Download or read book The Golden Dawn - A Key to Ritual Magic written by Gordon Strong and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-25 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Esoteric Order of The Golden Dawn was a school of magic, founded during the late nineteenth century, one vowing to reveal all manner of occult knowledge to its members. Celebrated among these were Florence Farr, W.B Yeats, Charles Williams, A.E. Waite and Pamela Colman-Smith. Its figurehead, the autocratic Samuel MacGregor Mathers, inaugurated ceremonies that melded Christian Mysticism, the Qabalah and Hermeticism. Such a potent brew would eventually ensure that the Golden Dawn would burst asunder in an esoteric apocalypse.