New Series!
as revealed by
Frater Lux e Tenebris
In this new series, the Secret Chiefs answer sincere questions directly from the public. If you have a question, please post it in the comments section. All questions are reviewed by the Council of 12 Magi, and one will be selected to be answered in each episode of this new series!
Episode 1
"What is the Alpha Omega?"
Everyone knows actually very little about this order that has been called by the name "Alpha Omega," revealed only timidly at the beginning of last century, yet that has other names hidden in the flow of time.
When this order was revealed for the first time, it was intended to lightly suggest the other mysteries related to it.
I hope that some might have understood from the meaning of these two letters, AO, posed as an abbreviation for the name of the order, Alpha Omega.
Everyone supposed that it referred to the Apocalypse of John and the beginning and the end of time. Everyone supposed that it referred to the word of Jesus Christ, as Alpha Omega.
Rites of Isis: Moina and S.L. MacGregor Mathers
But no one understood the true scope and true meaning of these words. These Greek words reflect rather upon the message and mission of this order, as they should also have done also in the Rites of Isis of S.L. MacGregor Mathers and his wife, Moina, had they not failed in their purpose. Mathers and his wife were too attached to the Christian symbolism in the Golden Dawn, which therefore colored anything they did or would ever do.
But the actual message is different, and alludes to the actual mysteries, upon which the ediface of Christianity itself was erected; extremely ancient mysteries that shortly after Mathers, would explode in the so-called Pagan Renaissance.
Indeed, the Golden Dawn itself is but a revestiment of ancient Pagan mysteries in primarily Christian and Rosicrucian symbols, given a Freemasonic ritual structure, as suitable to be easily understood in 19th century England.
These are the same ancient Pagan mysteries encoded in the rites and symbols of nascient Christianity itself, that they should not perish with the rise of the aggressive new religion.
The Alpha Omega, however, has always rested upon a solid foundation of Pagan mysteries, although it does not reject the Christian symbolism of the Golden Dawn.
Thus the AO inevitably incorporates also the mysteries of King Arthur and the Saga of the Grail. Dion Fortune intuited this and, in fact, in her literary works makes clear the direction in which she pursued her initiatic life.
The mysteries of the saga of King Arthur and the Kights of the Round Table are the background and introduction to the true esoteric mysteries transmitted in the practices of the AO.
If one wishes to understand the true initiatic path of the Alpha Omega, these mysteries must be thoroughly mastered.
One must consider the preliminary practices of magic and the magic of human development similar to the Golden Dawn and to many other initiatic schools, before proceeding onward, after having mastered such practices.
Let us consider the Arthurian mysteries and the appeal to Pagan knowledge in Europe before Christ. From the union and mingling of these two mysteries, the ancient Pagan mysteries and the modern ones reformulated in Christian symbolism, we can enter into a true understanding of the mysteries of the Alpha Omega.
The AO is ecumenical and nonsectarian, because it incorporates multiple mysteries and symbol systems and is not merely framed in those of sectarian Christianity alone, which was deviated over the centuries and millennia from the minds of that religion to be a vehicle of slavery to dogmas at times absurd.
We see this reflected in the Golden Dawn today in the myriad Christian oriented "Golden Dawn" orders, which, unlike the ecumenical Alpha Omega, stubbornly insist on maintaining sectarian polarisation and conflict in the Golden Dawn community. Indeed, such dogmatic sectarianism, imported from Christianity, has proven the bane of the Golden Dawn for decades.
Alpha Omega, on the other hand, is a symbol that connects the masculine and feminine, which is already enough to make us hated by Christian movements for the mere fact that in their creed the sacred feminine does not exist, except in the function of the Virgin Mary, denying all other aspects - indeed for centuries actually diabolizing the sacred feminine.
The Golden Dawn, whose mysteries have been completely profaned through publication, has today descended into sectarian chaos, like a tree torn out of the fertile Earth, slowly dying with its roots exposed to the to the otherwise nourishing rays of the Sun.
I can in such a public arena not say much of the mysteries of the Alpha Omega, for this order still remains internally pure and pristine, with its AO mysteries unprofaned, and its roots shrouded in secrecy, drawing nourishment deep inside the fertile Earth.
This is why, despite decades of persecution by sectarian intrigue, the AO has survived and today remains a healthy and growing organism, rising above the chaos presently eating at the heart of the Golden Dawn.
Again, since the mysteries of the Alpha Omega remain oath-bound and unprofaned, it has only been permitted to me to make such vague hints here as to their true nature. This I have done at the invitation of Frater Lux ex Septentrionis, so as to give renewed hope to those who may have become discouraged with the current sad state of the Golden Dawn, which David Griffin has so masterfully revealed on this wonderful blog.
The Golden Dawn Blog has become a shining example of the freedom of thought and expression made possible by the Blogosphere, giving hope to serious researchers and sincere seekers - who are neither sectarian nor racist - that the TRUTH is not dead beneath heavy and unnecessarily repressive vestiments, whether Christian or those of any other stripe.
This truth continues to survive in secret and is available to all those with a pure heart, who hear the call of chivalry stir within.
To all those Knights and Ladies, still heeding the call of Chivalry in these modern times, I say:
To all those Knights and Ladies, still heeding the call of Chivalry in these modern times, I say:
"Take heart! We are here and the ancient mysteries still remain intact. These mysteries remain pure and uncontaminated by the absurd notions of those who seek but to dominate you! To those of you who hear the call to freedom within, knock upon the doors of the Alpha Omega, and if your heart be pure, they shall open wide to receive you."
