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The Canon · No. 094
The Golden Dawn & Thelema
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn; the A∴A∴ and Ordo Templi Orientis
1888 / 1904 CE – present · Esoteric / Occult · Living · UK, US, worldwide
VII. THE MODERN AGE — 1800 – 1945
### How many
### Who began it
### What it is for
### What it worships
### What it holds
### What it does
### After death
### Its texts
### Its branches
### Of note
### Its timeline
- 1888 CE Golden Dawn founded in London.
- 1888–1900 CE Members include W. B. Yeats, Maud Gonne, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, Constance Wilde and Aleister Crowley.
- 1900–1903 CE The order fractures in a series of disputes, with Yeats and Crowley on opposite sides.
- <strong>April 1904 CE</strong> Crowley, in Cairo, writes the Book of the Law over three days, dictated, he says, by a discarnate intelligence named Aiwass.
- 1907, 1912 CE Crowley founds the A∴A∴; takes over the British section of the OTO.
- 1920–23 CE The Abbey of Thelema at Cefalù, Sicily; Mussolini expels him after a member's death and a hostile press campaign that dubs him the wickedest man in the world.
- 1937–40 CE Regardie publishes the Golden Dawn material.
- 1947 CE Crowley dies at Hastings, largely destitute.
- 1960s–present Rediscovery. Crowley appears on the Sgt. Pepper cover; Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page buys his house; Thelemic and Golden Dawn material becomes the backbone of the modern occult publishing industry.
- 1980s–present Chaos magic emerges as a stripped-down, belief-agnostic successor; Wicca's ritual structure is substantially Golden Dawn in origin.
### Sources
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