Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

The nightmare world of Christianity vanished at the dawn… The obsession of sin fell from my shoulders into the sea of oblivion. I had been overwhelmed be the appalling responsibility of ensuring my own damnation and helping others to escape Jesus. I found that the world was, after all, full of delightful damned souls; of people who accepted nature as she is, accepted their own place in nature and enjoyed it,” (Booth 26). This experience is yet another liberation for Crowley. In the year 1895, Crowley enrolled at Trinity College, Cambridge. From this endeavor a few fun and almost unbelievable stories arise. Aleister Crowley has a passion for chess, and could eventually play several games at one time! However the most ridiculous, although true, story is this, “On one occasion, Crowley was in a bedroom having sex while, next door, a friend sat at a chess board. The bedroom door being open, Crowley responded to each move without breaking his stroke, so to speak — and he won the game.” (Booth 52). An outrageous story, which caries exquisitely the character of Aleister Crowley, a man of intellect and extreme sexual curiosity. In this story his passion of chess and sex are combined, while the audience of such a tale is left wondering why the friend and the sexual partner agreed to such an activity. After spending three years at university, Aleister Crowley joined his first cult. “Standing in the temple of the Order of the Golden Dawn, beaming with relief and joy, he knew he had…

problem. The Golden Dawn’s plan on the surface seems like a beacon of hope for Greece. The Golden Dawn says, “We have to take care of the economy, illegal immigrants, and politicians who stole the money” (Ghafour). This may…

This is actually a preliminary ritual to purify space and call upon the guardians of the four quarters, similar to casting the magic circle in Wicca. The Watchtowers were among the Golden Dawn concepts introduced into Wicca by its founder Gerald Gardner. The complicated tablets and Enochian names were largely abandoned, but Wicca retained the Watchtowers as "the four cardinal points, regarded as guardians of the Magic Circle". They are usually mentioned during the casting of the circle. In a…

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His legacy was cemented with the founding of a mystical order along with the reformulating of another mysterious order; his writings have also influenced countless occult organizations. According to the article, “Thelemic Organizations,” found on thelema101.com, the three major organizations that were either founded by Aleister or influenced by him are the: Ordo Templis Orientis, Gnostic Catholic Church, and A.’A.’ These organizations champion themselves on following the original teachings of…