Ascending to the Gods
Are you interested in Sam Webster’s talk at PantheaCon, Ascending to the Gods? You can download a PDF of the slides here. Thanks for your interest, please be in touch. And Big Thanks to everyone who attended!
The Golden Dawn Academy
Interested in learning the Golden Dawn system of magic? Do you want to practice theurgy with the Open Source Order but live too far away? Starting April 13, 2017, the OSOGD will be opening the doors of the Golden Dawn Academy, our new distance learning faculty using video conferencing to deliver lectures and practice coaching […]
The Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn
The Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn We are a community of magickal practitioners, mostly of Pagan background, who have gathered to work the Golden Dawn System.
When thinking about Theurgy and the Golden Dawn
For the past several years I have been working on a doctorate in history about the Golden Dawn and theurgy. This early, lighthearted essay shows some of the connections I found and have been writing about. For your enjoyment… Our criteria in place, we may now essay a developmental history of the systems of operative […]
From the Poimandres
as translated by John Everard, 1650 My Thoughts being once seriously busied about the things that are, and my Understanding lifted up, all my bodily Senses being exceedingly holden back, as it is with them that are very heavy of sleep, by reason either of fulness of meat, or of bodily labour. Me thought I […]
Epiphanies in Iamblichus
(from my doctoral thesis on the history of theurgy) When we successfully invoke, the Being who we call comes. Sometimes it is very internal, sometimes we go the distance and work for an very dual and/or external manifestation. The result, whether mental, ‘astral’, or (near-)physical, is traditionally called an epiphany, a ‘showing up’. We are […]
The Place of the Mage in Cosmos
Given that the main tap-root of the Golden Dawn is in Neoplatonic theurgy, we can start there to ask questions about the place and nature of the individual soul, and especially that of the mage, in the architecture of the Cosmos. A recent contemplation lead me to an interesting proposition… In Neoplatonic cosmology, which in […]
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Origins Matter
Where does the Golden Dawn come from? We know about the Cypher Manuscripts, and we know the Founders developed them, in several stages, into the rituals we know today. We also know there has to be more of a backstory. Analysis of the the Order’s material, namely the rites, practices, and teachings, when compared with […]
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