Moina Mathers
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Search complete. 46 mentions across 6 episodes found for "Moina Mathers".
Oct 16, 2026
Frater RCHOST
He wasn't in it long enough to learn really what was going on or how the inner order worked at all.
Frater RCHOST
'Cause Mathers and Westcott were writing letters back and forth to each other discussing one of the secret chiefs, Fred or LET, Lux et Tenebris, Light in the Darkness, which was their code name for the Archangel Raphael, who was helping them construct the vault and aspects of the inner order curriculum, a lot of which Moina Mathers was scrying from with Raphael and other spirits.
Frater RCHOST
Thank you very much for the super chat, Renee.
Frater RCHOST
To understand Crowley better, not around people whom are cult of personality people, it is refreshing.
David LarkinsHOST
Yeah.
David LarkinsHOST
Annie Horniman, Malick's old contact, resigned, but then was reinstated after her conflict with Mathers in Paris escalated.
DesPANELIST
Oh shit! Why did she have a conflict with Mathers in Paris?
David LarkinsHOST
Well, Mather's living in Paris.
David LarkinsHOST
She wasn't in Paris.
David LarkinsHOST
okay um Other members, like Dr. Berridge, got suspended.
David LarkinsHOST
We have F.L. Gardner resigning from the ISIS-Urania in September and joining the Amin Ra Temple in Edinburgh because of conflicts with ISIS-Urania Temple members, including Florence Farr.
David LarkinsHOST
Around the same time, the pro- and anti-Mathers dispute within Amun-Ra led Mathers to demote the head of the temple, J.W. Brody Innes, and take direct control.
Ike BakerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We can get, lay it out for people who might, might be like, "Oh, okay.
Ike BakerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I'll go make a, I'll go make myself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich while they're talking about Arthur Edward Waite, and I'll come back for Mina Mathers."
Richard RuachGUEST
Mm.
Ike BakerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So we've got, we've got Arthur Edward Waite.
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Ike BakerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That's what we're here to do.
Ike BakerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And it's like that level of intellectual genius is not really what we're looking for.
Ike BakerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
What we're aiming for is spiritual genius, and which is, uh, as we'll probably talk about at some point later, according to people like William Wynn Westcott, Samuel Liddell Mathers, Percy Bullock, uh, Mina Mathers, they were writing about how we need to gather up the vital forces of life away from the lower centers so that we're not constantly dr- grounding them in orgiastic debauchery.
Ike BakerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And Crowley was a man who would go, and he would meditate and fast and pray for s- three weeks, four weeks, and then he would spend a week and a half living in a brothel.
Vanessa RichardsonHOST
But the Hermetic tradition taught that women and men were equals.
Vanessa RichardsonHOST
So in March of 1888, 23-year-old artist Mina Bergson was the first new member inducted into the Golden Dawn.
Vanessa RichardsonHOST
To welcome Bergson and the eight other initiates, Westcott, Woodman, and Mathers performed a ritual to move the new members from spiritual darkness towards the light of hidden knowledge.
Vanessa RichardsonHOST
Each initiate was blindfolded, then had a rope wrapped around their stomach three times, symbolizing the binding of time, space, and morality.
Vanessa RichardsonHOST
But it wasn't all hard work.
Vanessa RichardsonHOST
Temple gatherings always ended with a lively feast, and relationships blossomed between some of the members.
Vanessa RichardsonHOST
One of the founding members of the Golden Dawn, Samuel Mathers, eventually started dating Mina Bergson, the group's first initiate.
Vanessa RichardsonHOST
The two later married and moved to Paris, where she attended art school and Mathers continued studying the Cipher Documents.
Lon Milo DuQuetteGUEST
That's McGregor Mathers.
Lon Milo DuQuetteGUEST
And Moina, his wife.
Lon Milo DuQuetteGUEST
And I'm sure they were perfectly lovely people in real life.
Lon Milo DuQuetteGUEST
But in this book, they are the antagonists.
Ben CarterHOST
For patrons and organisers, the Order was also a network of ambitious, intelligent, spiritually restless people.
Ben CarterHOST
Moina Mathers, born Mina Bergson, was an artist and an important participant in the Order's creative and ceremonial work.
Ben CarterHOST
Her role should not be reduced to being Mathers' wife.
Ben CarterHOST
The available source material supports her participation and later involvement in carrying forward Mathers' branch, while warning against assigning her specific undocumented actions.
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Ben CarterHOST
Her resignation belongs to the human aftermath of the schism.
Ben CarterHOST
People who had invested years of study and status had to decide whether to stay with a faction, leave, or reinterpret what the work had meant.
Ben CarterHOST
Mathers and Moina Mathers continued their branch.
Ben CarterHOST
Other members followed other paths.