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What is the Golden Dawn

To: alt.magick
From: mimir@speakeasy.org (Al Billings)
Subject: Re: What is the Golden Dawn?
Date: 11 Nov 1996 22:33:30 GMT

Robert Word (WORD@TIW.COM) wrote:
: Mike Allegretto wrote:
: > 
: > Can someone please tell me what this Golden Dawn is about?
: 
: The Golden Dawn is that Divine Illumination which comes to a man (or 
: woman) who succeeds in contempation.
: 
: It is viewed by some that Lord Buddha was an early Golden Dawner.  For 
: he was completely englightened, and perhaps the wisest of any man ever 
: to live on the face of the earth.

 Irregardless of Word's blithering above, the Golden Dawn as a
organization, organized in a manner similar to the Freemasons, which
promoted a particular kind combination of Hermetic magic, Qabalah, and
various other spiritual disciplines or ideas. It self-destructed in the
early 20th century and certain individuals have been fighting over the
pieces ever since.

 The Golden Dawn's great gift to us all was that they compiled a complex
and workable system for doing magic and for spiritual advancement. This
has been, for the most part, published. Look for _The Golden Dawn_ by
Israel Regardie which contains most of the available order material.

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