Theosophy Rosicrucianism Freemasonry
Freemasonry and Rosicrucianism both played a pivotal role in the formation of the nineteenth-century Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a key organization associated with the modern magical revival. The formation of the Grand Lodge of England in 1717 represented the beginning of “speculative” Freemasonry. This present-day fraternal form of Freemasonry does not require that its members be working stonemasons. Freemasonry as a tradition derived originally from the secret practices of highly skilled stonemasons and cathedral builders who worked on large-scale constructions in Italy, France, Spain, Germany, and England during the early Middle Ages. However, within the modern magical context it is Freemasonry’s system of ritual initiatory grades that has been most influential. The three founders of the Golden Dawn: Dr. Wynn Westcott, Samuel Mathers, and Dr. William Woodman, were all Freemasons, and the Golden Dawn itself adopted a Masonic grade structure based on the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. Rosicrucianism, meanwhile, provided the inner spiritual focus of the Golden Dawn, the latter’s inner Order was known as the Red Rose and Cross of Gold. The elusive Rosicrucian fraternity first announced their existence in Germany with the release of four pamphlets in 1614–1616. The last of these, an allegorical work titled Die Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosenkreutz (The Chemical Marriage of Christian Rosencreutz, or Rosycross), is especially important in the context of contemporary magical thought because of its alchemical themes and spiritual rebirth symbolism and its direct influence on the Inner Order ritual grades of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The German Rosicrucian fraternity proposed that the faults of the Christian Church could be reformed through the accumulated sacred knowledge held at that time by a number of learned magicians, Kabbalists, physicians, and philosophers. In some ways the Golden Dawn can be considered its modern British counterpart, the Golden Dawn had many Christian members and, like the seventeenth-century Rosicrucians, their interpretations tended toward esoteric gnosis: sacred “inner” knowledge far removed from doctrinal orthodoxy.
https://www.llewellyn.com/journal/article/496 Beginning Your Study of the Golden Dawn - Donald Michael Kraig
https://sacred-texts.com/eso/historic.htm Golden Dawn Historic Lecture - W. Wynn Westcott
https://www.resources.soundstrue.com/transcript/damien-echols-building-the-light-body/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_banishing_ritual_of_the_pentagram
https://www.wikihow.com/Perform-the-Lesser-Banishing-Ritual-of-the-Pentagram
https://threehundredandsixtysix.wordpress.com/2013/01/08/invoking-and-banishing-pentagrams/
https://hermeticgoldendawn.org/
http://goldendawnancientmysteryschool.com/
https://web.archive.org/web/20080220141210/http://www.golden-dawn.eu/hogd/index.html
http://mishkan-ha-echad.blogspot.com/ MISHKAN HA-ECHAD
http://osogd.org Open Source Order Of The Golden Dawn
https://www.kondor.de/enoch/etyr.html
https://hermetic.com/gdlibrary/index The Golden Dawn Library Project
https://www.nickfarrell.it/ Nick Farrell's Magical Blog: Experimental Pagan Magic in the Golden Dawn Tradition
https://hermetic.com/gdlibrary/the-nature-structure-and-role-of-the-soul/index The Nature, Structure, and Role of the Soul In the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn - Albert Billings
https://hermetic.com/yeats/is-the-order-of-rr-and-ac-to-remain-a-magical-order Is the R.R. & A.C. to remain a Magical Order? - William Butler Yeats
https://www.academia.edu/31616938/The_Art_of_True_Healing_by_Israel_Regardie_1
https://archive.org/details/artoftruehealing0000rega The Art of True Healing - Israel Regardie
https://sacred-texts.com/eso/enoch/index.htm Enochian Magic
https://hermetic.com/norton/papers/etemple Enochian Temples - Benjamin Rowe
https://www.yeatsvision.com/GD.html
https://www.yeatsvision.com/geometry.html
https://www.academia.edu/36353901/The_nature_structure_and_role_of_the_soul_in_the_Hermetic_Order_of_the_Golden_Dawn The nature, structure, and role of the soul in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn - Louis Albert Billings III
https://www.academia.edu/921740/Enochian_Angel_Magic_From_John_Dee_to_the_Hermetic_Order_of_the_Golden_Dawn Enochian Angel Magic: From John Dee to the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn - Anthony Holtberg
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26421705 Enchanting Modernism: Mary Butts, Decadence, and the Ethics of Occultism - Amy Clukey
Books
Susan Johnston Graf - Talking to the Gods: Occultism in the Work of W. B. Yeats, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, and Dion Fortune