/lit/ - Literature

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Guénon does have books that are essential to the understanding of western hermetic tradition, especially the newer ones.

>Theosophy, the History of a Pseudo-Religion by René Guénon

Guénon here talks about the historical origins of Theosophy, the so-called "Mahatmas" of Blavatsky and how they tie to The Golden Dawn order where bigger names like Crowley had their beginning.

>The Spiritist Fallacy by René Guénon
Also essential reading when it comes to Theosophical society and how the "esoteric" movement in the west had beginning in "spiritist seances"

>Studies in Freemasonry and the Compagnonnage by René Guénon

Also recommended for those interested in masonry which offers a backbone for most western esoteric orders. All in all Guénon drops interesting notes here and there in books that tie closely to esoteric studies.

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>Golden Dawn was a con

Even Guénon did not agree it was a mere con or pseudo-initiative organization.

It ties to the origin of these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cipher_Manuscripts

Now these were attributed to one "Anna Sprengler"

Sprengel was supposedly part of the old German "Golden Rose-Cross" founded in 1714 by the Saxon Priest Samuel Richter (pseudonym Sincerus Renatus) and he held the title "Imperator" which the Golden Dawn later adopted. This title was inheritance of earlier Rosicrucian organizations.

This ´Golden Rose-Cross´ stopped existing somewhere in the 1700s. It was replcated in 1780 by the "Initiate Brothers of Asia" in Vienna and their superiors were called "Fathers and Brothers of the Seven Unknown Churches of Asia"

These should not be confused with some actual adepts living in Asia, but it is an direct reference to the Christian Seven Churches found in book of Revelation.

It ties to Golden Dawn, in a sense, that these organizations, just like Golden Dawn, made their members take an oath of allegiance to the "Imperator" (Term only found in Rosicrucian and Golden Dawn, considering the Cipher MSS was also attributed to a contact of Golden Rose-Cross)

The founder of the Golden Rose-Cross (Sincerus Renatus) that the "Masters" of the Rose-Cross left for "India" and none of them were left in Europe. 1714 statutes of the Golden Rose-Cross one can read "every Brother shall hange his first name and surname after he has been accepted, and shall do the same each time he changes countries"

Henri Nehaus also states that this departure of the "Masters" took place after the declaration of the Thirty Years War in Europe. Rose-Cross was also rumored to have links with Eastern, Islamic organizations.

Cont.