Theos-Talk Archives (May 1996 Message tl00873)

In message <2.2.32.19960515060330.006bdc3c@mail.slip.net>, alexis
dolgorukii <alexei@slip.net> writes
>Martin: I have had experience with more than one "Order of The Golden Dawn"
>Including "The New Reformed Order Of The Golden Dawn" IN Berkeley California
>which makes no pretense at all to being a serious magical order. They at
>least are honest, which is a positive thing. The other Groups of people I
>have encountered calling themselves Golden Dawn are on "head trips"....I do
>not think there has been any really valid Ceremonial Magic going on under
>that name in a long long time, lot's of ceremony but almost no magic. They
>are certainly NOT a "Mystery School" they do not meet any of the criteria.
>
>alexis d.

There was for a time a group in London England claiming the GD
"succession" but it is doubtful. R.A. ("Bob") Gilbert here in my home
town has written on the GD and it's history, and has an archive of
original material some people would drool over.  He has been published
in the UK by Element Books, and is probably available in the US, which
he visits regularly.  Like me, he was a member of Bristol Lodge, but is
about to go unattached ("At large").  Try looking him up as author in
reference libraries ask in occult bookshops.

Something for historians of TS to drool over - Bob has at long last
tracked down some *very scarce and original* T.S. material dealing with
the CWL affair.  Definitely not for Liesel :-(

We shall be publishing it in due course under Bob's "Abraxas" imprint.

Alan
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