MEME WARS! (Meme Of The Month Awards)

MEME OF THE MONTH!

Leslie McQuade and I are impressed by all the energy some people spend "trying" to attack us with memes. Over the years, I have lovingly referred to these guys as our "paparazzi."

Let's be clear. Most of their stuff just SUCKS. But then again, every once in a while, they make something that is actually funny.

WE LOVE OUR PAPARAZZI! Please do not stop making memes attacking us. We do not want you to stop. We only want you to not suck as bad as you do. We want you to make great memes that are actually funny.

We therefore have decided to reward all of your hard work by beginning a new series here on the Golden Dawn blog, the "Meme Of The Month Awards."

MEME OF THE MONTH GETS A $50 PRIZE!

Here are a few of this month's runners up!

FIRST RUNNER UP!

SECOND RUNNER UP!

THIRD RUNNER UP!

FOURTH RUNNER UP

This month we are also giving a special award for "PENIS ENVY OF THE MONTH."

Here is our winner!

PENIS ENVY MEME OF THE MONTH!

To which Aaron Leitch replied...

Keeping up with the Griffins again Aaron? Congrats on your farm!

How long until it's paid off and the bank no longer holds your title?

We bought Columnhenge outright.

Have a nice day!

- David Griffin

Spy vs. Spy, Useful Idiots, and British Intelligence Manipulating Our Spiritual Community

It has come to my attention that the members of our order are under attack yet AGAIN by "historical revisionist" intelligence operatives spreading disinformation on-line.

These pathetic spooks and their useful idiots, posing as "traditional Rosicrucians," in reality are just secret SATANISTS who have been trying to rewrite our order out of HOGD history for decades (following to their intelligence agency's hidden agenda).

Why have they been attacking us now for 2 decades? Because MI-6 wants to control the Golden Dawn! We won't let them!

They attack us again today, because they are DESPERATE. We are growing like mad and have many THOUSANDS of members around the world, whereas these useful idiot "wannabe Rosicrucians" lead 2 member orders with only themselves and their wives as members in their garage.

In truth, these wannabe "Rosicrucian" posers are not even real Magicians. They certainly aren't spiritual leaders or they would have actual students. (They have none.)

As the old saying goes, "By their fruits shall ye know them," and the only fruit ever to come from the tree of these intel spooks is the fruit of constant shit stirring trying to manipulate our spiritual community with disinformation.

For an ACCURATE modern history of of the HOGD, please see the modern section of this article on the HOGD (AΩ) website here:

https://www.golden-dawn.com/eu/displaycontent.aspx?pageid=71

These spooks are so arrogant that they are bound to continue attacking the many members of our order with disinformation.

They are completely predictable and they will certainly continue to attack our Rosicrucian community. Stick around, because for as long as they attack, I will continue to expose their entire playbook of tactics and methods here on the Golden Dawn Blog. 

This will be fun. Stay tuned for more bombshell news!

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

THE ORDER: Netflix' Latest Satanist Series - This Time Defaming the Golden Dawn

by Golden Dawn Imperator

David Griffin

THE ORDER

The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn must be doing something right when they have to start making TV series to defame the HOGD (AΩ) and conflate us with Satanism!


Leslie McQuade and I actually had a look at the new Netflix series, The Order, last night. 


We have to watch that trash if for no other reason, just to see for sure what they are up to. 

As expected, there is plenty of applied anthropology involved and the tropes are the same Hollywood always uses. 

Satanists in Hollywood have for many years been carefully crafting the myth in film and on television that ALL magick is Black Magick. 

Where do you see the Magick of Light in this show or, for example, in other Netflix Satanist fare like "Sabrina"? YOU DON'T. 

But at least in Sabrina, you expect that nonsense, because they are all overt Satanists. This new show is far more insidious. 

In this new show they call the order the "Hermetic Order of the Blue Rose," an obvious knock off of the HOGD. 

But of course, they are all BLACK MAGICIANS, and you have the usual Satanist trope that "all magick comes with a price" (when in reality this is only true for black magick). 

Sure there are heroes in the show, but are these Magicians of Light? Nope. Werewolves! How predictable, since according to Hollywood (and EA Koetting and his ilk) "The ONLY magick there is is Black Magick."  (I call BULLSHIT!). 

Of course, you can't get through even 3 episodes before you have The Order engaged in human sacrifice (yawn). I have little doubt they will also make them cannibals before the first season is over. This tar and feathering of everything light has become the typical propaganda fare coming out of Hollywood of late.

Finally, in season one we have "The Order" obsessed with recovering a magical book, the VERUM MALUM or some other Satanic bastardized Latin title. 

Is it pure coincidence that this comes out at the same time the HOGD is reviving the Lost Magick of Jesus as contained in the lost Book of IEOU? 

Must be, because the alternative gives the HOGD far too much importance. But still, are not all of these "coincidences" just a bit too much to be purely random.

In conclusion, this is your typical Satanist crap we have all grown accustomed to coming out of Hollywood. The program is completely unimaginative and contains all of the Satanist propaganda you expect from occult series coming out of Hollywood in recent years.

"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, 

Spock - old friend - on the other side.

REVEALED: Israel Regardie's Rose+Cross Lamen

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by Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn®

Imperator David Griffin

Israel Regardie

In the late 1970's Israel Regardie, together with Cris Monnastre (his primary disciple) performed a long series of magickal rituals with the intention of causing a Golden Dawn resurgence. Considering the flourishing Golden Dawn today, this was clearly one of the most influential, successful magickal workings in modern history. Cris Monnastre, one of only two individuals ever initiated by Israel Regardie into the Golden Dawn's Inner Order, was my first initiator as well. When she decided to retire from the Golden Dawn in 1994, Cris Monnastre gifted all of Regardie's magickal tools to me personally, to empower me in leading the Golden Dawn into the 21st Century.

As important as Israel Regardie's personal magickal weapons are in and of themselves, the crown jewel of the Regardie collection is today not a magickal tool created by Regardie himself, but rather a Rose+Cross lamen gifted to Regardie by Alpha Omega Adept, Elsa Barker (1869–1954), a direct magical link to Golden Dawn founder, S.L. MacGregor Mathers.

Israel Regardie's Rose Cross Lamen
(Gifted to Regardie by MacGregor Mathers Envoy, Elsa Barker)

Elsa Barker

Elsa Barker was instrumental in bringing the Golden Dawn to America, as she frequently carried documents and messages back and forth between S.L. MacGregor Mathers in Paris and the Alpha Omega temples flourishing in America. 

Barker was born in Leicester, Vermont and became an American novelist and poet. Barker lived most of her adult life in New York City. From 1910 to 1914, she lived in Paris, where she was initiated in S.L. MacGregor Mathers’ Rosicrucian Order of Alpha et Omega. As Barker frequently traveled between Paris and the USA, Elsa Barker became MacGregor Mathers’ emissary to the American temples of the A.O. 

S.L. Macgregor Mathers

The minute book of Mathers' Ahathoor temple mentions that, on July 3, 1911, just prior to Elsa Barker’s return to the USA, Mathers had received applications from 9 members to form yet another new temple, Neith Temple No. 10 in America.

Barker produced through automatic writing the scripts for Letters from a Living Dead Man (1914), War Letters from the Living Dead Man (1915), and Last Letters from a Living Dead Man (1919). These remarkable communications attracted much attention in England, where they were first published. At the time the scripts were produced, Elsa Barker was new to automatic writing, and was also unaware that the communicator (subsequently identified as David P. Hatch, a Los Angeles lawyer), who signed the communications "X," had passed away. These letters record the impressions of an intelligent traveler in a strange country, his mistakes, prejudices, ideals, and new insights.

Elsa Barker's other publications include The Son of Mary Bethel (1909), The Frozen Grail & Other Poems (1910), Stories from the New Testament for Children (1911), The Body of Love (1912), Fielding Sargent (1922), The Cobra Candlestick (1928), The C.I.D. of Dexter Drake (1929), and The Redman Cave Murder (1930). Barker died August 31, 1954. 

Her rose-cross remains today a crown jewel in Mather's Rosicrucian Order of Alpha et Omega, and our outer order, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. At all official Inner Order functions, it is with great pride that I wear at all Golden Dawn Inner Order functions.

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Wearing Israel Regardie's Rose Cross Lamen

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Secrets of Magick that Works

Core Golden Dawn 2: Problems G.D. Magicians Solve & Questions We Ask

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by Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn®

Imperator David Griffin

Lesson Two:

"As a Golden Dawn Magician, 
what kind of problems do you try to solve?

What kinds of questions do you ask?"

Hermetic Magick and Alchemy arose in ancient Egypt and come to you across Centuries - passed down for Millennia from Hermetic Master to Disciple in an unbroken chain of Adepts. 

The questions you ask as a Golden Dawn Magician are:

• 1) How can I become more than human?
• 2) What are the techniques or practices that can unchain my Divine Spark to fully emerge and manifest within me?
• 3) How should I live and work internally to reach this objective?

As a consequence of these questions, the problems you must resolve as a Golden Dawn Magician are posed by the practice of true and ancient techniques provided by traditional initiatic science.

The first problem involves the reliability of methods, which have been tested over generations of previous practitioners. For example, Kerstin Johnson from Stockholm, Sweden recently wrote: 

"Since working with Golden Dawn Magick, I've noticed a marked difference in my approach to common problems, increased patience, and a serious boost to my intuitive abilities."

A second problem as a Golden Dawn Magician you try to solve involves the ability to learn and practice ancient methods correctly rather than according to your own understanding, which can distort and negate their efficacy.

The third and most important problem you try to solve as a Golden Dawn Magician is how to develop your energetic body. To get the most out of Golden Dawn Magick, you must over time develop your energetic body, integrate it into daily life, and use it frequently, as you do your physical body. As you begin to feel the physically perceptible energy in your astral body grow and strengthen, you will ultimately gain physical confirmation you are on the right path in cultivating your energetic Soul.

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Secret Chiefs Reveal Hidden Nature of Golden Dawn Grades

by guest blogger

Frater Lux E Tenebris

special envoy of the

Secret Chiefs 
of the
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I have been asked by the Council of 12 Magi of our august Order, to write about the traditional meaning and true initiatic function of the three degrees of the Second Order of the Golden Dawn (R.R. et A.C.).

The three Adept grades incorporated in the Rosicrucain Tradition are actually re-elaborations of extremely ancient mysteries that have always accompanied humankind since the beginning of its appearance on this earth.

Human beings are born and live with the passing of their lives and the approach of death ever present before our eyes. The birth, life, death and resurrection of the plant world did not escape the careful eye of the ancients. They wondered why it is that what happened in the plant world did not also happen in the world of animals and human beings. The ancients observed that, from the seed of grain was grain reborn, as were human beings from human seed, even if diverse.

In this perfecting the knowledge of nature, the ancients noticed also that the Sun was likewise born, died and was reborn - as was the moon, and as the heavens presented the stars and the planets. In fact, everything in life spoke of this cycle of birth, death and resurrection. It did not take long for the ancients to realize that every law they observed was the same for every thing that could ever be discovered or comprehended.

The Universe is order from chaos and therefore is subject to precise laws that are inviolable and eternal. The universe has two properties: eternity and infinity. The Universe is infinite, as it contains everything that exists. The Universe is eternal, as visible material expression of Beingness.

The Universe, within itself, is mutable and cyclical. The elements contained within the Universe therefore transform into infinite gradations of matter and energy, and this movement, evolution or devolution leads to the creation of Time.

Humankind is a creation of the Universe - and human beings within themselves contain all three of the preceding kingdoms; mineral, vegetable, and animal. Moreover, in human beings Soul, Mind, and Consciousness manifest, being that which makes us human.

As human beings, we notice that our bodies are born, live, and die. By analogical observation, which is the cornerstone upon which all of Magic rests, we discover that our bodies are subject to the same laws like all other things. By noting how the Sun returns, the Moon returns, the seasons return, and plants are reborn - we discover how we are subject to the same fate: Birth-Life-Death-Rebirth.

The point of this is that, as the ancients said, there are only two possibilities for a human being; to be reborn as human or to be reborn as a Soul. With the term Soul, I intend to describe the subtle and invisible complex within human beings, and not just one part of it, which for the purposes of this discussion would be useless.

In Egypt the dead were embalmed and then awakened or caused to be reborn, with particular and energetic practices which coagulated the subtle remains of the deceased, in such a manner that his consciousness could rest upon it and thus live a sort of life beyond the grave.

And the Limbo, the Elysian fields, or Underworld, the Duat, etc. - This inner dimension of man is known by many names - but in any case it means always the one and the same thing.

The initiatic schools, have therefore long understood that the only key, be it to understand nature and therefore the entire universe, or be it to transform a human being, is precisely the perennial law of analogy.

Departing from here, we can observe an entire proliferation of rites and practices analogous to the cycles of time of the earth, the sun, the moon, or stars. This is to ensure that humankind enters into the great cosmic harmony that turns eternally, and thus evolves according a universal law, namely: In the universe things transform from for worse to better as well as from better to worse. In modern times, this is known as the Law of Thermodynamics. For our purposes, however, it is enough to know that this is Eternal Universal Law.

Mystery Schools and initiatic rites can not escape this general universal rule, and thus we find them again and again all across the world, coupled with the eternal laws of the birth of life, of death and of rebirth. Here in the West, we can observe this also in Christianity, the dominant religion of the day, but each initiatic order also has its own corpus of special initiatic doctrines and practices, which cause their disciples to advance along these lines. To this, there are no exceptions.

Thus we arrive at the Second Order of the Golden Dawn, the R.R. et A.C., which as already stated for the other orders, can not escape this rule as an expression of the eternal laws governing everything. In fact, upon initiation in the Neophyte grade of the Outer Order of the Golden Dawn, a new life begins for the candidate.

This entire new life unfolds for the initiate in the grades leading up to Philosophus. Next, the candidate encounters the mysteries of the Divine for the first time in the Portal of the Vault of the Adepts. This transitional grade essential for the incubation of the new Soul in preparation for the second initiatic ordeal - Death following the birth that constituted the first such ordeal as a Neophyte.

In the Adeptus Minor (5=6) ritual, in documents and practices furnished to me not by the R.R. et A.C., but rather by the R+C Order from which the R.R. et A.C. arises, the following is said, which is precise and incontrovertible:

"The Mystery School into which you have been initiated is not a school of mysticism, but rather a school of active Magic. In this order we study the Principles of Sacred Science from a scientific point of view, instead of from the mystical or emotional point of view of religions.

In this Mystery School which transmits the teachings of ancient Mystery Schools of Sumeria, Chaldea, Assyria and Egypt, you will find neither superstition nor obscurantism. We will reveal to you the true inner structure of human beings and their true relationship with the Universe: For this reason, disciple, be ready to follow the course in every phase and fear not the death you shall face..."

This is the grade corresponding to the Adeptus Minor (5=6) of the R.R. et A.C. in the Order, which shall remain unnamed, yet is the foundation and root of all Rosicrucian mysteries ever transmitted in the West

Next, in the ritual which is the source of the 6=5 in the R.R. et A.C., it is written:

"I have died - and now I voyage in unknown realms with my boat (an image of the Subtle Body). Although dead, I am and live in this endless sea, joyous in the knowledge that the body is not everything!

Now I know! Now I can meet my brothers and sisters and receive from them the power of contact with the things above and the things below ..."

For now I shall not dwell upon explaining these words, but shall return to them, once we have first examined the following from the ritual which was the source document for the Adeptus Exemptus (7=4) of the R.R. et A.C.:

"I know you Death - And yet I live! I am dead and I have been reborn. I have conquered death - and I rise like the sun on the horizon. My journey in the world beyond the tomb is accomplished - and now I return with the earth in blossom."

In this journey we may observe and note precisely what happens throughout the universe - and thus also the human beings on their journey towards regeneration.

In these three grades transmitted to the R.R. et A.C. by the mysterious Order from which the Rosicrucian impulse first arose, it is explained in the instructions to the Adept that this is not a path of mysticism and certainly not a path for many - that when we speak of death, you truly die - and that when we speak of journeying beyond the tomb - you truly travel - and when we speak of rebirth - you are truly reborn and not merely symbolically or metaphorically.

Inside of the human being who undergoes these initiations and performs these techniques, changes that occur are not merely mental, but also energetic, biological, and cellular.

Using techniques of Superior Magic of the Adeptus Major (6=5) grade, it becomes possible to have the same experiences as when you die, as all attest who have gone this way before. Once you are "dead" you find yourself in a place that is neither heaven nor earth. In this place, called "beyond the tomb," "dubat," etc., for the first time, you encounter your own complexes of the mind and of the Soul. No longer trapped in the physical body of the Adept, these now take on tangible, visible appearance. It is these which torture or delight the Soul.

If the mysteries of death are those of the Adeptus Minor, who sacrifices him or her-self scientifically, in order to transform into a different substance (as can be observed in any cabinet of chemistry or physics laboratory where matter is studied), then in the grade of Adeptus Major (6=5), consciousness is gained in the LITERAL sense."

The Major Adept encounters these Spirits, Angels, or Demons, meets these energies, gains consciousness of them, gets to know them there, and returns from "beyond the tomb" changed forever, as True Magic and its functions are revealed in subtle detail.

During the 6=5 initiation of an Adeptus Major, a special magical technique is employed, which LITERALLY detaches the soul of the candidate, separating it from the physical body, so that the Adept may have the literal experience of what actually happens when you die.

I understand there have been, and still remain, leaders of orders who have never had contact with the true R+C source. Based merely on their fantasy of the function of these rites, these individuals would nonetheless like to convince you that these sacred rituals and techniques are merely symbolical or mystical. I swear to you, however, that this is not so.

The three Adept rituals of the R.R. et A.C. are but one valid albeit late manifestation of earlier Rosicrucian rites that contain the knowledge of death, the knowledge of the universe beyond, and of rebirth and regeneration. These rites, which TOGETHER contain the requisite knowledge to become a TRUE Adept, are in reality but three degrees in one.

There have been orders that have already deviated these rites and there are others too today who would lead you even further astray. Some today write even that there is no magic beyond the Adeptus Minor (5=6) grade, and that the Major initiation of Rosicrucian Adepts, the Adeptus Major (6=5) is but a mystical appendage of the 5=6 - that there is no place in the 6=5 for advanced Rosicrucian magic, and that the 7=4 is but yet more mysticism.

Our august Order breaks its silence therefore today, so that the original essence of these essential Rosicrucian rites might not be lost merely to a thirst for innovation, led by a chorus of experts who, perhaps even meaning well, would nonetheless otherwise lead you astray.

In the tomb, in which the Major Adept is enclosed, there is all of his/her consciousness, and in the "world beyond the tomb," the consciousness of the Adept encounters the consciousness of Nature, once the consciousness of the Adept has been detached from its physical vehicle by 6=5 rites of Magic.

Once the Adept's consciousness has been magically detached from his or her physical body, he or she then confronts what the Adept knew or thought to be - with what is in reality, and thus can make a complete correction in the eyes of God. It is in the 6=5 grade of Adeptus Major, therefore, that contact can truly be stabilized with one's higher Self, Divine essence, or "Angel" (and not in the 5=6, as has been popularly misunderstood for over a century). It through the the contact that comes from the sojourn in the Underworld in the 6=5 grade, that, in addition to one's earthly guides, one who knows death gains also the guidance from one's Divine source.

The Major Adept knows death, yet the victory is not yet fully won. As the Hermetic adage states, "you must not only separate the volatile from the fixed. It must not only ascend to heaven, but it must also descend to Earth again empowered with the knowledge of superior and inferior things. Then the volatile must once again be reunited with the fixed. Only then will the Earth be reborn and regenerated, and the physical and magical powers of the Adept blossom like the flowers in Spring.

Far removed from all metaphor and mysticism, the LITERAL bath of the Adept in the Upper Astral realm, where resides that which does not live on Earth, reawakens the powers slumbering within the Adept. Thus, it is upon entering the 7=4 that the keys are bestowed of how to use these awakened powers for the common good, as well as to lead the Order. This is why the power to reconstitute the Order, if necessary, has at all times in history resided with Exempt Adepts, together with the Hermetic and Rosicrucian lineages of our Order, as is also the case with the Golden Dawn.

Magical and alchemical techniques are given in this grade that carry the Adept to triumph in his or her Opus Magnum (Great Work). Far from all metaphor and mysticism, these techniques are physical, observable, and have nothing to do with mysticism, obfuscation, or the sort of smoky theological arguments about these grades that have appeared in books and on the Internet of late.

The rest, or everything else that occurs later, can not be comprehended by those who have not yet reached such an advanced state of spiritual development, since the manner in which the human machine functions - and the Soul that inhabits it - are so different to that which we are accustomed to think and see, that it would appear to be but a fairy tale.

In this state, the Adept comes to understand the language of Nature, even to perceive and to comprehend the Universal movements of the Spheres. The Adept understands even life and death, living on the extreme peak of both. The Soul of the Adept is quiet and balanced - and nothing can shake this Soul - becoming what Agrippa called a Static Soul - a Soul tranquil, equilibrated, and no longer fluctuating.

Thus we witness the miracle of the trinity of grades of the true Rosicrucian Adept, the nature and purpose of which is totally different than what people had come to think and write of them today. Although to the outside, these initiations appear to be three grades, they are in reality but one deeply profound initiatic process, which fully develops the Soul of the Adept.

The Magi of the Order from which the Rosicrucian tradition first arose, including the R.R. et A.C., asked me to write this article, so that all may better understand the R.R. et A.C. and benefit from the true Rosicrucian manner in which the Second Order of the Golden Dawn has been intended all along.

Trusting fully in my disciple, Frater Lux ex Septentrionis, I accept that today, there is a need for diversity in the Golden Dawn orders. Nonetheless, there is a limit to what can or should be changed, and certain essential things should not be touched at all.

If the original R+C tradition is not to be lost completely in America and the English speaking world, it is even more important that at least some Golden Dawn orders remain not only faithful to the original Rosicrucian tradition, as does the Alpha et Omega - but faithful even to the dark and hidden roots from which the R+C rose first grew, and continues to nourish itself even until today.

Thus, in this strange, modern world of the Internet in which we live today - where one writer claims that "the higher R.R. et A.C. grades not magical, but rather mystical in nature" and another writes that "tradition must be sacrificed to intellect in order to achieve Gnosis..."

I am reminded of the words of Jesus the Christ who, according to the Johannite tradition, is reputed to have said:

"They are like the blind leading the blind!"

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Core Golden Dawn 1: "What is the Purpose of Golden Dawn Magick?"

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by Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn®

Imperator David Griffin

Lesson One: 

"What is the main purpose or goal...
...of the Golden Dawn System of Magic?"

"What are G.D. Magicians trying to accomplish?"

The main purpose and objective of the Golden Dawn system of Magic is the emergence into full consciousness of the Divine Spark that lies within each of us, which is stifled by contemporary education and by life experience reliant exclusively on the senses. Magicians seek to complete their energetic evolution in their lifetime, described by the Golden Dawn as:

"To become more than human!"

In the beginning, much wisdom can be gained through critical thinking about Magick; posing good questions, reflecting upon them, and at length discovering answers for one's self. Ultimately, Magick is a journey of Self-discovery. although Magickal training provides the skills needed to unleash the dormant powers of the Soul.

I invite you to begin exploring Core Golden Dawn concepts with me by reflecting upon the following questions.

What does it really mean ...

"to be human?"

What does it truly mean ...

"to become more than human?"

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