliester
|> Crolwley, S.L. Mcgregor Mathers and t T.S Eliot(to name but a few)
|> alot of there teachings were handed down to other systems dow the
|> years,such notables as the late Isreal Regardie wrote a 4 set book
|> called " THE GOLDEN DAWN", also a tarot deack also called the golden
|> dawn deck released publickly after regardies death(problab;y the most
|> complete deck since crowleys thoth deck
Acutally, I think you mean Y.B. Yeats, not T.S. Eliot.
Eliot would have disapproved, if he had been born at the time.
Yeats's Order name was D.E.D.I. (Daemon Est Deus Inversus). He belonged
to the G.D. and its successor the for at least 20 years.
For more on Yeats and the G.D., see --
The Unicorn by Viginia Moore
The Mystery Religion of W.B. Yeats by Graham Hough
Some other notable G.D. members:
Maude Gonne -- Irish Actress
George Russell (AE)-- Irish poet and artist
Arthur Edward Waite -- Englist occultist (and author of the Tarot deck
incorrectly attributed, above)
Dr. Wynn Westcott -- English pathologist and occultist
Sources for G.D. tradition, from oldest to newest--
Egyptian magical papyrii -- mostly just Egyptian trappings for rituals
The Hermetic tradition -- many ideas, especially that of correspondence
between microcosm/macrocosm
Jewish mysticism (the Kaballah, etc.) -- heavily drawn on for
system of correspondences and paths, including degrees of initiation
Neo-Platonism -- Great Chain of Being, reincarnation
Rosicrucianism -- used for rituals, symbols
Renaissance speculation (e.g., Giorgano Bruno, Ficcino)
Dr. Dee's Enochian system, "Angelic" language
"Grimoire" magical manuals
18th and 19th Century magicians, e.g., Eliphas Levi
19th Century spritualism
Anybody who can find any practical use for this disreputable hodgepodge
of ideas has my admiration. Somehow, the G.D. founders (the real ones,
Mathers and Westcott, not the fictitious Frauline Sprengle of Germany)
managed to make it all hang together, at least enough to capture the
interest of a guy like Yeats, who was no fool. In fact, Yeats was asked
to leave Madam Blavatsky's group ("Theosophists") because he was given
to making practical experiments... Later, he used much of the G.D. doctrine
in his own system described in "A Vision," and said to have inspired or
influenced dmuch of his later poetry. Despite this, a lot of the
G.D. is the most outrageous claptrap and balderdash.
Questions: Is there anything of value in all this stuff? If so, what is it:
esthetic, mythological, psychological, philisophical--or what? If not, why
does the subject keep croping up every few hundred years, and why does it
interest so many otherwise intellegent people? Lastly, why is the current
crop of "New Age" devotees so much less organized and talented than their
counterparts 100 years ago?
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