The Golden Dawn: The Unpublished Lectures of the Hermetic Order of the A.O. (Volume 1)

The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was founded in the late 1887. Its system founded upon variously obscured sources to include Karr, Sibley, and Hockley. While the system was very diverse in its sources of information and incorporation, a main focused in sewed. Upon the division of the order through strife and content, the Hermetic Order of Alpha et Omega was born. The division was clear and the future of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was divided. With a new focus in place, Macgregor Mathers continued his movement toward an obedient and well-focused fusion of Adepti. The AthorTemple continued to develop an invaluable system of Inner Order grades and subgrades. With this unique system in place, the temple presented itself superior in lecture than all other temples and orders. The various lectures presented in this first volume are of great importance. The texts themselves have not been published before and will shed great light on the thought, mind, and emotion driven into the Adepts of the Inner Order. The materials covered here range from Adeptus Minor to Adeptus Exemptus. This text will prove invaluable to the Initiate and Adept alike, as well as promote continual growth in the old system laid out long before us. The subsequent volumes to come will provide a full outline of the Adeptus Minor subgrades, as well as new materials for the more important grades of Adeptus Major and Exemptus. Let us not forget that we owe much gratitude to Mr. Jack Slater; V.H. Frater V.Q.P. of the Athor Temple, whose hand each of these lectures are presented to you in, with the exception of the Adeptus Major and Exemtpus papers, which are of Mathers hand. They are unaltered from his original manuscript, presented here, as a subsequent text to Dr. Israel Regardie's The Golden Dawn.