Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

And I always like prying the lid back and looking in and studying some of their documents and texts, but not getting engaged.

One of the things that is exceedingly dangerous, like Enochian magic, the keys of Solomon, the lesser greater keys, all these, the golden dawn, golden dawn everyone knows about, Of course, as we know, the Golden Dawn was really created by A.E. Waite and Mathers, and I think one other individual, finding a bunch of books in a book stall in London.

That's how the Golden Dawn came about in the 1800s.

And everybody thinks, oh, they were all these great mystics.

Well, they might've been, but they stumbled onto these documents and texts, which interestingly enough was from a lady out of Germany.

The older one is Alistair Crowley, 34 years old, a poet, a mountaineer and a magician, and already notorious.

Years before, he had joined a secret society in London called the Golden Dawn, where Dee's angelic calls were taught alongside tarot and ritual magic.

In those years, all of Europe seemed hungry for hidden wisdom, for masters in the Himalayas and secret teachings from the East.

Crowley wanted more than talk.

You need a Crowley expert for that.

But what he's most famous for is his involvement in the Golden Dawn, then his rewriting of the rituals of the Ordo Templi Orientis, and any involvement with the French, British, and German occult revivals of the late 19th and early 20th century were going to be done within a Masonic framework.

And that's maybe where some of the interesting confusion comes in.

Because you have, I think, all of the key founders of the Golden Dawn were Masons they were involved in the Masonic Rosicrucian Society who still exists today and as variations around the world and that then becomes a mechanism a gathering space for people who know ritual know how to memorize are fairly well educated fairly well connected they know how to get along and get things done more or less and And we know they understand there's something else because of symbolism.

They then come together and say, hey, we got this new group in town, the Golden Dawn or whatever, you know, we're saying.

And that's where it becomes a place for gathering members.

The same thing in many ways with Martinism in France, with Gérard Ducruz and the various Rosicrucian groups that were arising in France at that time, too.

It has ceremonies, grades of advancement, instruction reserved for members, and leaders whose standing seems to reach beyond the ordinary world.

The organization is called the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.

Crowley is about to enter it with an expectation much larger than membership of a club.

He wants the people behind the books, and the powers he believes their teaching can reveal.

or I think that's sleep deprivation, but flow tanks.

And I covered this because there's also times in the OTO and Golden Dawn in their initiations.

In my opinion, the Golden Dawn pretty much admits it online.

But I do think the OTO tries to do it itself.

It tries to kind of put you in like a situation where it's very dark, it's an empty room, and that kind of will start, your body will actually start to, your mind, will start to kind of lose where it ends and where it begins.

Baseline.

Even with sigils, like real quick, there's a thing called flashing colors.

And whenever you're working like Crowley, well, it came before Crowley, the Golden Dawn, even Crowley and other ceremonial magicians from the 1800s, 1900s, they have all suggested that there's like these certain color combinations that go together when you make a talisman,

But when there's too much of a,

oh, my God, you're a Golden Dawn adept.

Can I touch you? Then I'm like.

don't write to me anymore please like stop or adjust the way that you're talking like okay i'll speak to you as an equal read my book it would mean a lot to me no no no no don't give me homework either please fuck you know um Yeah, or whatever.

And then finally got to the point where I was like, I'm so fucking over it.

But I did drain half my life into this path, so I'm going to wear this every third episode of my silly-ass YouTube channel.

And then people get confused and think that that means that I'm ready to be their Golden Dawn guru or something.

It's like, no, no, no, no.

But when there's too much of a,

oh, my God, you're a Golden Dawn adept.

Can I touch you? Then I'm like.

don't write to me anymore please like stop or adjust the way that you're talking like okay i'll speak to you as an equal read my book it would mean a lot to me no no no no don't give me homework either please fuck you know um Yeah, or whatever.

And then finally got to the point where I was like, I'm so fucking over it.

But I did drain half my life into this path, so I'm going to wear this every third episode of my silly-ass YouTube channel.

And then people get confused and think that that means that I'm ready to be their Golden Dawn guru or something.

It's like, no, no, no, no.