Notebooks of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

MS 1405

August 1893

A mystical organisation founded in 1888 by freemasons Dr William Wynn Westcott, Dr William Robert Woodman and Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers. The Golden Dawn admitted both men and women as members.

Two notebooks or "exercise books" from a set of books that would have been issued to members of the mystical organisation, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, for the purposes of learning about the Order. The large notebook is inscribed "Loan Copy" on the inside of the front cover and the title page states, "Horus Temple Copy of Lecture Six of the grade of Philosophus. 4=7. Grams and Gons.". It also states "Copied by permission of S.A., August 1893". The smaller notebook is thought to date from a similar time and the first page states, "Order of the G.D. in the Outer. Lecture on the knowledge necessary to be acquired before passing from 3=8 to 4=7."

2 items

Two soft bound notebooks

English

Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Alvin Langdon Coburn, William Butler Yeats