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The Cult Dossier · No. 032 · Occult / Esoteric / Satanic
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
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1888 – 1903 (successors continue) · London, Paris, Edinburgh, Bristol
III. THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY
Fully religious — ceremonial magical order
### Who led it
### What it worshipped and taught
### Who was in it
### How it ended, or where it stands
### The dead
### Of note
### Its timeline
- 1 March 1888 Isis-Urania Temple consecrated in London.
- 1892 Mathers moves to Paris and claims sole contact with the Secret Chiefs.
- 1897 Westcott resigns after his order papers are found in a hansom cab and reach his employers.
- 1900 THE BATTLE OF BLYTHE ROAD. Crowley, sent by Mathers, attempts to seize the London temple in Highland dress and a black mask; Yeats and others physically eject him. Police are called. The order splits.
- 1901–1903 The Horos scandal — a couple posing as Golden Dawn officials convicted of rape, using the order's rituals in evidence at the Old Bailey. Public ridicule finishes it.
- 1903 onward Fragments into the Stella Matutina, the Alpha et Omega, and A∴A∴.
### Its people
### Aleister Crowley
To Mega Therion; the Great Beast 666; Frater Perdurabo
Prophet of Thelema; founder of the A∴A∴; head of the OTO · 12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947 · active 1904–1947
Before the law. Never convicted of anything. Lost a libel action he himself brought in 1934, which bankrupted him.
Where things stand. Deceased 1947. The OTO survives as a legally recognised religious body.
- 8–10 April 1904 The Cairo Working; receives Liber AL vel Legis.
- 1907 Founds the A∴A∴.
- 1920 Establishes the Abbey of Thelema at Cefalù.
- 16 February 1923 Raoul Loveday dies at the abbey; the press storm follows.
- April 1923 Expelled from Italy by Mussolini.
- 1934 Bankrupted by a failed libel action.
- 1 December 1947 Dies at Hastings aged 72.
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### Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers
Comte de Glenstrae; Frater 'S Rioghail Mo Dhream
Co-founder and chief, Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn · 8 January 1854 – 20 November 1918 · active 1888–1918
Before the law. None.
Where things stand. Deceased 1918.
- 1888 Co-founds the order with Westcott and Woodman.
- 1892 Moves to Paris; claims sole contact with the Secret Chiefs.
- 1900 The Battle of Blythe Road; the order splits.
- 1900–18 Leads the rump Alpha et Omega.
- 20 November 1918 Dies in Paris, probably of influenza.
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### William Wynn Westcott
Frater Sapere Aude
Co-founder, Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn · 17 December 1848 – 30 July 1925 · active 1888–1897
Before the law. None.
Where things stand. Deceased 1925.
- 1887 Comes into possession of the Cipher Manuscripts; produces the Sprengel letters.
- 1888 Co-founds the order.
- 1897 Resigns after his papers are found in a hansom cab and reported to his employer.
- 30 July 1925 Dies in South Africa.
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