ABSTRACT
The occult revival owes much of its direction to the important Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn which first gathered together the workings of a fully developed magical system. Most contemporary occult groups practising magic as a type of Western Yoga, acknowledge their debt to the Golden Dawn. The first Golden Dawn Temple, that of Isis-Urania, was opened in London in 1888, and by 1896 there were Temples of Osiris in Weston-Super-Mare, Horus in Bradford, Amen-Ra in Edinburgh and Ahathoor in Paris. With the death of Mathers in 1918, the original Golden Dawn fragmented completely, although Felkin’s group continued to exert an influence which is still felt in the form of the Fraternity of the Inner Light and its derivatives. Between 1937 and 1941 Israel Regardie published the full rituals of the Stella Matutina, as they derived from the Golden Dawn. R. G. Torrens’s more condensed The Secret Rituals of the Golden Dawn presents a slight variation on these.
