William Robert Woodman

We have Samuel Little Mathers, self-styled MacGregor, Highland Pretensions.

William Robert Woodman, Mina or Moina Mathers.

Zoom in here.

That looks like it might be Florence Farr.

He brought that energy to the Golden Dawn in declaring himself the Imperator, right? Or Imperator, which in Latin means the commander, the emperor.

And, um, as the other two chiefs, right? Because the Golden Dawn, the sort of the leadership of the order and the temple is supposed to be a, a co-equal triad.

As the other two chiefs stepped back, one of them died, right? William Robert Woodman.

But as...

All the text in these documents was written in code, which was how they came to be known as the Cipher Documents.

Westcott loved a good mystery, so he enlisted his two SRIA friends, Samuel Mathers and William Woodman, to help him crack the code.

After several months of study, they finally succeeded.

The Cipher Documents were sort of like a class syllabus for studying esoteric traditions from all over the world.

Westcott and his friends eagerly agreed.

The knowledge contained in the Cipher Documents was far beyond anything they'd learned studying Rosicrucianism within the Freemasons, and they were sick of sharing their knowledge with people who just wanted to gossip, drink, and host dinner parties.

On February 12th, 1888, William Westcott, William Woodman, and Samuel Mathers signed loyalty pledges to a new society dedicated to the study of the occult.

They called it the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.