The Golden Dawn Saga, Episode 7: "Black Dawn Rising"

by David Griffin

ATTENTION: The documents quoted in this article are 100% genuine. Despite cover-up efforts, this can still be verified in numerous places on the internet, including here, here, and here. Olen Rush, defending the culprits, claims documents in this article are fake - taken from an Illuminati site. Rush now accuses me of racism - merely for outing his involvement with Golden Dawn leaders listed as Grand Officers on the official website of the anti-Semitic "Order of the Rose and Cross," including Rush's own publishers!

They don't want you to know what I am about to reveal ...

When The Dark Hand of SRIA, pulling strings in the Golden Dawn, was revealed in Episode 6, most people thought the Golden Dawn Saga was over. As you will see in episodes to come, we are only at the beginning, just entering the shadowy world beyond the Golden Dawn. 

What makes the Golden Dawn Saga so unique? This is a TRUE story. The evidence you will find along the way may shock you, but it is truer then you would like to admit. We are entering a world so strange, so marvelous, so terrifying, I shall henceforth only leave you a trail of crumbs to find your way in the labyrinth. This thread of Ariadne, you must follow on your own, and find the Minotaur yourself.

In June 2007, scandal rocked the Golden Dawn community as a new and obscure Rosicrucian order broke onto the esoteric scene. They say this Order of the Rose and Cross was born in schism, condemning the SRIA for its lack of Christian purity. The esoteric world looked on in horror, as in their manifesto of the ORC, as reported on usenet at the time the ORC opened in June, 2007, identified themselves as "Christian Identity." 

"We invite fellow Christians, Freemasons, and Rosicrucians to join us in raising Christianity to its manifest destiny in the final struggle to establish God's kingdom on earth, and in restoring the Rosicrucian tradition to its true Christian identity." 

Manifesto of the Order of the Rose and Cross. [The entire manifesto follows below.]

The scandal deepened when Nick Farrell openly admitted on the internet that SRIA is a racist organization. Following the SRIA-ORC schism in 2007. Nick Farrell wrote on alt.magick:

"ORCs policy on admission is considerably wider than the SRIA in that it is open to all races and sexes. The ORC was originally formed by a group of people who felt that SRIA was too conservative."

Here is what Wikipedia says of Christian Identity:

"Christian Identity is a label applied to a wide variety of loosely affiliated believers and churches with a racialized theology. Many promote a Eurocentric interpretation of Christianity...  

In turn, most modern Christian denominations and organizations denounce Christian Identity as heresy and condemn the use of the Christian Bible as a basis for promoting anti-Semitism... 

Christian Identity followers believe that Adam and Eve are ancestors of whites alone, and that Adam and Eve were preceded by lesser, non-Caucasian races often (though not always) identified as "beasts of the field"...  

Racialism, or race based philosophy is the core tenet of Christian Identity, and most CI adherents are White Nationalists or support racial segregation. Some believe that Jews are genetically compelled by their Satanic or Edomite ancestry to carry on a conspiracy against the Adamic seedline and today have achieved almost complete control of the Earth through their illegitimate claim to the white race's status as God's chosen people..." 

Christian Identity

Scandal rocked the Golden Dawn community when news broke that numerous leaders of Golden Dawn orders were listed as Grand Officers of the nascent "Order of the Rose and Cross." These included Nick Farrell, The Present Supreme Maga of the SRIA (America), her husband who also belongs to the segregationist SRIA and SRIC, and SRIA member and Golden Dawn author R.A. Gilbert.

Once the scandal broke, the list of officers was quickly truncated on the ORC website, deleting all offices filled by Golden Dawn leaders from the list. It is highly likely, however, that Nick Farrell and the other Golden Dawn leaders still serve Grand Officers for the anti-Semetic ORC, despite their rote denials. Below is the original list of officers captured from the ORC website on June 3, 2007, followed by the "sanitized" list, captured the following month on July 4.

(Original list, captured 6/3/2007)

Officers

Supreme Magus

M.W.Fra. Michael Buckley, IX°

Senior Deputy Supreme Magus

R.W.Fra. John Goodrum, IX°

Junior Deputy Supreme Magus

R.W.Fra. Chris Oversby, IX°

Grand Chaplain

R.W.Fra. Alan Armstrong, IX°

Grand Exponent

Husband of the Supreme Maga of SRIA (America) and member Metropolitan College SRIA (Anglia) and SRIC (Canada) IX°

Grand Secretary

R.W.Fra. Alan Blackstone, IX°

Grand Treasurer

R.W.Fra. John Goodrum, IX°

Grand Archivist

R.W.Fra. Robert Gilbert, IX°

Grand Tutor

R.W.Fra. Robert Gilbert, IX°

Grand Webmaster

R.W.Fra. Thomas Clarke, IX°

Grand Preceptor

R.W.Fra. Thomas Clarke, IX°

Grand 1st Ancient

R.W.Fra. Dave Winefield, IX°

Grand 2nd Ancient

Supreme Maga of SRIA (America)

Grand 3rd Ancient

V.W.Fra. Nick Farrell, VI°

Grand 4th Ancient

V.W.Fra. Ross Agnew, VII°

Grand Guardian

V.W.Fra. David Williams, VI°

(Censored list, captured on 7/4/2007)

Officers

Supreme Magus

M.W.Fra. Michael Buckley, IX°

Senior Deputy Supreme Magus

R.W.Fra. John Goodrum, IX°

Junior Deputy Supreme Magus

R.W.Fra. Chris Oversby, IX°

Grand Secretary

R.W.Fra. Alan Blackstone, IX°

The scandal was compounded by the rampant anti-Semitism in the article written by R.A. Gilbert, Golden Dawn or Gotterdamerung, as follows below. Note that the ORC has attempted to sanitize this article from its website as well, but have been sloppy. Although the .pdf is no longer available on their server, the link to it still remains on the articles page, as follows:

Despite this obvious attempt by the Order of the Rose and Cross to remove all evidence of anti-Semitism from their website, the full article can still be downloaded from the original version of their website from the Internet Archive here.

ORC Grand Archivist, R.A. Gilbert

"How can we best preserve the Western Hermetic Tradition for the future? I truly believe that initiatic Orders analogous to the Golden Dawn are still needed and that their role is crucial in preserving our specifically western esoteric spirituality. We must also recognise that the Tradition which represents that spirituality FACES REAL THREATS, both from the growth of RELIGIOUS INDIFFERENCE and from the determined efforts of its SPIRITUAL ENEMIES to capitalise on such indifference, and to undermine the tradition by perverting its ethos and substituting darker and avowedly anti-Christian goals. If we are true to our Rosicrucian principles then we must recognise and strive against those THREATS." - R.A. Gilbert 

It is obvious, that Gilbert is here espousing an Anti-Semetic "Christans only" view of Rosicrucianism. Gilbert makes direct reference to some mysterious "anti-Christian" (read Jewish? Pagan? Muslim?) THREAT. Such paranoid declarations are highly reminiscent of other Anti-Semetic tracts like the infamous "Protocols of the Elders of Zion."

Another Anti-Semetic Tract talking about "threats" 

from "spiritual enemies" with "anti-Christian goals."

Finally, here is the full text of the manifesto of the Order of the Rose and Cross, as reported on usenet at the time of the official opening of the ORC in June, 2007. The fact that ORC has attempted to remove every other trace of proof of racism from its website aw well, speaks to the authenticity of this document.

We, the Fratres et Sorores of the true Rose and Cross herewith proclaim the birth of a new order, so that Christianity may yet fulfill its manifest destiny and the Rosicrucian tradition may be restored to its original Christian purity: "The Order of the Rose and Cross" Our Order teaches that true Christianity is not merely a question of belief, but also one of racial karma.

After the invasion of the kingdom of Israel, the Assyrians scattered the indigenous population. They resettled in the Caucasus Mountains, and later drifted into Europe. We believe that the Anglo-Saxon and associated Indo-European cultures are the spiritual and literal descendants of these "lost ten tribes of Israel," representing God's chosen people as mentioned in the Old Testament. 

We believe in the inevitability of the end of the world and in the Second Coming of Christ. We believe that the coming "end times events" are part of a cleansing process that is needed before Christ's kingdom can be firmly established on earth. During this time, Satan and his allies will attempt to destroy God's chosen people using any means available. The result will be a violent and bloody millennial struggle, in which Christians shall battle Satan and the forces of evil. Many will perish, and some will be forced to wear the Mark of the Beast merely to participate in business and commerce. After the final battle is ended, however, Christ's kingdom shall be established on earth, and Christians be recognized as the one and true Israel.

The principal aim of "The Order of the Rose and Cross" is to preserve and propagate pure, esoteric Christianity, the true essence of the Western Mystery Tradition, by means of study, debate and meditation within a consecrated space, in order to prepare Christians for the coming struggle. We believe, moreover, that the Rosicrucian movement has been from its inception an inherently Christian movement. Therefore only Christians may join the Order of the Rose and Cross. 

We believe, moreover, that Rosicrucians have a special role to play in the end times struggle, and that Christians shall gather around the symbols of our Order, the Rose and Cross, in their struggle against Satan and his allies.

 Many members of our Order were once members of other Rosicrucian orders whose leaders had lost their way. The founders of the Order of the Rose and Cross had all been senior and long-standing members of the Sociatas Rosicruciana in Anglia (S.R.I.A.), a masonic Rosicrucian body that professed to be Christian in nature and membership, but which had gradually slipped from maintaining its Christian identity as well as a wholly Christian membership. 

The slippage away from spiritual integrity gained momentum, and when the head of that body drifted away from Christianity, they said 'Enough is enough' and left, but more in sorrow than in anger. They did not, however, leave Rosicrucianism behind them, and creating a new Order was a natural step - as was the inevitable reviling and ill-will from some of their erstwhile colleagues. But the breach was only with the misguided leaders of that Rosicrucian body, not with its wider membership, who are welcome among us as pilgrims on the Rosicrucian path.

We invite fellow Christians to join us on the Rosucrucian path of true esoteric Christianity. We invite fellow Christians, Freemasons, and Rosicrucians to join us in raising Christianity to its manifest destiny in the final struggle to establish God's kingdom on earth, and in restoring the Rosicrucian tradition to its true Christian identity."

Does the Order of the Rose and Cross truly subscribe to the hate filled philosphy of Christian Identity? 

How deeply has this cancer infiltrated the Golden Dawn? 

Do Nick Farrell and other Reconstructionist Golden Dawn leaders still serve as Grand Officers in the "Black Dawn" ORC?

Black Dawn: ORC attack on the Alpha Omega

Is there still more here than meets the eye left to discover, despite the vacuous denials and shocking revelations thus far?

Keep coming back, and you will find the answers to these and many other questions as The Golden Dawn Saga continues, here on The Golden Dawn Blog.

To be continued ...

GH Imperator David Griffin

HOGD, AO, 33, 90, 96

Moina Mathers' Alchemical Painting: GD Traditionalists & Reconstructionists

by David Griffin

There has been a great deal of conflict in the Golden Dawn community because the Reconstructionist faction will not allow Traditionalist Golden Dawn orders to function in peace. The way that McDonalds corporation put thousands of independent hamburger restaurants out of business by imposing corporate domination of the industry, Golden Dawn Reconstructionists have attempted likewise to destroy traditional Golden Dawn orders, like the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (HOGD) and our parent order, the Rosicrucian Order of Alpha Omega (AO). This has led to the term "McGoldenDawn" to describe the extreme aggression of the reconstructionist faction in the Golden Dawn community.

They have defamed us on the internet for nearly two decades. They have published our initiation rituals. They have even attempted to demonize our order by rewriting our history. It turns out that this entire Witch Hunt has been manipulated from behind the scenes by the SRIA, a shadowy, anti-Semetic, anti-Muslim, and anti-Pagan organization based in England, with tentacles stretching across the world, including throughout the aggressive Reconstructionist faction of the Golden Dawn community. 

The SRIA has stirred strife in the Golden Dawn community for at least two decades, not infrequently by providing documents to Golden Dawn Reconstructionists to profane through publication, in order to promote their groups. A primary culprit in this profanation of documents has been R.A. Gilbert, who has trafficked in Golden Dawn documents for decades.

The following, an alchemical illustration painted by Moina Mathers, will serve nicely to contrast the difference between the Reconstructionist and the Traditionalist approaches to the Golden Dawn. Comments published by GD Reconstructionists Pat Zalewski and Olen Rush about this illustration will make this distinction clear, contrasted with comments that I will make below.

Sunday April 22, 2012 Pat Zalewski wrote about this illustration:

"One of the most important GD diagrams that to the best of my knowledge has only been published in R A Gilbert's GD Scrapbook (which is online), is the diagram of the winged dragon eating the tail of the unwinged dragon. Olen Rush goes into this as well. This is a diagram influenced by Kirchweger's edition of Homer's Golden Chain. You can also see this in Alchemy and mysticism by Roob, page 404.

Flamel also discussed this principle in his Chymische Werke. The use of the hexagram within the the two dragons by Moina was possibly due to it being similar to, though not identical with the the symbol of the Theosophical society. The text underneath the symbol of Moina is a paraphrase of Kirchweger.

If you go to Roob's book and study the Kirchweger plate, then look at the one on the next page you have the winged and unwinged dragons locked together within a zodiac, which is taken from a Ripley Scroll and is the pictorial basis for the Convoluted Forces paper. From what I can gather the Convoluted Forces diagrams appears to be a mixture of Theosophical, Kirchweger and Ripley. The diagrams are one thing and the text is another, and Agrippa's influence comes in there as well.These are then fused together within a GD frame of reference."

Pat Zalewski

On Sunday, May 30, 2010, Olen Rush wrote:

"Moina's translation/interpretation recovered to the best ability of my squinty old eyes.

This is the wording of the Golden Dawn version of the Figur Abyssi Duplicatae diagram as presented in the previous post. This is the work of Moina Mathers... quite interesting really. Obviously, it is a direct work from the Kirchweger text. Her extrapolation of the Elements to the smaller triangular forms (6 small triangles of the periphery) of the Hexagram differ from the partial diagram I worked with. It had the two furthest right (smaller) triangles of the Hexagram labled with "Terra" for the inferior triangle, and "Vegetabalia" for the Superior Triangle. Comparing to a number of GuRC diagrams... I utilized "Vegtabalia", "Animalia", and "Elementa" on the angles of one (larger) triangle... for the other (larger) triangle I used "Terra", "Siderea", and "Elementa".

In the transcription below, the elements listed in brackets such as: [fire] replace the elemental symbols of Moina's text.  

'Whenever the Dragon meets an enemy, they fight.

The Volatile must become fixed, vapour and [water]

must become [earth]. [Fire] must become corporeal,

so life can enter the [earth]. The superior must become 

inferior, and vice versa. The fixed becomes volatile.

The [earth] becomes [water], vapour, [air], and [fire],

whilst [fire] returns to the center of the [earth]. Heaven, 

i.e. [fire] must be converted into a first [earth]. The 

Dragon with wings kills the Dragon without wings,

or the latter destroys the former. Thus is manifested 

the Quintessence and its powers." 

Olen Rush

Let us not examine what we do and do not learn about this alchemical painting from Mr. Zalewksi and Mr. Rush. We learn that the drawing was published in "The Golden Dawn Scrapbook" by SRIA agent, R.A. Gilbert, that it appears influenced by Kirchweger's Golden Chain of Homer, that the diagram is called Figur Abyssi Duplicatae, and that Flamel discussed it in his Chemische Werke.

We also encounter, however, some highly speculative data that I believe is also quite erroneous, for example, that the whole is somehow related to Agrippa and that Moina Mathers included the hexagram due to its similarity with the symbol of the Theosophical Society. We also encounter the  completely unsupported speculation that the Convoluted Forces paper of the Golden Dawn is taken from a Ripley Scroll and appears to be a mixture of Kirchweger, Ripley and Theosophy.

This entire approach, including the rather fantastic and highly erroneous speculations, poignantly demonstrate what is wrong with the entire Reconstructionist approach to the Golden Dawn. Through the academic approach of the Golden Dawn Reconstructionists, we do learn some interesting background information, but we also encounter bottomless sacks of red herrings due to rampant and unwarranted speculation, often easily confused with real data.

Completely absent from the analysis of both Mr. Zalewksi and Mr. Rush is why Moina Mathers painted this particular alchemical illustration, and what relevance to or importance it has in the Golden Dawn TRADITION. The Golden Dawn is, after all, a SPIRITUAL TRADITION. One may safely assume therefore, that this illustration has a spiritual significance.

Here we enter the realm of TRADITIONAL Golden Dawn orders like the Rosicrucian Order of Alpha Omega. We Golden Dawn Traditionalists do not need to try to reinvent the wheel, nor do we need to attempt to figure out what things mean based on idle speculation. Since we are initiated into the Hermetic and Rosicrucian mysteries, we are taught the original, spiritual meaning and use of each and every aspect of the Golden Dawn tradition.

As a matter of fact, in the case of this alchemical painting by Moina Mathers, we are in the presence of a symbolical depiction of one of the most important SPIRITUAL PRACTICES of the THIRD ORDER of the Golden Dawn. As Traditionalists, we look at the symbols of the Golden Dawn not to provide historical data or to engage in personal speculation, but rather to better understand how to carry out specific spiritual practices.

I must at this point remind readers that all of the spiritual practices of everything in the traditional Golden Dawn above Adeptus Minor (5=6) remains secret, oath bound material. I am therefore not permitted to divulge the actual details of the spiritual practice of the Golden Dawn's Third Order that this particular alchemical image actually represents. 

I can, however, shed light on its real meaning using the "language of the birds", as Hermetic sages have always done, lifting the veil so that the light beyond may be witnessed, but without ripping the veil away from the door to the inner sanctuary. Thus, while withholding the specific nature and details of the Third Order spiritual practice in question, I may nonetheless shed light on the true meaning of certain of the relevant symbols. 

The two dragons, one winged and the other not, represent the two natures, Sulphur and Mercury, which united together create the Salt. Note also that the two dragons are circulating together, in a counter-clockwise, or widdershins direction. Thus they do not follow the path of the Sun, but follow instead the path of the Zodiac. (Thus Zalewski got this one association right.)

The planets represent the elements to be used in the practice and the timing for the work. The triangles are double because each nature is always double. The central circle represents the philosophical egg, also relevant for this particular practice. This circle also represents the Salt when the two natures are in conjunction.

The hexagram, contrary to Mr. Zalewski's irrelevant speculation, has nothing to do with the Theosophical Society, but it does indeed have an extremely important and profound meaning. The hexagram reveals the mystery of the septenary and refers to the true and proper practice to be performed. Note particularly how the upward pointing triangle is yellow where usually one finds red in most alchemical drawings. This is highly significant, as it represents a very important detail in practice, which must be always considered in this particular spiritual practice.

Finally, I add that this particular Golden Dawn practice of our Third Order may also be ritualised in the Vault of the Adepti as well.

Let he who has an ear, hear. Let he who has an eye, see. For the Sons of Hermes speak the truth and plainly for one with ears and eyes.

Thus we see clearly the true reason that Golden Dawn Reconstructionists are so aggressive towards traditional Golden Dawn orders like the AO. The Reconstructionists remain ignorant of the actual SPIRITUAL PRACTICES hidden in all of the symbology of the Golden Dawn. Consequently, they remain lost in a labyrinth of academic research and sterile speculation.

Since the racist SRIA is trying to set itself up as a faux Third Order, stirring strife, and interfering in the Golden Dawn community for two decades, selectively releasing archival documents to GD Raeconstructionists, one would expect that the SRIA would also be able to transmit the secret SPIRITUAL PRACTICES encoded in the rites and symbols of the Golden Dawn. If the anti-Semetic SRIA is the real Third Order, let them explain to us what the SPIRITUAL PRACTICE is encoded in this painting by Moina Mathers. If the true meaning of the "0=0" was too difficult a test for them, at least they should be able to pass this one.

The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and its parent order, the Rosicrucian Order of AO is today the only Golden Dawn order under the direct guidance and protection of the Secret Chiefs of the Third Order of the Golden Dawn in Continental Europe. As such, we have access to the ENTIRE curriculum and SPIRITUAL PRACTICES of all grades of all Three Orders of the Golden Dawn system.

We have already begun to share this incredible knowledge with Adepts of orders from across the Golden Dawn community. We have no problem in sharing these teachings and spiritual practices with other Golden Dawn orders. We have no interest in manipulating or controlling anyone. We are not like the SRIA. We want to see the Golden Dawn thrive as a diverse community. We ask only that aggressive Reconstructionists agree to keep traditional secrecy and respect the sanctity of oath bound material as has always been the case in the Golden Dawn, and that you live and let live, and end your misguided Witch Hunt against traditional Golden Dawn orders like the AO.

An Challenge to Olen Rush and his Anti-Semite SRIA Masters

by guest blogger

Der Golem

Adept, Rosicrucian Order of AO

Olen Rush today wrote:

"Dedicated to ardent Bullshitters who show no work and even condemn the original system while offering naught but conjecture. And likely to not understand these things I have been posting. No verbal explanation is given with this diagram, the student will have to think... 

Soon we will advance into the Spherical Tree of Life, and how the Astronomical System, and Chess Boards relate to these concepts. Note these are all part of the Grade studies and relate to both Original documents, diagrams, and papers of the Higher Degrees. Despite the fact that some people are denying the validity of original papers such as that written by A.P.S. that were included in the R.R. et A.C. higher degree work, and which they are unable to explain."

Care Frater A.M.,

I am sad to watch you destroy yourself like this. Did you learn nothing from your injuries? Have all the steroids maybe eaten your brains?

We in the Alpha Omega are not like you McGoldenDawn puppets who grovel before anti-Semite SRIA masters, just for scraps of old documents for you to profane on the internet or in books.

Unlike puppets like you of the Dark Hand of the racist SRIA, we in the AO understand the value of initiatic secrecy, which has informed all true initiatic traditions for millennia. 

Despite your stupidity in profaning everything you touch, we of the Alpha Omega nonetheless invited you to see proof of the Third Order at the recent Conclave of the Adepti in Las Vegas on March 9. You chose not to come, yet you are so arrogant now to write vulgar insults and try to put us to the test. 

We know that you, like Pat Zaewlski did for years, are only trying to trick us to reveal more of our mysteries. You lost this privilege when you failed to show up at the Conclave where concrete proof was provided for all. We do not fall for your cheap trick, trying to bait more information from us.

Instead, we now put you and your anti-Semite SRIA masters to the test.

Since SRIA pretends to be the true Third Order of the Golden Dawn, surely these "Christians only" usurpers can answer one simple and basic question from the Third Order of the Golden Dawn perspective.

If the racists of SRIA are truly the Third Order of the Golden Dawn as they claim, then surely they ought to be able to tell us, at a very minimum:

"What is the true reason the Neophyte Grade is called "0=0"? 

Why two zeros? 

And why the = sign?" 

Mind you, we are not asking for some cheap symbolical explanation like you are used to in the Golden Dawn's First and Second orders.

We are asking you to prove your claim by proving your knowledge of the secret Third Order PRACTICE that lies concealed in these symbols. After all, what truly matters in the advanced Golden Dawn are the SPIRITUAL PRACTICES and not silly intellectual explanations of symbols.

Since you, Olen, are such a great Adept and researcher, and since you prostrate yourself the feet of anti-Semite SRIA masters, surely SRIA, as the true Third Order, can explain to us all at least the truth of this simplest of true Third Order mysteries.

Mind you, Olen, the true Third Order of the Golden Dawn teaches not only this marvelous SPIRITUAL PRACTICE, but as well ALL of the other SPIRITUAL PRACTICES concealed in the symbolism, grades, and magic of the entire system of the Golden Dawn. I am not speaking of mere intellectual explanations of symbols either, but of the actual spiritual practices the symbols conceal.

This is what the true lineage of the Golden Dawn means, and not merely some musty old documents that SRIA does not even understand, whose only value is to show off in books and on the internet to create the illusion that you know more than you do about the Golden Dawn.

You, Olen, as a Jew who serves the interests of SRIA anti-Semites, shame me as a fellow Jew as you shame your entire people.

Which reminds me, you still have not answered my question from last time.

How much are are the racist SRIA pigs paying you to betray your fellow Jews by attacking us in the Alpha Omega?

I'm sure I can make you a better offer.

Der Golem

The Wescott Tablets & SRIA/McGD Witch War

by David Griffin

For a Free and Independent Golden Dawn ...

Stop the Racist SRIA!

ATTENTION: The documents quoted in this article are 100% genuine. Despite cover-up efforts, this can still be verified in numerous places on the internet, including here, and here. I have recently published evidence linking Golden Dawn leaders to the anti-Semitic "Order of the Rose and Cross" here. Olen Rush, defending the culprits, claims documents in this article are fake - taken from an Illuminati site. Rush now accuses me of racism - merely for outing his involvement with Golden Dawn leaders listed as Grand Officers on the official website of the anti-Semitic "Order of the Rose and Cross," including Rush's own publishers!


In episode 6 of The Golden Dawn Saga, The Dark Hand REVEALED, I exposed how the dark hand of the racist SRIA has for decades been pulling the strings of their McGoldenDawn® marionettes to stir strife in the Golden Dawn community in their quest to completely control and dominate the Golden Dawn. Far from the stodgy little research groups that people believe the SRIA and its offshoots are, these are racists who discriminate against Jews, Pagans, and Muslims, and who have been trying to steal the Golden Dawn nearly from its inception. This all becomes obvious when you look at who in the GD community belongs to the various tentacle orders of SRIA, which reads like a Who's Who of McGoldenDawn reconstructionists. 

But why exactly does SRIA hate the Alpha Omega so much?

To begin with, as Imperator of the AO, I am Pagan, and the bigoted "Trinitarian Christians only" SRIA can tolerate neither Jews, Pagans nor Muslims in their midst. Moreover, unlike SRIA, we in the AO admit and advance initiates of both genders on an equal basis.

In the AO, we certainly do not discriminate against Christians either. In fact, esoteric Christian mysteries are an important aspect of the Golden Dawn. What the SRIA can not stand though, is that we do not discriminate against Jews, Pagans, or Muslims the way they do. This, the Anti-Semitic SRIA hates with a passion.

Racist SRIA Supreme Magus John Paternoster

Moreover, unlike the SRIA and their McGD® franchises, the Alpha Omega does not interfere in the private lives of our members and does not prohibit them from joining whatever other orders or what not they like. We believe that all women and all men are created equal, with an equal possibility of spiritual evolution. We believe, however, that this evolution must be conquered though great discipline in spiritual practice.

Our order therefore, as has always been the case in traditional Initiatic societies, is not democratic, but is structured as a hierarchical meritocracy, wherein each individual is advanced exclusively according to individual merit. Unlike the racist SRIA, the Alpha Omega does not discriminate against any individual on the basis of religion, race, gender, sexual or political preferences.

Finally, the SRIA hates most of all because the Alpha Omega foiled SRIA's secret grand design of many years, to sieze control the Golden Dawn using the Golden Dawn trademark, held and licensed by the Supreme Maga of SRIA in America. AO has equal right to license others due to our settlement agreement with the other party. This means that the AO is the only thing preventing SRIA from controlling the Golden Dawn with the GD trademark.

Even McGoldenDawn Chief Nick Farrell publicly admitted that SRIA is a racist organization. Following the SRIA-ORC schism in 2007, McFarrell wrote on alt.magick:

Racist SRIA/ORC Puppet, Nick Farrell

"ORCs policy on admission is considerably wider than the SRIA in that it is open to all races and sexes. The ORC was originally formed by a group of people who felt that SRIA was too conservative." 

- Nick Farrell

Nick Farrell, in fact, defended the Grand Officers of the ORC (Order of the Rose and Cross), a schismatic offshoot of SRIA) on thier website when it first opened, together with the present Supreme Maga of the SRIA (America) her Metropolitan College SRIA husband, and racist SRIA/ORC Frater, R.A. Gilbert as well.

There was a huge scandal on the internet when news broke that all three of these were GRAND OFFICERS of this new, racist and Anti-Semitic "Christians only" order, and all three of their names were immediately "sanitized" from the ORC website (note that the list of officers was merely truncated and the offices removed from the site instead of other persons placed in the above referenced offices). Also removed was racist R.A. Gilbert, who had originally sponsored the husband when he joined Metropolitan College of SRIA. 

Thus you can see that it is not at all certain that the Supreme Maga of SRIA (America) is telling the truth on her website, and that SRIA (America) does not secretly share the racist and bigoted views (and discriminatory practices) of SRIA (Anglia) and quietly discriminate racially and religiously once inside SRIA (America) as do the other SRIA orders her husband belongs to in Canada and England. She was, after all, listed as a GRAND OFFICER on the initial website of the racist ORC, together with her husband who additionally belonged to the racist SRIA (Anglia) and anti-semetic SRIC (Canada).

Moreover, there are indications that ORC is even more fanatically bigoted than SRIA, despite Nick Farrell's trying to whitewash them. Firstly, there is the ORC objection that the SRIA was not "Christian" enough for them. This at least indicates a certain extreme right wing Fundamentalism. More damning, however, is the conclusion of R.A. Gilbert's paper originally listed on the ORC website, entitled "Golden Dawn or Gotterdammerung"

Note that the ORC has attempted to sanitize this article from its website as well, but have been sloppy. Although the .pdf is no longer available on their server, the link to it still remains on the articles page, as follows:

Despite this attempt by the Order of the Rose and Cross to remove evidence of anti-Semitism from their website, Gilbert's full article can still be downloaded from the original version of the ORC website from the Internet Archive here. Using his OR+C order name, Frater I.D.V.A, Anti-Semite R.A. Gilbert wrote:

SRIA/ORC Anti-Semite, R.A. Gilbert

"How can we best preserve the Western Hermetic Tradition for the future? I truly believe that initiatic Orders analogous to the Golden Dawn are still needed and that their role is crucial in preserving our specifically western esoteric spirituality. We must also recognise that the Tradition which represents that spirituality FACES REAL THREATS, both from the growth of RELIGIOUS INDIFFERENCE and from the determined efforts of its SPIRITUAL ENEMIES to capitalise on such indifference, and to undermine the tradition by perverting its ethos and substituting darker and avowedly anti-Christian goals. If we are true to our Rosicrucian principles then we must recognise and strive against those THREATS."     

- R.A. Gilbert

Another Anti-Semetic Tract

talking about "threats" from "spiritual enemies"

with "anti-Christian goals."

It is obvious, that Gilbert is here espousing an Anti-Semetic "Christans only" view of Rosicrucianism. Gilbert makes direct reference to some mysterious "anti-Christian" (read Jewish? Pagan? Muslim?) THREAT. Such paranoid declarations are highly reminiscent of other Anti-Semetic tracts like the infamous "Protocols of the Elders of Zion."

It is understandable that Nick Farrell, the SRIA (America) Supreme Maga, and her husband are now desperately trying to distance themselves from the racism and bigotry of SRIA (Anglia) and its offshoots like SRIC in Canada, SRIS in Scotland, and SRICF in America, just like they tried in 2007 to cover up their involvement in in the racist ORC once they were outed as GRAND OFFICERS, since Anti-Semetism is completely incompatable with Golden Dawn Qabalah, and racism is the absolute antithesis of the humanitarian Hermeticism of the Golden Dawn. 

Moreover, due to his defense of the religiously bigoted, "Christian only" ORC, Nick Farrell's recent denial of Christian Fundamentalism sounds empty. Furthermore, in light of the above evidence, SRIA (America)'s claim on their website of racial and religious tolerance sounds like a mere cover story, just like having their Supreme Maga sanitized from the ORC website once she was discovered as a GRAND OFFICER of that bigoted and anti-semetic organisation.

SRIA (America)

The NSDAP German NAZI Party ...

... also used red, white and black colors ...

... together with a cross motif.

The whole hubub about Mathers vs. Wescott and who was the real genius behind the Golden Dawn, also arises from the SRIA Witch Hunt to destroy the Alpha Omega. Since Mathers founded the AO, SRIA and McGD spin doctors are trying to destroy the memory of Mathers with books like the latest political polemic masquerading as "history," written by racist SRIA/ORC apologist, Nick Farrell.

Alpha Omega Founder S.L. MacGregor Mathers

Of course SRIA wants to destroy the memory of Mathers and to promote Wescott as the real genius behind the GD. This is part and parcel of the SRIA/McGoldenDawn® Witch Hunt against the AO.

This goes far to explain the recent publication of the so-called "Wescott" Tablets by the Supreme Maga of the SRIA in America. It is noteworthy that T.F. as will be shown below, confirms that these Tablets were released for publication directly by the SRIA. Unsurprisingly, SRIA racist, R.A. Gilbert has trafficked in Golden Dawn documents like these for decades, and has on more than one occasion provided Golden Dawn documents for profanation by the Supreme Maga of SRIA (America) and her husband. This has all along been intended, of course, to promote the SRIA controlled, McGD reconstructionist faction against traditional Golden Dawn orders like the AO.

This is also the case with the recent profanation of part 4 of the Mathers' rescension of the AO's 6=5 ritual. T.F. of SRIA is personally responsible, in fact, for the profanation of this secret AO ritual, recently published by the Grand Maga of SRIA America. To inflict maximum damage on the Alpha Omega with this attack, T.F. leaked only the fourth point of the ritual, thus enabling Nick Farrell to falsely claim Mathers had eliminated all magic from the order and had taken the Alpha Omega in a purely Masonic direction.

I must admit that I find these tablets, putatively from Wescott, quite fascinating (having seen colour pictures of them I have done some "decoding work" myself), especially when applied to the Sphere of Sensation model. The colour scales fit the traditional Hodos Chamelionis formula. Nonetheless, I feel they fail to add anything of real substance or value to the Golden Dawn MAGICAL system. At the very least, no one has yet demonstrated to my satisfaction how, from a magical point of view, these tablets contribute so greatly to the magical tech of the Golden Dawn, as to justify all the exaggerated hype about them from SRIA and McGD spin doctors.

What is tragic to observe is how these so-called "Wescott" Tablets are being used as a weapon against S.L. MacGregor Mathers, trying to forge the idea that it was Westcott (a Supreme Magus of SRIA) who was the real "genius" behind the magical system of the RR et AC, and not MacGregor Mathers (a student of Lux e Tenebris, ambassador of the Secret Chiefs of the Third Order)

SRIA Supreme Magus W. Wynn Wescott

Wescott was definitely not this alleged genius. Even if Westcott actually was the original creator of these Tablets (which is not at all established, despite the loud wailing of SRIA and McGD spin doctors), he simply used two models that MacGregor Mathers had already presented (as revealed from his Third Order contact L.e.T.), the 'Book of the Concourse of the Forces' and 'Hodos Chamelionis'.

Regarding the dubious SRIA-McGD claim that Wescott created these tablets, SRIA researcher T.F. wrote on Oct 30 2011:

"From the historical perspective a small note of caution. There is actually no evidence at all that Westcott produced them. They are usually termed the' Westcott Tablets' simply because they were found amongst a number of interesting GD items at the SRIA, London (and were rescued from being thrown out by a certain astute person)... We cannot conclude that Mathers (or someone else) had no part in producing these. Moreover, it may be useful to ponder the date when Westcott left the GD and his declaration that he laid no propriety claim to the work of the Second Order, which he acknowledged to be that of Mathers..." 

- T.F.

Westcott's creative input (if he truly was the genius behind said Tablets) was but to fuse the two documents together in a workable and interesting format. The alleged genius of Wescott was, at best, but to extrapolate on portions of the material transmitted through MacGregor Mathers, albeit a good extrapolation. Westcott was a great scholar, we must give him credit for that. But this does not make him, by any stretch of the imagination, the true "genius" of the R.R. et A.C. as claimed by McGD franchises and thier SRIA masters. Westcott himself even claimed in a private letter that the Golden Dawn (i.e. the Outer Order) was "his" while the R.R. et A.C. (the Inner Order) was "MacGregor Mathers".

Touting Wescott while denigrating Mathers is merely a new line of attack designed to create the illusion of the SRIA as the crown (or source) of the Golden Dawn, something that the Rosicrucian Order of Alpha Omega vehemently opposes. This stong and open opposition of ours, this standing up in defence of our order, is frequently mischaracterized by McGD Inquisitors and their SRIA masters as agression from our side. It is not. It is, however, a firm determinaton to cure the Golden Dawn community of the plague of leprosy the McGoldenDawn franchise lobby has infected the GD community with for two decades on behalf of their SRIA puppet masters.

The inappropriate deification of Wescott in books like the recent one on the "Wescott" tablets, combined with the attempted character assassination of Mathers and the AO in the pseudo-historical political tract recently published by Nick Farrell, is just another attempt by SRIA to manipulate and stir strife in the Golden Dawn community. SRIA tried to steal the Golden Dawn's legitimate Rosicruican heritage since the beginning of the order in 1888, as I have previously proven here. SRIA has been using their McGD puppets to attack the AO and me personally on the Internet for nearly two decades now. 

So why is SRIA doing this?

The real reason the McGD puppets and their SRIA masters are so desperate is they have already published all the GD magick they have. They are therefore desperately trying to create the illusion they have more GD material than they really do, by publishing anything at all SRIA can find still laying around collecting dust. That they are reaching the bottom of the barrell is clear from all of the fluff that was published along with the "Wescott" Tablets.

The true motive for the Grand Maga of SRIA (America) to profane the so-called "Wescott" tablets, as well as part 4 of the AO's 6=5 ritual, becomes readily apparent in the conclusion of her book where she writes:

"By now it should be obvious that we have not found an end to the teachings of the traditional Golden Dawn system. I personally do not believe that such an end is anywhere within sight, even within my own lifetime. Wescott's tablets continue to provide us with proof that the Order's system, as originally intended, is more balanced, more advanced, more holistic in its composition than is apparent to those who want to reform it. Like an iceburg with 90% of its mass hidden beneath the water's surface..." 

- SRIA Supreme Maga in America

This, of course, is utter poppycock.

The claim that SRIA is still sitting on 90% of the Golden Dawn's complete magical system is utter malarkey. In reality, the reason why SRIA and their McGD puppets are trying desperately to sell a cheap illusion of "The Great and Mighty Maga of OZ" (just ignore that woman behind the curtain), is because they are magically bankrupt already at this point, with nothing left of any real magical importance to publish. They have painted themselves into a corner, leaving themselves with nothing spiritual remaining sacred and unprofaned. And they are feeling UTTERLY DESPERATE about this.

For Centuries SRIA has tried to steal the Golden Dawn. In recent decades, their puppets even wrote on Wikipedia the Golden Dawn was created by SRIA. In short, SRIA is desperately trying to sell the illusion that SRIA is the Third Order of the Golden Dawn. Well, it looks like the McGoldenDawn have found themselves a racist Third Order substitute, by selling their souls to the racist SRIA. But the SRIA certainly is not the true Third of the Golden Dawn.

The True Face of SRIA

The other reason McGD marionettes and their SRIA puppet masters are so desperate now, is because the original owners of the Golden Dawn have reappeared again - the TRUE Third Order.

And the true Third Order has now proven their legitimacy beyond any doubt, by transmitting the rest of the Second Order magick to the Alpha Omega that Mathers never received because they no longer trusted him following Crowley's profanation of the rest of the GD material. As proof of the truth of this, the AO recently invited representatives of the entire GD community to experience these superior Second Order teachings and magick of the R.R. et A.C. at our Conclave of the Adepti, held in Nevada, March 9-19, 2012. All who attended concur about the validity of the material and the authenticity of the Third Order, including the Adepts from other GD orders than our own.

How can the McGD puppets, or even their SRIA masters, possibly compete with the true Third Order of the Golden Dawn? They simply can not...

...Because they do not have any traditional Golden Dawn magic or teachings for anything above the (5=6) Adeptus Minor level that Crowley and Regardie published, and anyone can buy for $5 in a used books heap.

This is the real reason why the SRIA is trying desperately to sell the LIE that 90% of all Golden Dawn material still remains hidden in their archives.

 I repeat:

THIS IS UTTER BULLSHIT.

And since this lie blew up in their faces, together with their publishing part of our 6=5 ritual, and together with Nick Farrell's attack on the foundations of our order...

The McGD marionettes and the Dark Hand of their SRIA masters have in recent weeks relaunched an all out Witch Hunt of defamation against the AO again, in one last, desperate attempt to destroy our order.

To the Dark Hand of SRIA I say:

"You will ultimately fail in your quest to control the Golden Dawn. The Golden Dawn does not belong to you. It has never belonged to you. The Golden Dawn was created by the physical Third Order - who are QABALISTS of CONTINENTAL EUROPE...

...And not RACISTS of ENGLAND. 

The TRUE Third Order created the Golden Dawn as a reformulation of ancient Egyptian mysteries, clothed primarily in Qabalistic, Christian, and Rosicrucian symbols.  

Qabala has no place in your SRIA Anti-Semetic rules or your racist Rosicrucian views." 

- David Griffin

Let us recall the Golden Dawn is an order with deep Qabalistic roots. Already in the first knowledge lecture, Golden Dawn initiates are presented with the Hebrew alphabet. The entire grade structure is based on the Qabalistic Tree of Life. In fact, Qabalah informs nearly aspect of the structure, rites and magick of the Golden Dawn.

How could the Anti-Semitic SRIA possibly even pretend to be the Golden Dawn's Third Order, when these bigots and racists discriminate against all but Trinitarian Christians.

The notion is absurd.

The Golden Dawn Saga: Episode 6: The Dark Hand REVEALED

by David Griffin

"A Dark Secret has penetrated into the very heart of the Golden Dawn..."

Since the very first episode of the Golden Dawn Saga, you have heard about The Dark Secret in the Golden Dawn. At long last, the moment has come to reveal the identity of who has been hiding behind the scenes, trying to pull the strings of the Golden Dawn.

Let us recall the Golden Dawn is an order with deep Qabalistic roots. Already in the first knowledge lecture, Golden Dawn initiates are presented with the Hebrew alphabet. The entire grade structure is based on the Qabalistic Tree of Life. In fact, Qabalah informs nearly aspect of the structure, rites and magick of the Golden Dawn.

How is it possible then, that there are Golden Dawn orders that openly discriminate against Jews, Muslims, Pagans, and Thelemites, refusing to advance all but Christians to their Inner Order?

How is it possible that there are Chiefs of Golden Dawn orders, who are supposed to be illuminated, who belong to organizations like the SRIA, which openly discriminates against Jews, Muslims, Pagans, and Thelemites? The following image is taken directly from the website of the racist SRIA, which admits only Trinitarian Christians.

"Admission is limited to Master Masons...who accept and believe in the principles of the Trinitarian Christian faith."

SRIA Supreme Magus John Paternoster

Here, on their own website, SRIA proudly proclaims it discriminates against Jews and other minority religions. How is it possible that well placed Golden Dawn leaders belong to such openly racist organisations? How could a Golden Dawn Chief ever even contemplate actually LEADING such an openly racist organisation like SRIA?

One American Golden Chief became prominent in SRIA, introduced to Metropolitan College by R.A. Gilbert. Another Golden Dawn Chief from the same order became Supreme Maga of SRIA in America - and she openly brags about it.

The websites of the two SRIA orders in America are located here and here. According to Wikipedia:

"The SRIA (A for "America") was chartered by the SRIA (in England) in Philadelphia in 1878."

The Two SRIA Orders in America

In my early years in both Freemasonry and the Golden Dawn, I was misled by the notion that  Mathers had been a member of SRIA. I therefore naively joined an American SRIA order, the SRICF, sponsored by a Jewish friend of mine. I left SRICF in disgust, however, when my friend was later expelled from SRICF, merely because he is Jewish! The racism rampant in SRIA and SRICF is abhorrent.

SRICF Grand Magus William Koon II

Last year, I revealed here on the Golden Dawn Blog how SRICF Supreme Magus Koons announced at California College in August, 2010, how SRIA had proclaimed one Golden Dawn order the "official Golden Dawn." This is the order led by the Supreme Maga of SRIA in America together with her husband, also a high ranking SRIA member. Let there be no doubt about it. The Golden Dawn is not a racist organisation and anyone who participates in the discriminatory philosophies of SRIA has no business leading a Golden Dawn order.

I have in recent years years discovered that SRIA has infiltrated the boards of directors of numerous Golden Dawn orders. Every time one such infiltrator, T.F., is discovered on corporate records, he claims he once belonged to the order, but has since resigned. Interestingly, he used the same cover story regarding his involvement in the SRIA and in the reconstructed Fellowship of the Rosy Cross of A.E. Waite within the Secret College of the SRIA.

Let he who has an ear, hear the words of the Philosophers in the books of Moab:5 and Moab:6 - "I am protected with the Shin of divine fire in the house of the Lord."

R.A. Gilbert, another high ranking SRIA member, has trafficked in Golden Dawn documents for decades, on numerous occasions providing documents later profaned through publication.

T.F. of SRIA, on the other hand, is personally responsible for the recent profanation  in America of the Alpha Omega's 6=5 Adeptus Major (6=5) ritual, published by the Grand Maga of SRIA in America. To inflict maximum damage to the Alpha Omega, T.F. leaked only the fourth point of this ritual, thus enabling Nick Farrell to falsely claim Mathers had eliminated all magic from the order and had taken the Alpha Omega in a purely Masonic direction.

The AO was protected from these attacks by the Secret Chiefs of the Golden Dawn's Third Order, who assisted me to reform the AO's initiation rituals before the previous versions could be published. The Secret Chiefs also gave the Alpha Omega additional magic for our Second Order, to replace other AO materials profaned by Farrell as well.

But why exactly does SRIA hate the Alpha Omega so much?

To begin with as Imperator of the AO, I am Pagan, and SRIA can tolerate enither Pagans nor Jews in their midst. Moreover, we admit and advance initiates in the Alpha Omega of both sexes on an equal basis. Thirdly, we do not discriminate due to religion, race,  or sexual or political orientation.

Finally, the Alpha Omega foiled SRIA's secret grand design of many years, to sieze control the Golden Dawn using the Golden Dawn trademark, held and licensed by the Supreme Maga of SRIA in America.

The Alpha Omega, however, opposed this plan, and ultimately prevailed in court, forcing the other party to settle with us in a way that gave us the right to license other Golden Dawn orders on an equal basis with them.

This is why I have an historic announcement to make here today.

To begin with, I urge my fellow Chiefs in all Golden Dawn orders to thoroughly investigate if leadership of your order has been infiltrated by SRIA members, or if any trademark license you hold could ever be used by SRIA to try to manipulate your order.

Here is the historical announement:

As Imperator of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and Archon Basileus of the Rosicrucian Order of AO, I pledge today to grant an unconditional trademark license to any Golden Dawn order seeking to avoid control by the SRIA. The Alpha Omega pledges to protect freedom and independence in the Golden Dawn community. As Imperator of the HOGD and Archon Basileus of the AO, I promise there will always be a free and independent Golden Dawn!

Today is by no means the first time that SRIA has tried to sieze control the Golden Dawn. Already at the establishment of Isis-Urania Temple No. 3, the SRIA was already attempting to steal the Rosicrucian lineage of the Golden Dawn. The reliability of the SRIA itself possessing any sort of legitimate Rosicrucian affiliation has been seriously compromised by two false stories about its origins historically propagated by the society.

According to the first story: "An 18th century Italian Ambassador came to England who possessed certain Rosicrucian secrets, the authority to confer grades and to pass on to disciples that authority. Among the last of those disciples was Grand Secretary, W.H. White. White initiated R.W. Little into the secrets of the fraternity and gave him the authority to recruit others. Little later found some Rosicrucian papers in the cellar of Freemasons' Hall which became the ritual of SRIA."

A version of this story was deliberately propagated by the society with the knowledge of the High Council, when W. Wynn Wescott published it in "The Historical Notes of the SRIA." The only proof of this story cited by Wescott was the first page of a letter written by Grand Chaplain of the Grand Lodge of England, T.F. Ravenshaw. This story was later proven to be false and every shred of evidence refuted in a paper by Freemasonic researcher Bruce Wilson in 1947. The aforementioned letter had been published by Wescott in incomplete form, for example. Bruce Wilson found and published the entire letter, the second page of which clearly demonstrated that it had nothing whatsoever to do with the SRIA, but rather with the Red Cross of Constantine.

The second SRIA story concerned Kenneth MacKenzie (1833-1866) and was first circulated after his death in 1892. The story alleged that: "MacKenzie had early in his life been the tutor of Count Apponyi in Austria, where he was initiated into the Gold und Rosenkreutz Order (FA+RC) and given the IX degree. He was further given the authority to establish a Rosicrucian society in England, which he then communicated to Little."

MacKenzie was listed as a Past Magus of the SRIA on a leaflet stating the aims of the society in 1892, signed by then Secretary General W.J. Ferguson. The attempt to posthumously frame MacKenzie as the founder of the SRIA, and thus claim for the SRIA an affiliation deriving from the Fraternitas Aureae et Rosae Crucis in Germany, reached new depths of depravity when even the original Society register was altered.

MacKenzie's name originally stood as number 114. This was altered to 0. This story was also refuted and the relevant forgeries exposed by Bruce Wilson. Wilson also explained how the fiction of MacKenzie as the founder of SIRA was quickly dropped, but survived in a modified form wherein MacKenzie was said to have unofficially helped Little in founding the order in 1865.

In his 1947 paper, "The Origin of our Rosicrucian Society," SRIA Researcher Bruce Wilson revealed an astonishing discovery. It turns out that Kenneth MacKenzie had indeed been initiated into a Rosicrucian society and had received a Rosicrucian warrant from Count Apponyi. Moreover, MacKenzie did actually use this warrant to found a Rosicrucian organization in England, but it was not the SRIA! The warranted organization was none other than the first phase of the Golden Dawn, as a branch of a Continental society called the Brothers of Light.

SRIA knew that Kenneth MacKenzie had a legitimate Rosicrucian lineage, having been initiated in Austria by Count Apponyi, a representative of the Continental European Hermetic and Rosicrucian Order Mathers called the "Secret Chiefs of the Third Order." This Rosicrucian lineage was never meant for SRIA though. It was meant all along for the Golden Dawn, as were the Cypher Manuscripts.

The truth of the matter is that SRIA tried to steal the Rosicrucian lineage of the Golden Dawn from the beginning, and they have still not given up trying to control the Golden Dawn using its trademark even today.

As a Pagan, I am appalled that fanatical Christians are still trying to deprive Pagans, Jews, and Muslims of our rightful initiatic heritage. As an initiate of a Pagan clan persecuted nearly into extinction in Italy, I admit I can not be fully objective of on this issue. We in the Golden Dawn are told by SRIA minions that lineage does not matter and we Pagans have been told the same by Christians about our initiatic heritage and our roots in antiquity.

There is no Golden Dawn order today SRIA racists hate more than the Alpha Omega, because the AO has consistently blocked their plans to control the Golden Dawn.

Unlike minions of SRIA racists, the Rosicrucian Order of Alpha et Omega will always admit and advance initiates solely based on merit, regardless of race, religion, gender, or sexual or political preference.

Today, the Alpha Omega takes a stand for the right of Jews, Muslims, and Pagans, as well as Christians, to receive traditional Golden Dawn initiation without interference from religious bigots.

The SRIA may continue to try to control the Golden Dawn ...

But we, the Adepts of the Alpha et Omega will always be here waiting for you, vigilant, observing you, shoulder to shoulder in an impenetrable barrier against the darkenss ...

In a place where evil may not pass, and shadows flee away!

And remember:

"The bigger they are, the harder they fall"

David Triumphant

To be continued ...

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