June
Kerubim Press publishes Commentaries on the Golden Dawn Flying Rolls by the Golden Dawn Community.
November
(?) Nick Farrell publishes Osiris Scroll, a book limited to fifty copies.
November 14, Lady Olivia Robertson (Co-Founder and High Priestess of the Fellowship of Isis--Huntington Castle, Clonegal, Wexford, Ireland) dies at age 96.
November 20, Psychic Sylvia Browne dies at the age of 77.
December
Jorge Hevia III (born 1955), VH Frater D.e.D.I., former member of EOGD (HOMSI), Praemonstrator and lawyer for the HOGD/AO, dies.
Yule--Tomas Stacewicz's Gryende Morgonrodnaden (Nascent Aurora)--formerly Gyllene Gryningen (Golden Dawn)--declares independence from the HOGD/AO.
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Saturday, September 28, 2013
Not connected to the Chrysi Augi
Let it be known that the Ba Iset Order of the Rosy Cross (Evolving Order of Eclectic Ways/Ba Iset Order of the Golden Dawn) is in no way connected to the organization of the Greek political party known as Chrysi Augi (which Greek name translated in English means "Golden Dawn").
Our Order has nothing in common with the Chrysi Augi which is a political organization with possible Neo-Nazi leanings.
The BIORC/EOEW/BIOGD is an organization devoted to the study of esoteric knowledge of the Western Mystery Tradition popularized by the lodge system started in 1888 by William Westcott and Samuel Mathers, an Order that is occasionally referred to by the name Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (not to be confused with the two modern groups that currently hold the trademark of that name--which the BIORC also has no organizational link to).
[This blog post was in response to a blog post written by Donald Michael Kraig.]
Our Order has nothing in common with the Chrysi Augi which is a political organization with possible Neo-Nazi leanings.
The BIORC/EOEW/BIOGD is an organization devoted to the study of esoteric knowledge of the Western Mystery Tradition popularized by the lodge system started in 1888 by William Westcott and Samuel Mathers, an Order that is occasionally referred to by the name Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (not to be confused with the two modern groups that currently hold the trademark of that name--which the BIORC also has no organizational link to).
[This blog post was in response to a blog post written by Donald Michael Kraig.]
Saturday, June 29, 2013
Golden Dawn History 1998
January 1998, after a couple of months of organizing in the last part of 1997, the Evolving Order of Eclectic Ways opens up its doors in Denver, Colorado. On October 16, 2000, several members of this group will form Bast Temple (Golden Dawn in the Outer, Ruby Rose and Golden Cross in the Inner) which would become the Mother Lodge of the Ba Iset Order of the Golden Dawn/Ba Iset Order of the Rosy Cross. On June 29, 2013, the Ba Iset Order of the Rosy Cross would start to use the name of the Evolving Order of Eclectic Ways once again, in order to help avoid being confused with the Greek Neo-Nazi party: The People's Association--Golden Dawn (Λαϊκός Σύνδεσμος – Χρυσή Αυγή).
Friday, October 5, 2012
A performance of the LBRP
Here is a performance of the Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram, banishing version (LBRP), that I did recently as a test video for a possible series of videos for the lodge, Order and myself. I still need to figure out a better place to do this type of stuff in, given the amount of background noise that you cn hear.
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Esoteric History 1875
Helena Blavatsky, along with W. Q. Judge and H. S. Olcott, form the Theosophical Society in New York.
H. P. Blavatsky writes many of her "most challenging articles" during this year for several Spiritualistic journals and New York newspapers.
Mary Baker Eddy publishes Science and Health.
Heinrich Schliemann publishes Troy and Its Remains.
May
May 31--Alphonse Louis Constant (Eliphas Levi) dies. Levi was 65.
June
H. P. Blavatsky moves away from Philadelphia. (Moves to New York City?)
Summer
H. P. Blavatsky starts writing Isis Unveiled.
"When I started to write that which developed later into Isis Unveiled, I had no more idea than the man in the moon what ould come of it. I had no plan; did not know whether it would be an essay, a pamphlet, a book, or an article. I knew that I had to write it, that was all."--H. P. Blavatsky
September 20th, H.P.B. mentions to N. A. Aksakov that she is working on a book called "Skeleton Key to Mysterious Gates." She says, "I'll show them up, your European and American men of science, Papists, Jesuits, and that race of half-learned, les chatres de la science, who destory everything without creating anything, and are incapable of creating."
Olcott wrote about Blavatsky's work, "If she had no plan, despite all her knowledge, does not that go to prove that the work was not of her own conception; that she was but the channel through which this tide fo fresh, vital essence was being poured into the stagnant poll of modern spritual thought?" [Obviously, this was a man who knew nothing about the working life of a writer.]
Olcott also wrote, "[Whence] did H. P. B. draw the materials which compose Isis, and which cannot be traced to accessible literary sources of quotation? From the Astral Light, and by her soul-senses, from her Teachers--the 'Brothers,' 'Adepts,' 'Sages,' 'Masters,' as they have been variously called."
[Was it a "tulku" mediator system that HPB used?]
October
October 12--Edward Alexander (Aliester) Crowley born at Leamington, Warwickshire (between eleven and midnight).
Mundane History
Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Religious orders are abolished in Prussia.
London's main sewerage system is completed.
H. P. Blavatsky writes many of her "most challenging articles" during this year for several Spiritualistic journals and New York newspapers.
Mary Baker Eddy publishes Science and Health.
Heinrich Schliemann publishes Troy and Its Remains.
May
May 31--Alphonse Louis Constant (Eliphas Levi) dies. Levi was 65.
June
H. P. Blavatsky moves away from Philadelphia. (Moves to New York City?)
Summer
H. P. Blavatsky starts writing Isis Unveiled.
"When I started to write that which developed later into Isis Unveiled, I had no more idea than the man in the moon what ould come of it. I had no plan; did not know whether it would be an essay, a pamphlet, a book, or an article. I knew that I had to write it, that was all."--H. P. Blavatsky
September 20th, H.P.B. mentions to N. A. Aksakov that she is working on a book called "Skeleton Key to Mysterious Gates." She says, "I'll show them up, your European and American men of science, Papists, Jesuits, and that race of half-learned, les chatres de la science, who destory everything without creating anything, and are incapable of creating."
Olcott wrote about Blavatsky's work, "If she had no plan, despite all her knowledge, does not that go to prove that the work was not of her own conception; that she was but the channel through which this tide fo fresh, vital essence was being poured into the stagnant poll of modern spritual thought?" [Obviously, this was a man who knew nothing about the working life of a writer.]
Olcott also wrote, "[Whence] did H. P. B. draw the materials which compose Isis, and which cannot be traced to accessible literary sources of quotation? From the Astral Light, and by her soul-senses, from her Teachers--the 'Brothers,' 'Adepts,' 'Sages,' 'Masters,' as they have been variously called."
[Was it a "tulku" mediator system that HPB used?]
October
October 12--Edward Alexander (Aliester) Crowley born at Leamington, Warwickshire (between eleven and midnight).
Mundane History
Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Religious orders are abolished in Prussia.
London's main sewerage system is completed.
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Free for today only
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Today (well technically until Friday September 14, 2012), you can get a free copy of my ebook Shakespeare's Monkey when you enter coupon code EX49A at the checkout. Why free today? Well, one of the stories contained in this volume was based on 9/11--apologizes to the dozen people that I blended together to create the characters (it was creative license)--and today is as good of a day to share that piece of fiction as any other.
Monday, August 20, 2012
Occult history 1874
1874
Autumn--F. G. Irwin visits Eliphas Levi in Paris.
October 14--Helena P. Blavatsky meets Colonel Henry S. Olcott for the first time at Chittenden, Vermont. They start to correspond with one another; later, they will join forces to further the goals of Theosophy.
November--H. P. Blavatsky moves to Philadelphia.
December--S. N., Thomas Vaughan (F. G. Irwin) writes The Star Rising in the Est, or a Brilliant Light Revealed unto all Men. According to Darcy Kuntz, "It has similar initiation ceremonies as those contained in the Golden Dawn Cipher Manuscript."
Important historical note: Colonel H. S. Olcott will lose his diaries for the years 1874 to 1877. This makes his accounts of the events of these years less than one hundred percent reliable as recounted in Old Diary Leaves. The missing years are those in which Blavatsky writes Isis Unveiled.
In mundane history:
First impressionist exhibition takes place in Paris. The term "impressionism" comes from the title, "Impression: Sunrise," a painting by Monet.
H. Solomon introduces pressure-cooking methods for the canning of food in the United States.
The first American zoo is established in Philadelphia.
Autumn--F. G. Irwin visits Eliphas Levi in Paris.
October 14--Helena P. Blavatsky meets Colonel Henry S. Olcott for the first time at Chittenden, Vermont. They start to correspond with one another; later, they will join forces to further the goals of Theosophy.
November--H. P. Blavatsky moves to Philadelphia.
December--S. N., Thomas Vaughan (F. G. Irwin) writes The Star Rising in the Est, or a Brilliant Light Revealed unto all Men. According to Darcy Kuntz, "It has similar initiation ceremonies as those contained in the Golden Dawn Cipher Manuscript."
Important historical note: Colonel H. S. Olcott will lose his diaries for the years 1874 to 1877. This makes his accounts of the events of these years less than one hundred percent reliable as recounted in Old Diary Leaves. The missing years are those in which Blavatsky writes Isis Unveiled.
In mundane history:
First impressionist exhibition takes place in Paris. The term "impressionism" comes from the title, "Impression: Sunrise," a painting by Monet.
H. Solomon introduces pressure-cooking methods for the canning of food in the United States.
The first American zoo is established in Philadelphia.
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