Source books · The Golden Dawn

The Cambridge Handbook of Western Mysticism and Esotericism

Egil Asprem, in the volume edited by Glenn Alexander Magee · 2016

How this book fits

Traditions
The Golden Dawn Thelema
Role in the tradition
Secondary source A study of the tradition from outside it: history, scholarship, anthropology or reference.
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In this study

Asprem's chapter 'The Golden Dawn and the O.T.O.' (pp. 272–283) is this study's scholarly anchor for both orders: what they were, when they ran, and what was new about treating an initiatory order as a vehicle for teaching magic.

A peer-reviewed account of the two orders that most of this section descends from.

Cited for 17 sourced claims here, among them correspondences of .