ORDER OF THE GOLDEN DAWN

In examining Mathers’s use of Eloah ve-Daath, it is important first to distinguish the complete expression from the abbreviated form YHVH Daath. The Hebrew Eloah ve-Daath,Eloah ve-Daʿath, אלוה ודעת, may be rendered approximately as “God and Knowledge,” or “God and Daath.” Eloah is a singular form of “God,” while Daath means “knowledge.” The addition of ve- (“and”) a conjunction, is significant because the expression does not grammatically identify “YHVH” and “Daath” as though they formed a...

When examining the Golden Dawn/Alpha et Omega 6=5 rituals content along with those of the Stella Matutina 6=5, the missing ingredient is the Third Rosicrcuian manifesto as part of their content, when its content was so rich in symbolic structure. The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz, published in 1616, occupied an unusual position within the Rosicrucian literature available to nineteenth-century occultists. The Fama Fraternitatis of 1614 and the Confessio Fraternitatis of 1615...

The association of the four Kabbalistic worlds of Atziluth, Briah, Yetzirah and Assiah, with the four elements of Fire, Water, Air and Earth is now so familiar within Western esotericism that the two systems can easily appear to have originated together. In the Golden Dawn tradition, and in much of the occult literature influenced by it, the relationship is presented as an integrated cosmological structure in which the four worlds correspond to four elemental modes of existence. Yet when the...