Travis Simpkins

Tuesday, April 5, 2022

William Wynn Wescott. Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Ceremonial Magick. by Travis Simpkins

William Wynn Westcott. Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Ceremonial Magick. by Travis Simpkins

Portrait Sketch of

Dr. William Wynn Westcott

(1848 - 1925)

Co-Founder of

The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

Past Master of

Quatuor Coronati Lodge No. 2076

Member and Past Master of

Parrett and Axe Lodge No. 814

Crewkerne, Somersetshire, England

Supreme Magus

Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia (SRIA)

Member

Lodge of Brotherly Love No. 329, Yeovil

Rite of Swedenborg

Member of the Theosophical Society

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Hermetic Qabalah - Tree of Life

Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. William Wynn Westcott, William Robert Woodman and S.L. MacGregor Mathers. by Travis Simpkins

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William Wynn Westcott. Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Ceremonial Magick. by Travis Simpkins

Monday, April 4, 2022

The Cloud Upon the Sanctuary. Karl von Eckartshausen. Bavarian Illuminati. Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

Karl von Eckartshausen was, at one time, a member of the Bavarian Illuminati. His book "The Cloud Upon the Sanctuary" was originally published in the 1790s, but it had a major boost in popularity about a hundred years later during the Occult Revival of the late 19th Century, when it served as a sort of primer for initiates of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and other esoteric groups.

Karl von Eckhartshausen was an 18th-century German mystic. The Cloud upon the Sanctuary is Christian mysticism veiled in hermetic code and often considered a classic among Rosicrucians and Theosophists. Eckhartshausen was briefly a member of Adam Weishaupt's Bavarian Illuminati but left for spiritual reasons. In this work, he cryptically mentions a "society of the Elect" that has existed from the very beginning of time as "the invisible celestial Church". He predicted that "it is the society whose members form a theocratic republic, which one day will be the Regent Mother of the whole World." This book would later become a strong influence on the 19th-century members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Arthur Edward Waite offers an informative, historical introduction.