TRUTH about Money the Alpha Ωmega and the HOGD

by AΩ and HOGD Imperator

David Griffin

I get so tired of weird people attacking the AΩ and the HOGD out of sheer ignorance over and over. I get such nonsense quite frequently, but this time, it has gone too far. Recently, some "know it all" named Jochen Van Aelten wrote on our YouTube channel in response to this video...

Jochen Van Aelten wrote:

"If your only goal is to bring Magick to the people the why are your courses so expensive ?I think your only in it for the glory and to make money ! The Golden Dawn back in the day's even had a rule that you could not ask money for lessons.

The only thing you could do then is to not take a huge profit on what you claim is actually Magick!
The content of your courses try to make people believe that casting spells and Magick is the same thing, which it is NOT!!
Even the quality of what you are selling with a huge profit is far below the standards of what Magick actually means!
About Aleister Crowley .. Do you even understand what the man has done for Magick during the course of his live?
The books he wrote during his live time? His contribution to Magick? 
The only shit stain as you call it on Magick are people like you, who don't even understand it and try to profit from it." - Jochen Van Aelten

The above is so over the top that I took the time to set this yoyo straight, as follows: 

Thank you for providing me with this wonderful teaching opportunity. 

To begin with, the Alpha Ωmega is a free church and not a business, so your bizarre rant shows only how clueless you are. 

FYI, the AΩ uses the  funds from our courses for many things, including funding the many free services we provide for the esoteric community, like for example producing of the free magick training video you just watched. 

Or did you think that video just fell out of the sky? No. It did not. It cost real money to produce in the real world. The Alpha Ωmega fully funded the production of that video, not only so that you could watch it for free, but so that you would not even have to watch YouTube ads before it. 

Or did you even notice that YouTube ads are turned off on our videos? Of course not. That is how oblivious you are. 

Our courses, by the way, are by no means expensive, especially considering the bi-weekly or monthly live classes we provide, but of course you don't know that either, which is weird for a man who presumes to pass judgement on the Alpha Ωmega without even knowing what the hell he is talking about. 

So you have that part of your rant abysmally wrong too. Au contraire. Our courses are of great value and they fund the mission of the Alpha Ωmega as well the many wonderful free services we provide for the esoteric community. 

Or maybe you didn't even notice the absence of a collection plate at the end of our free daily livestream ritual practice streamed 24/7 on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter or Periscope. Now how do you think all of that got paid for? Do you imagine it was Santa's eves, perhaps? 

As a matter of fact, Jochen, you are so abysmally clueless that there can be only three possibilities. Either: 

[1] you are only 10 years old (in which case you get a pass)

[2] you have been living in a bubble or on a remote island leaving you so clueless, or 

[3] you are being deliberately deceptive in order to mislead our viewers. 

I am pretty sure its number 3, considering your defense of that pervert Crowley. 

Oh And by the way... YES it was very expensive back in the day under Mathers to study with the Golden Dawn. You are wrong about that too, so you are 3 for 3 for cluelessness here. 

Nonetheless, for what its worth, thank you for sharing your demonstrably ignorant opinions, as I am sure there is someone here who will find my clarification enlightening.

Griffin and McQuade ATTACKED! Alpha Ωmega and Golden Dawn BESIEGED!

by David Griffin

When Leslie McQuade and I decided to bring the Secret Magick of Jesus out of the closet and back into public awareness, we knew the risks involved.

After all, the Magick of Jesus is no joke and we are bringing it out into the open for ALL to see and use. 

We knew going in that we would make waves with this -  and that there would surely be people who don’t like what we are doing at all.

In short, we knew we would be attacked for this. The Lost Magick of Jesus, however, was too important for us NOT to bring it to the public!

Once we began practicing and livestreaming the “Opening of the Treasury of Light” rituals from the Magick of Light of Jesus Christ every sunrise, we were pleasantly surprised because there were almost no attacks. 

Almost everyone loved the ritual. The only negative thing people said was “This isn't real,” and “Jesus wasn’t a Sorcerer. You are just making this all up!”

To put such rumors to rest, Leslie and I wrote the new ebook for you we released last week, “Was Jesus Secretly A Magician? - The 3 Secret Baptisms of Jesus.” (Which you can still download for free at TheSecretsOfJesus.com).

In this new eBook, we show how the astonishing system of the Magick of Light of Jesus Christ was practiced by early proto-Christians in Alexandrian Egypt – and how they claim that these are secret teachings Jesus gave to his disciples and transmitted to his followers in Egypt through the Apostles. 

We then show how the early Roman church tried to suppress and destroy all trace of Jesus’ Magick and erase it completely from the historical record. 

Despite their best efforts to destroy it, we show in the new ebook how one manuscript containing the Magick of Light of Jesus survived for centuries buried in the sands of Egypt, how it was excavated from Thebes in 1897, and how it survives today in the Bodelian Library indexed as Bruce 96 and known by scholars as The Bruce Codex.

In our most recent video, we show how the Golden Dawn has known about this material since immediately after its rediscovery, and how Florence Farr was the first person to publish the THREE Secret Baptisms of Jesus in her book, Egyptian Magick.

Well, all of these revelations were just too much for certain people who had wished all along that we WERE just making this all up.

Since we published our new ebook on Jesus’ Magick last week, Leslie McQuade and I have once again been brutally attacked on-line over the past week with what appears to be a professionally run disinformation and defamation campaign. 

I say professionally run, because everyone knows that intelligence agencies try to manipulate spiritual communities on-line. Hey, don’t take my word for it. Read this article HERE about Glenn Greenwald's conclusions based on Edward Snowden’s revelations. Snowden carries a lot more weight than I do when it comes to how spooks are manipulating spiritual communities and reputations on-line.

I ought to know. I was attacked by them almost non-stop for over 20 years. Everyone knows about this. If not, you can still read my old articles exposing it over two decades here on the Golden Dawn blog. 

Interestingly, all of the attacks on me stopped cold once Donald Trump got elected. With Trump in the White House, I guess the on-line spooks now have more important things to do (like trashing Trump) than trying ruin my reputation and to manipulate the Golden Dawn!

That is to say - until last week. Guess what? Now that we published “Was Jesus A Secret Magician?” the intel spooks are back!

And this time, they are not just attacking me, but also Leslie McQuade. I am pretty sure they are the same agency faction that has been attacking me all along, because they are bringing back many of the same old talking points they attacked me with for 20 years, like disinformation falsely claiming I was “expelled” from the HOGD, when in truth I merely remained loyal to Israel Regardie’s disciple and former fiancée, Cris Monnastre, during a major HOGD schism in 1992.

These renewed attacks are clearly part of a PROFESSIONAL operation, because the on-line spooks are attacking us with disinfo not just anywhere, but in comments on our HOGD Facebook ads, thereby trying to stunt HOGD's growth by sabotaging our ad campaigns.

Who but professional intelligence operatives running on-line disinformation campaigns would specifically target advertising in this way?!?! 

These spooks are so arrogant that they don’t even make an effort to hide their tracks! 

They think you are stupid. They think operate invisibly and nobody notices. They are wrong.

What is interesting are the NEW lines of attack and disinformation they are now suddenly attacking Leslie and I with. 

Here is their latest nonsense.

 1. This can’t be real because Griffin is working with a WITCH QUEEN. She is not even Christian!

 2. Griffin is secretly a WITCH too, so these people are EVIL. He uses the Pagan name Lupercus.

 3. Griffin claims that the Golden Dawn is a religion, whereas the early documents show clearly that it is not.

Really? Can’t you inept spooks do any better than this? Your globalist CIA handlers must be very unhappy with you right now because we see right through you.

Nonetheless, I still think it is a good idea to set the record straight.

1. First off, the Golden Dawn is indeed NOT a religion and (contrary to spooky spook disinformation) I never, ever, not even once claimed that it is. I have all along said that the Golden Dawn is not a religion. This is all over our websites and always has been. 

2. So what then IS the Golden Dawn? The Golden Dawn is a non-sectarian system for spiritual development and set of spiritual practices. You can best understand these practices by thinking of them as something akin to “Western Yoga.”

3. The ALPHA ΩMEGA, however, IS a CHURCH. So, you see, the spooks are deliberately conflating the Golden Dawn with the Alpha Ωmega to try and cause confusion! The Alpha Ωmega free church is our parent organization and we offer not only classical HOGD training, but also training in Spellwork Mastery, defense magick, and many other spiritual and magical systems as well. 

4. The Alpha Ωmega is huge. AΩ holds a vast array of esoteric transmissions and charters (just about everything from Alpha to Ωmega), and yes, these do include the Golden Dawn. They also include Martinist, Pagan, Wiccan, and Reaux Croix esoteric transmissions as well as Hermetic, Rosicrucian, and Freemasonic charters and/or transmissions from (among others) the Gold und Rosenkreutz Order, the Asiatic Brethren (Fratres Lucis), the Frères Ainées de la Rose Croix (F.A.R.+C.), the Societas Rosicruciana of Backstrom, and the Rose Cross of Egypt (Rose Croix d'Orient).​​​​​​​ For those interested in Eastern stuff, we even hold a Kundalini Yoga transmission, which is one reason why in the AΩ we understand so well the universal nature of the LVX (God-Force) energy.

5. Yes, Leslie McQuade is an Alexandrian Wiccan Witch Queen. So what?

6. The notion that the Magick of Jesus is only for Christians is absurd and based merely on sectarian arrogance.

7. Yes, I do hold multiple Wiccan and Pagan lineages and charters in addition to everything else. And yes, it is public knowledge that in one of these my initiatic name is “Lupercus." So what?

8. I also hold charters and transmissions for multiple Freemasonis, Hermetic, Rosicrucian, and Martinist lineages and I don’t hear anybody bitching about these!

9. As far as the Lost Magick of Jesus goes, I am a duly ordained Priest and consecrated “Wandering Bishop" of the ancient Episcopi Vagantes and hold nearly ALL major and minor Apostolic successions (which you can examine in detail HERE), so you inept spooks can stick your rumormongering where the Sun never shines!

10. The Magick of Light of Jesus Christ is for ALL who aspire for ascension into the KINGDOM OF LIGHT. Do you really think its an accident that I livestream the Magick of Light of Jesus every single sunrise together with a Pagan Witch Queen? Of course not. It is quite deliberate. 

11. The Magick of Light of Jesus Christ is not JUST for Christians. How many Christians were there even while Jesus was still alive and preaching? Jesus message was for all who would listen, not just for one sectarian group. In fact, he said this over and over.

12. To learn and practice the Magick of Light of Jesus Christ, there is no need to convert or change your religion or denomination. There is no need to even change your church or to join ours. We are a FREE church and value human freedom above all else.

13. There is no need even to believe in the Magick of Light of Jesus either. All you really need is to try out the Magick of Light of Jesus for yourself, then judge for yourself from the results you obtain!

So, to all of you intel spooks renewing your on-line attacks on us this week....

DO BETTER! 

If you want to defame us or destroy our reputation, you are going to have to do a LOT better.

Because you've only been back on the attack for less than a week and you have ALREADY blown your cover.

In short, you guys SUCK!

But please DON'T STOP attacking us! Our readers are dying to watch me destroy you by exposing your entire playbook of on-line tactics and methods!

So...Bring it on!

Just don't be so pathetic.

In freedom, chivalry, and truth,

David Griffin

PS - If you haven't seen it yet, don't miss our latest video that we just released yesterday, "Was Jesus Secretly a Magician." You can watch it here now!

https://youtu.be/YZOEt2n-mTM

HUMAN FREEDOM World-Wide Ritual 8/13/18

Dear Magician,

Each night while humanity sleeps, Magi Astral riders guard our the borders of our dimension from the Astral Plane.

Month after month, Magi riders have faced down Astral invasion from dark dimensions beneath our own.

On July 4 - Independence Day, we threw a huge party on the Astral Plane, beneath the shade of the Liberty Tree.

We have enjoyed nearly 2 months of Astral peace now, with the Angel Ark “Amitiel” (Merged Angel Consciousness Light Ship) guarding the Mojave Portal, the “Raziel" Angel Ark stationed guarding at the portal at Antarctica, and the arrival on our Astral of the Chasmalim battle group.

This month the peace has held until now.

No one knows how long this peace will hold, but we are enjoying it as long as we can!

On Aug 13 comes our next HUMAN FREEDOM ritual, when at 9 PM PDT, Magicians, Witches, Shamans, and Prayer Warriors from around the world will again launch our united intention to:

“FREE HUMANITY FROM BONDAGE AND DARK ENCHANTMENT!"

Everyone is invited. Use your own Magick or Prayer - whatever you are most at home with. We begin with our Rites an hour earlier at 8:00 PM PDT, then at 9:00 PM, we launch our united intentions!

This month we will do something new and unique. 

For all who wish to experience even more unity in this amazing grass roots magical effort to free humanity, we will light the fires of ColumnHenge at precisely 9:00 PM PDT, live on Periscope @LeslieMcQuade. 

If you don’t have a smartphone or a Periscope app, you can still join us live via the internet here:

https://www.pscp.tv/LeslieMcQuade/

By the power of our united Magick, we will tip the scales of destiny towards human freedom, and alter the course of history!!!

____________________________________

Now, what about these "Magi" we keep hearing about?

Well - Let me clue you in. 

You see, since months we are  fighting off an invasion from the Dark Realms, but not here in the physical realm, but rather on the Astral Plane where we all go in the world of dreams.

The only problem is - almost all of humanity is asleep in dreamworld (kind of like in the film, The Matrix, only in reverse).

Almost no one is energetically evolved enough to be fully self-aware and awake in their dreams yet.

It doesn’t matter how strong your are. It doesn’t matter how “spiritual”  you are. 

If you can wake up in your dreams and remain self-aware, our “Astral Magi” need YOU!

Tonight when you go to bed, as soon as you wake up in dream land, ask for directions to the LIBERTY TREE. Once at the tree, ask for Leslie McQuade. At the tree, you will find Leslie organizing our makeshift village and hospital.

Astral Magi ride every night at midnight from the Liberty Tree to patrol ourt dimensional borders from the Astral Plane, watching for opening portals or any other signs of renewed Creeper incursion.

Every day our numbers at the Liberty Tree grow and grow - and often from surprising sources. 

You would think high Adepts and Lamas would be the ones arriving, but no - that is not what is happening lately at all. Instead people are waking up for surprising reasons and from astonishing directions.

At last month’s Independence Day party at the Liberty Tree, we were joined unexpectedly by the arrival almost 2 dozen young Japanese Magi recruits. They showed up the Tree spoiling for a fight on the 4th of July spoiling for a fight, each wearing heroic anime God-Forms.

It turns out Japanese anime is having an unexpected effect, helping untold numbers of young Japanese to not only suddenly wake up on the Astral Plane in their dreams, but to discover their true magical powers on the Astral! 

Tonight–they new born Astral heroes ride with the Magi!

If YOU can wake up in your dreams on the Astral Plane, come ride with the Magi – tonight and every night at Midnight – from the Liberty Tree. 

The Astral Magi need YOU! 

Until then, may the God-Force be with us all!

David Griffin

LVX ex Septentrionis

BREAKING: Golden Dawn FLAME WAR Re-Ignites!

by Hermetic Golden Dawn Imperator

David Griffin

If you have been around for any length of time, you already know how I have been defamed and attacked on the Internet for almost as long as the Net itself has been around!

Funny thing is - my attackers are almost always leaders of wannabe orders; guys dying of jealousy because they want to be me. Actually, their antics are quite sorry. Here is my latest "fan mail," this time from Golden Dawn "leader," Sam Scarborough.

You know, these would-be GD "leaders" have been touting these mythical "errors" in My Ritual Magick Manual for decades. But guess what! When challenged, they never come up with any references to back their claims!

Why not? Because they don't exist! Only in their twisted imaginations do these errors exist.

Well, OK, in a 666 page Opus Magnum like the Ritual Magick Manual, there is bound to be an occasional typo here and there.

But these fearmongering wannabes want you to believe you might accidentally invoke the demonic hordes of Beelzebub by tripping over a typo.

These guys are so full of themselves that they think you are stupid and you will believe anything you read. That's why over the years they have attacked me with the most outlandish bullshit you can imagine.

Sorry Sam, that nonsense might have worked in 2002, but people today are more awake than you think.

So why are these guys so jealous? Well, maybe its just because they know that they will always be nobodies.

Or maybe its because my Ritual Magick Manual has become the most coveted book in modern Magick, with used copies selling on Amazon for up to $3,249.50!

Or maybe it is because I lead the world's largest Golden Dawn order, with thousands of members in 116 countries across the globe.

Or could they be jealous of this blog with its reach of 1,460,538?

Or are they envious because they have no fans and no mailing list... whereas I now have 43,174 subscribers to our wildly popular Golden Dawn Mailing List?!?!

Personally, I think the real reason these guys seethe with jealousy is just they know are losers. I mean just look at this guy. 

What do you see when you look at this picture?

I'll tell you what I see. I see Sam Scarborough just got a new nickname.

From this day forward, Sam Scarborough shall henceforth be known as:

Sorry Sam

Who can take Sorry Sam seriously? 

I can't. I mean, just look at him. The guy is a joke. 

And not even a good joke. A bad joke. Not even funny. 

Just sorry - Sorry Sam.

In abundance, chivalry, and truth,

David Griffin

PS: Having endured these silly defamation attacks for 23 years now, these guys have become completely predictable. Let me demonstrate my psychic powers by giving you a glimpse into the future. Watch what happens next:

Next will come the Three Amigos singing a rousing chorus of "we hate David Griffin" with "Sorry Sam" grumbling Base, "Creepy Aaron" complaining Tenor, and "Short Bus Morgan" whining AAAAAAAAltooooo!

This ought to be entertaining.

SMACKDOWN: David Griffin OWNS A.A. Boss Paul Joseph Rovelli

by Golden Dawn Imperator

David Griffin

On the heels of our recent Solstice working to bind Daesh, the naysayers and Magick debunkers are coming out of the woodwork this morning. Surprisingly, one of one such naysayer turned out to be A.A. boss Paul Joseph Rovelli, leader of the "Gnostic Church of LVX." I think you might find our interaction from this morning entertaining. I had been waiting to give this guy a piece of my mind ever since he attacked Donald Michael Kraig while he was dying of cancer.

Paul Joseph Rovelli

Paul Joseph Rovelli: And we can see how well this ignorant idea worked...people that think magick is just like the prayers of the superstitious religions...always asking for boons from God...are practicing pure inanity. 

David Griffin:  Ignorant? Hey, I'm not surprised to hear you making such remarks. This sadly shows you don't seem to understand very well how Magick really works. Heck, judging from your words, you apparently don't even BELIEVE in Magick. Why am I not surprised,  considering how you attacked Donald Michael Kraig and his family while Don was in bed DYING of cancer. Hey, Roveli, since I never had the chance to tell you before, thanks for giving me the opportunity to tell you now and to your face to your face what an asshole move that was. Judging by the Kraig incident, Paul Rovelli is not a nice person. 

Paul Joseph Rovelli: Ad hominem attack is the favorite tool of intellectually inferior people...thanks for making it so obvious. And yes, belief is the tool of superstitious people...magick for those withears, operates outside this realm. 

David Griffin: I notice you never attacked Kraig when he was alive and writing on the Llewellyn blog. No. You waited until he was dying and couldn't defend himself. Or do you only attack the weak and dying?

Paul Joseph Rovell:  No I waited until his fundraiser came into my church fundraiser to try to divert funds from my efforts...and we see how the superstitious healing ritual worked regarding his cancer...eh? 

David Griffin: So the reason you attacked Donald Michael Kraig on his deathbed was because our fundraising for his medical bills was diverting money from YOU!?!?!?!?! Now I really think you are a not a good person. 

David Griffin: Yeah, right. "All magick is superstition" is the position you are arguing. Sorry. You are just plain wrong. 

Paul Joseph Rovelli: No...magick means wisdom and miracles are superstition...the formulae of magick requires tools, such as the magickal link, which was missing in your futile and ignorantly unsuccessful rite...just like your unsuccessful craigmhealing...and likemchristian prayer...asking for boons...superstitious andmstupid...magick uses a greater intell7gence than your obviously capable of. 

David Griffin: To begin with Paul, your assumption that "either you see the effects of Magick overnight or it didnt work" is just plain ignorant of how Magick really works. What kind of a Magick teacher makes statements like this? Hey, Paul I hear that James Randi is hiring. You would fit right in on his team of sceptics and debunkers.

Paul Joseph Rovelli: And again, all you can do is attack my character and not my argument...very foolish. 

David Griffin: Actually, I atacked your assumption that "either you see the effects of Magick overnight or that proves it was all just superstation.“ Such a foolish statement shows very little understanding about Magick. Care to defend that argument now that people see it for what it really is? 

Paul Joseph Rovelli: Gotta go now, but hey, keep on whining...and while your at it, show us the proof of when and how your magick will work. 

David Griffin: Of course you have to go now that you are cornered to actually defend an intellectual position instead of just name calling for a change. You should really think about taking that job with occult debunker, James Randi. Randi uses the same ridiculous arguments against Magick and Magicians that you do. The only difference between you, Paul, and James Randi is that James Randi doesn't pretend to be a Magick teacher. James Randi at least is open and honest about being a sceptic and a debunker, whereas you pretend to be a Magician while you recite James Randi's litany of arguments. I pity the students who to come to learn Magick from a debunker pretending to be a Magick teacher. You Sir, are like the blind leading the blind. 

Was I too harsh on Rovelli? I don't think so. He deserved it. Paul Rovelli is the guy who attacked the entire Golden Dawn community because we were fundraising to help with Donald Michael Kraig's medical bills while he was dying of cancer. What kind of person does something like this? Paul Rovelli is not a good person and I am grateful to have finally had the opportuinty to say it to his face.

Before I close for today, so this email isn't just about gossip, Rovelli’s arguments give me the chance to clear up a couple of points about Magick and Spellcasting:

1. Don’t expect results overnight. 

Magick doesn’t work like that. Magick does frequently produce profound results in the outer world, but things don't usually happen overnight. Just like any plant, you begin by planting seeds. Eventually, there will be fruit, but don’t expect it tomorrow.

2. Magickal links are important.

Rovelli is correct that Magick works better with a direct link to the target. Rovelli doesn’t seem to understand though that such a Magickal link can be anything from as personal as hair or nail clippings to as abstract as the logo of a company or the flag of a country. In the recent Daesh working, for example, I used the Daesh flag for this purpose. Sure, I would rather have used the turban of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, but the Daesh flag worked quite nicely any way.

3. Faith Based Magick. 

Rovelli is wrong in condemning faith based Magick. Clearly, you do not need faith for Magick to work. There are other kinds of Magick that work completely without faith. But if faith based Magick didn't work at all, Christians wouldn’t still be using prayer the way they do 2,000 years later. There are ways to make this kind of Magick work even better as well. By understanding the esoteric and magickal principles that underly faith based Magick, you can make it even more effective than simple prayer. This is one of the things we cover in our new Spellworking course.

More to come soon.

Politics: The Magick of Lies and Misdirection [Video]

Tired of lies and deception? Ready for truth no matter what? So am I.

Isis Temple At The 25th Pahrump Fall Festival Parade

Golden Dawn Cancellaria and Alexandrian Wicca HPS Leslie McQuade, assuming the Goddess-form of Isis, greets onlookers at the 25th annual Pahrump Fall Festival Parade's Isis Tenple float.

How about that Leslie McQuade? Ain't she a sweetheart?

Regardie's Confession

Regardie's Confession

In 1937 Llewellyn published the first of four volumes,

written by Israel Regardie,

that revealed the Golden Dawn Rites and teachings.

Those four volumes have been republished over and over again,

for almost 100 years.

The idea was to preserve the Golden Dawn's teachings through self study. But...

Dr. Regardie wasn't able to reveal everything!

For the first time ever, the complete, 3 order Golden Dawn Magick System is available to anyone who is bold enough and dedicated enough to learn it...

You no longer have to end your Magickal training at Minor Adept,

as has been the case for 100 years.

The Secret Masters have finally revealed the rites and rituals

to attain even Ipssissimus (10=1)

...an initiatory level many believed was only attainable on the astral

if it even existed at all!

THE WHOLE TRUTH REVEALED!  on the

Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn® website HERE!

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Columnhenge & AΩ Temple at Shadow Mountain

With only 3 days remaining before the Golden Dawn Family Reunion, there is still plenty of infrastructure to finish. Today we put up the outdoor shade structure. I am back on my feet after oral surgery, even though my face is still swollen like I just finished a bout with Rocky Balboa.

The picture above shows the work in progress on the new columnhenge. Shadow Mountain is in the background.

This year's MagickAll gathering of Magickal traditions will be held here April 10-12.

Preparations for MagickAll 2015: April 10-12, 2015 at Shadow Mountain

Maxine and Alex Sanders

Here at the Golden Dawn's Alpha Omega Temple, we are hard at work preparing for  MagickAll 2015, our yearly gathering of magickal tribes.

The event this year will be one weekend only, April 10-12. Although donations are gladly accepted, our yearly MagickAll gathering is our free-of-charge gift to the Magickal community.

In light of last year's problems, we will not release the final schedule until the last minute. Here is some of what you can expect though. 

Experts will lecture on the following Magickal traditions:

• Golden Dawn Magick Dojo
• Thelemic Magick
• British Traditional Witchcraft & Alexandrian Magick
• Shamanic Magick
• Astrology and Magick
• Hermetic Magick
• Shamanic Drumming

On Sunday, April 12 there is the possibility of Golden Dawn Neophyte initiation (prior application required). Another highlight will be an International Grand Sabbat of Alexandrian Witches.

Here is more exciting news. Saturday night's MagickAll highlight is the "Shadow Mountain Micro Burn." With the assistance of the Las Vegas' Burning Man community, we are presently lining up DJs, fire spinners, etc. It will be awesome.

Here at Shadow Mountain outside Las Vegas, we are fortunate to live on an ancient lake bottom similar to the playa at Burning Man's Black Rock City. To create enough room for the "Micro Burn, we are reconstructing and doubling the size of our dance circle.

We thought you might enjoy seeing some of the work preparing for this amazing event. Here is Golden Dawn Cancellaria, Leslie McQuade, happy as a clam at the helm of her "weapon of mass construction."

"Live Long and Prosper" A Golden Dawn Tribute to Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015)

Imperator's Vlog, February 27, 2015

Today the world grieves the passing of Leonard Nimoy, who played the original role of Mr. Spock, first officer or James T Kirk aboard the star ship Enterprise passed away today at his home in Los Angeles. He was 83. 

The first time I laid eyes on Leonard Nimoy in his role of Mr. Spock I was mesmerised. I was 11 at the time and at a boy scout meeting when I saw Mr. Spock on TV in the next room. I was drawn to him like a magnet.

That was it. Every chance I got, I found one excuse after the other not to go to boy scout meetings for the rest of the year, so that I could watch the adventures of Jim Kirk and Spock. There is no television series that had a more profound impact on my spiritual life than Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek which I discovered at a very formative age.

Leanord Nimoy, in his role as the Vulcan first officer aboard the Starship Enterprise led me to first contact with Vulcan culture. 

The Vulcans in turn led me to some of the most formative questions of my life: 

• "Are we alone in the universe? 
• "Do life forms exist beyond the limits of our perception? and 
• "If so, how can we contact them?"

These questions led me to Magick.

Leonard Nimoy. Thank you for the inspiration that led me to discover the reality of the inner planes and to establish contact with the beings living on those planes.

So tonight, in honor or your memory, and in recognition of the profound impact Spock had on my spiritual attainment, I salute you, Leonard Nimoy, and I dedicate tonight's vlog to you. 

You were - my childhood hero.

Live long and prosper, 

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Secret Chiefs REVEAL: "Why Secrecy?"

by Golden Dawn Imperator

David Griffin

The principle of initiatic secrecy is a fundamental hallmark of the Hermetic, Rosicrucian, and Golden Dawn traditions. In fact, it is an absolute cornerstone of EVERY true initiatic and arcane school.

In the case of the Golden Dawn, each new initiate is admonished to remain silent, maintain secrecy, and receives a password, "Harparkrat," the name of the Egyptian God Harpocrates, also known as Horus the Younger.

One of the first things each new Golden Dawn initiate learns is how to perform the Golden Dawn's "Sign of Silence," depicted in statues of Harpocrates holding his index finger to his lip. I recently revealed the occult use of the Sign of Silence in the Magick 101 television series. You can learn how to correctly use this incredibly powerful magickal tool HERE.

The question of the true function of secrecy arises over and over, because a lot of people mistakenly believe that secrecy is just a tool to manipulate others. Few things confuse people today about the Golden Dawn as much as the reasons for secrecy in the Golden Dawn and the Hermetic tradition.

The question came up again this week HERE on the Golden Dawn Facebook group. Several years ago, I asked my alchemical Master, Frater Lux E Tenebris to comment on the true value and function of Hermetic secrecy. Here is what he had to say.

Why Secrecy?
by Hermetic Master

 Lux E Tenebris

Thank you for inviting me to comment on the role of secrecy in the Hermetic tradition. The primary function of secrecy in esotericism is not to manipulate others, which has unfortunately been done and continues to be done in bad faith by persons who are not Hermetic Masters. A true Hermetic Master never causes his students to suffer, but maintains secrecy of the more advanced practices rather to protect the body, soul, and mind of the Apprenctice not yet prepared to assimilate these techniques, which when practiced by individuals not yet evolved enough would certainly destroy them. 

Let us take a simple example. Let us say that one of my students tries to convince me to give him or her an advanced alchemical technique. I observe in the behavior of the student that they are not yet ready to have and practice this particular processing as they have not yet reached the necessary degree of spiritual maturity. Because the disciple is insistent, however, I allow myself to be convinced, give in, and give the technique to them anyway. The student diligently begins with the practice and as a consequence either goes mad or dies, which, by the way, are very real dangers with Hermetic alchemy. 

Now why did this tragedy occur? It occurred for the simple reason that the Apprentice used an instrument much larger than themselves that requires a profound level of spiritual maturity for its use, for which the student was unprepared. No true Master Alchemist would, of course, ever give such a dangerous technique to an unprepared Disciple of the Art. 

This same line of reasoning is followed today by more advanced nations in the sense of superior democracy in regard to, for example, smaller nations still ruled by dictators that, if were they to possess atomic weapons, would use them to destroy others and themselves. Can you imagine if Osama Bin Laden were in possession of the secrets of how to build atomic weapons? This is why nations like the USA protect the secret of the creation of atomic bombs...in order to protect an infantile humanity from self-destruction. 

No Hermetic Master who is a true Master would ever give everything all at once to an Apprentice. It is the proper development and spiritual maturation of the Disciple over time that determines their capacity to assimilate more advanced spiritual techniques with their attendant higher states of awareness and realization. 

If we plant an apple tree, we accept that five long years will pass before the tree will ever bear fruit. Why then should we expect it should be different with the Secret Hermetic Science? 

Moreover, alchemical processes are not truly "secret." On the contrary, all of the secrets of true alchemical processing are described in alchemical works very clearly. It is the infantility of students or their laziness to study which prevents aspirants of alchemical wisdom from discovering for themselves the secrets of the Royal Art. 

Aspirants today are unwilling to sweat on the books and in the laboratory as have done all true Children of Hermes and thus have discovered the true significance of every term and all of the sequences to put into operation the secrets of the Great Work. 

But today, in the age of the Internet, aspirants want easy, immediate, and complete access to information. Above all, they do not want to sweat and work! 

Of course not. They want to be able to go to a bookstore and buy a book like they do with Regardie's Golden Dawn, or even better yet,Google a website and voila ... to become a Hermetic Alchemist reading in clear text all of the secrets of the Royal Art! 

Such is the mentality of the 21st Century. 

But with Hermetic Alchemy, alas, this is not possible. 

To explain why, let me give you an example from modern physics. There exist in libraries books with the knowledge to build nearly anything, either good or evil, explaining all of the accumulated science of man. 

But how many people dedicate themselves to a profound study of the matter? 

Likewise many aspire to the light but only the fewest obtain it because it is "difficult" to study and to practice. 

No...aspirants of today want to have everything clearly written and readily understandable. 

And even the Hermetic Masters are accused today that "we keep secrets only to manipulate others," merely because, as we have done for countless Centuries, we speak, write, and discourse with you using the very symbols of the Sacred Science itself. 

But were I to reveal to you the deepest and most profound secrets of alchemical processing, how many of you would understand? 

How many of you would have eyes to see? 

How many, ears to hear? 

How many would succeed to perceive the naked truth in itself? 

Few. 

In fact, only the fewest of the few. 

I repeat to you once again, as has been written and said over and over by the Hermetic sages of all ages, in words that are as true today as they were in ancient times: 

"Everything is clearly revealed, but not perceived.

Eyes behold but they do not see!

Ears listen but they do not hear!" 

Therefore I repeat: 

Just as there exist symbolical languages for physics, chemistry, and philosophy, without which you can not truly understand these sciences, so in alchemy there also exists a symbolical language that since millennia has been beneath the eyes of all in books, in cathedrals, and in every construction of the ancients. Even the fables of storybooks are full of these symbols! 

Thus you can not accuse the Hermetic alchemists of hiding things from you or speaking in riddles. It is only that we are speak in a different language, known in alchemy as "The Language of the Birds." 

How can you expect to understand this language any more than Sanskrit unless you likewise learn its rules and symbols with great effort, and to study, study, and study more? 

Thus it is not we, the Sons of Hermes that you should accuse of speaking in riddles and of keeping secrets from you! 

No. You should blame yourselves instead for not having studied enough and researched enough! 

In fact, the alchemical maxim is quite clear and enough to come to an understanding of the entire Opus: 

"Lege, lege, lege, et Inveniens." 

For those of you who have not applied yourself to understand Latin, this means in terms that even limited understanding might yet grasp: 

"Read, read, reread, and you will find." 

Thus you may understand the truth that I speak to you as all of the Sons of Hermes who have come before me have also said, that everything is already written and it is only the ignorance and the intellectual laziness of those who approach the Sacred Sciences that serve as "natural selection" to screen out the undeserving by their own work from the truly deserving that are committed to and conquer the mysteries. 

In the Sacred Science, not everything can be given to everyone even if it is revealed because: 

... the Science can not be given, but rather...

...it must be conquered. 

It is not enough to have faith to become a true Initiate, but one must above all study, work, and engage oneself to the very depths. 

How many are capable of this? 

Few. 

This is why true Initiates have "always" been few... 

...and today are even fewer. 

And everything not successfully conquered on one's own remains shrouded in mystery waiting to be discovered, and becomes "secret" only to the degree that it does not become conquered and discovered by hard work and research. 

It is like as if I should enrolls to study Physics at the University. During my first year everything that the researchers of Theoretical Physics are doing will certainly remain "secret" to me. But if I apply myself I can unlock their secrets, as they are already revealed but in a language that I must first learn. Unless I learn this language, however, theoretical physics will always remain a mystery for me. 

But to return once again to your original question: 

You ask me: 

"Why do you speak in riddles, and why have the alchemists always spoken like this as well?" 

I do not speak in riddles. I have always spoken forthright and clearly with you. 

The problem is rather with your understanding. 

I speak with symbols that you do not understand only because you have not studied them. Study the symbols of Hermetic Science and you will understand me completely. Then you asked me: 

"Is this not only a manipulation?"

I have already explained to you that unfortunately there are others who do use this science to manipulate others. I do not manipulate anyone, however. In fact, I am not even interested in having Disciples. 

...and like me, there "are" others, even if we are few.