THE ATLAS OF THE ORDER THAT TOOK

The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

the Golden Dawn

nature

Founded by Mathers, Westcott and Woodman on the authority of the Cipher Manuscripts. Isis-Urania temple in London, then Osiris, Horus, Amen-Ra and Ahathoor. An Outer Order of study and an inner Second Order of practice.

Most of what the modern English-speaking world calls "Kabbalah" is actually theirs. Fifteen years of activity, a few hundred members, and a grip on the popular imagination that has not loosened in a century.

rhymes with

sephirahhod

whyA system-building society, and one whose gifts and failures are both Hod's: brilliant organisation, and a tendency to mistake the table for the territory.