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Grand Conservator of the Pagan Faith and Tradition
of the Sacred Forest of NemiTranslated and Introduced by Golden Dawn ImperatorDAVID GRIFFIN
PART A. INTRODUCTION (BY DAVID GRIFFIN)
It is my pleasure to introduce an article offering a revolutionary perspective, written by Arch Priest Dianus del Bosco Sacro, current Grand Conservator of the Pagan Faith and Tradition of the Sacred Forest of Nemi (Del Bosco Sacro di Nemi), on the subject of Pagan survival from antiquity in Italy.
Dianus' lengthy article will be presented here on the Golden Dawn blog as a series of shorter pieces, in part detailing how noble Hermetic alchemists from the Partenopean initiatic center secretly preserved essential elements of ancient Roman Paganism from destruction by the Inquisition during the dark age of Christianity. During the course of the exposition, we shall witness how Western spiritual sexuality comprises an omnipresent Ariadne's thread demonstrating Pagan continuity from the most ancient times until today.
Throughout history, we encounter the same, sublime sexual mysteries over and over, albeit clothed in ever changing symbols: from the mysteries of Dionysos, Diana, and Janus - to the Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii, which had such a profound impact on Gerald Gardner immediately prior to his formulation of Wicca - from the rich symbolism of Hermetic alchemy known as the "language of the birds" - to the hitherto unrecognized symbolism masking the same sexual mysteries in Charles Godfrey Leland's "Aradia, the Gospel of the Witches."
Dionysos and Arianne
According to the lore of the "Del Bosco Sacro" Pagan tradition of the Sacred Forest of Nemi, Western spiritual sexuality first arose with the ancient shamanic religion of the Great Mother Goddess in Continental Europe. Whereas the primordial sexual mysteries would be preserved as The Great Rite along Matriarchal lines in Europe, they also spread to Sumeria, Babylon, and Egypt, where over time they became the Royal Art of Alchemy.
Following the conquest of Egypt by Rome, the sexual mysteries of alchemy were carried back to Rome by Priests of Isis. Arriving in Naples, Cuma, and Pompeii along the Partenopean coast, this masculine Priesthood encountered the great Pagan Matriarchs. These Patriarchal, alchemical and Matriarchal, shamanic lineages quickly discovered their sexual mysteries to be so similar, that they could only have arisen from a common source.
Thus began the intimate collaboration of the Hermetic alchemists and the Pagan Matriarchs that would secretly endure so many Centuries - even until today. Thus it came to pass that, when persecuted by the Catholic Church and faced with extinction, the ancient Pagan Matriarchs found sanctuary, protection, and survival in the Parthenopean initiatic center of Hermetic alchemy.
It is in this spirit that the Rosicrucian Order of Alpha et Omega and our outer order, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, as inheritors of so many Hermetic and Rosicrucian magical and alchemical lineages, is pleased today to continue to offer protection to the Pagan tradition of the Sacred Forest of Nemi.
I dedicate this translation to Lady Diana of the Sacred Forest of Nemi, 38th Arch Priestess Del Bosco Sacro, and Lady of the Game of Benevento.
by guest blogger (Lady Diana del Bosco Sacro)
As Imperator of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, I pledge my sword to the protection of Lady Diana, as have all Imperators before me of the Parthenopean Hermetic and Rosicrucian traditions.
Let all who would harm the Mysteries fear the sword of +AmoR+.
Sub Umbra Tuarum Alarum,
David Griffin
Imperator Ordinis and Chief Adept
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
outer order of the Rosicrucian Order of Alpha et Omega(R)
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In the comments section of Morgan Drake Eckstein's article to which my last post replied, Morgan recently published the following sniping comment from Nick Farrell. It is noteworthy that, despite Morgan's call for more direct communications in the Golden Dawn community, he has subsequently failed to publish my direct rebuttal to Farrell's comment on the same venue.
This seriously calls into question the credibility and sincerity of Morgan's call for direct, fraternal communication in the Golden Dawn community. Granted, it has only one day since I attempted to post a rebuttal, but it so far appears that my praise for Morgan may have been a bit premature.
PLEASE NOTE: PUBLISHING PROPAGANDA STYLE "TALKING POINTS" FROM GOLDEN DAWN CAMP, WHILE DENYING DIRECT REBUTTAL FROM THE OTHER ON THE SAME VENUE, HAS BEEN A MAJOR FACTOR UNDERMINING LEGITIMATE DEBATE AND SINCERE FRATERNAL DIALOGUE IN THE GOLDEN DAWN COMMUNITY FOR NEARLY TWO DECADES NOW.
Contrary to recent allegations made by Morgan, this is not pretending to be some sort of Internet Police. This is just being fed up with nearly two decades of "talking point" internet soap box sniping undermining legitimate discussion and fraternal harmony in the Golden Dawn community.
Below follow both the comment from Farrell Morgan published and my missing rebuttal:"I dont think there is an abyss of thought within the European Golden Dawn and the rest of the world. I assume you mean Griffins lot? If you said that there was a growing gulf between Griffin's order and he rest of the universe I would agree, but centering it on the EU is a bit unfair."Here is my rebuttal:Care Frater Nick, Have you still not grown tired repeating the silly talking points over and over like a broken record like your worn out meme of "Griffin vs. the rest of the universe"?Has the time not long passed for such cheap rhetorical tactics better suited to the world of propaganda and merely derail real fraternal discourse and scholarly debate?
I for one certainly have better things to do than to go on refuting talking points you and Pat spout over and over "ad nauseum" for yet another decade!The reality, whether we like it or not, is that traditionalist Golden Dawn orders like the HOGD/AO and the August Order of the Mystic Rose (just to mention two visible examples) will likely never agree on everything with reconstructionist Golden Dawn orders like your MOAA and Pat Zaewlski's OGD.This, however, is no justification to continue the sort internet sniping contained in your above comment and that has plagued our commmunity for nearly two decades now. I invite you to abandon merely repeating propaganda "talking points" over and to instead engage in sincere fraternal dialogue and debate instead.The Golden Dawn community has suffered more than enough already due to cheap rhetorical tactics like these. Let us instead agree to disagree like grown men about the many things that we actually do disagree about, yet nonetheless show the world the Golden Dawn community has outgrown the silliness that has plagued our community for nearly two decades now. Enough is enough already.
Fraternally,David Griffin
The McGD(R) of Ronald McFarrell and other franchisees of the McGoldenDawn(R) "Cult of Reconstructionism" are only the latest McDonaldizers of Occulture, but the Golden Dawn is not just any Order! In fact this rot is now eating at what has long represented the public face of the Western Mystery TRADITION.
Even though the McGD propaganda offensive still spins itself into frenzies of purple prose pre-prepared by the McGD lobby for release just as the final plank in McFarrell's several volume political tract hit the streets, the Traditional Golden Dawn Defence Team has stood strong.
No amount of name-calling, mud-slinging, and rote denial of matters of fact has quenched the iron resolve of the Alpha Omega in drawing a line for traditional GD orders in the sand against ALL who deny our Way the right to exist unmolested, with Secrets intact, and our members respected in their Path of choice.
The agenda currently in use by the McDonaldizing franchisees is hallmarked by the blindness of Fundamentalism, which always requires that blinkers be worn to exclude any valid point of view coming from the marginalized Other.
What has given McGD added force in warping the debate is that post-modernist "culture" is itself fully in support of such agendas against traditional spirituality, and selectively redefines "that which is rational" to suit itself. This has become so all-pervasive in modern life as to represent an unconscious web of assumptions.
McGD(R) Secret Chief - Raphael McFallenAngel(R)
As a traditional Golden Dawn order, the Alpha Omega must be forever wary of this onslaught generated by popular culture's fear and denigration of tradition, which stands in stark contrast to the fast food mentality of "ME! MORE! NOW!" - as this is entirely underpinned by egotism, greed and impatience.
It becomes ever harder to successfully train aspirants who arrive at our doorsteps drenched in these poisons. When they discover that we are applying antidotes of selflessness, hard work and patience, the shock is often too much for those so used to instant gratification of their culturally manufactured "needs"! Nor do we pander to demands for adjustments to a more "politically correct" approach that would better suit the ego games of Fifth Columnists seeking to force the election of their preferred candidate in some variety of boardroom takeover fantasy.
The fast food spirituality of McDonaldized Occulture cannot digest us so it instead attacks us at every turn. The root of this is the infantile desire to kill their father and possess their mother, for the AO, as a traditional GD order, openly claims to be manifesting from the SOURCE, and thereby the Father of the GD Egregore, and to carry the maternal Isiac Mysteries.
In fact a juvenilization of the Golden Dawn is underway among post-modernist initiates, one that perfectly matches the regressive trends of the wider popular culture towards arrogant disregard for the traditions of elders, and failures to mature responsibly beyond the larval stage.
McGoldenDawn(R) GMO Bio-Science
This neoteny will drive the McGD Franchisees into a species of Genetically Modified Order, as the only response they have left in the face of their DENIAL of the validity of the Third Order!
McGD(R) FrankenFoods Borg of Directors
They think that they have published the entire GD GENOME now that McFarrell has declared himself Burger King, but they are imagining uses for this code that were never part of the original intention, and these are not natural to the system.
From their lust for Revelation via disembodied Secret Chiefs, they will breed strange hybrids and monsters to feed the power vacuum installed above the headless corpse of a system re-animated by Franken-Farrell's McGD - and some of these will inevitably turn and bite them.
It is truly no surprise to us that we are specifically NOT mentioned by name in McFarrell's Tract, even as he lists his Reconstructionist allies, teachers and McGD franchisees. This marginalization is fully intended. Traditional Golden Dawn Orders have no place in books publishing their secrets, vilifying their founders through pop-psychoanalysis, and setting forth the future plan of attack for the McGolden Dawn Franchisee.
Ronald McFarrell's "Rosy Cross" Inner Order
Those named will be high among the "peers" who will come to "review" every publication with regards to its post-modernist PURITY, and denigrate each traditional voice that dares to be heard over the cosy hubbub of self-congratulation, as it develops a New Orthodoxy.
As a traditional Golden Dawn order, we in the Alpha Omega are the fly in their ointment, and the memory of the Egrogore they think they can Genetically Modify to suit their Frankensteinian dreams. Ronald McFarrell's GMOrder Initiations may fix hunger pangs for a time, but the McGD Franchise knows that post-modern aspirants will keep demanding MORE...
Fast Food Spirituality does not satisfy for very long, and over indulgence in it can be damaging to psychic wellbeing.
The McGD Reconstructionists have attacked every traditional Golden Dawn order they could see for two decades now. Dr. Robert Word, Chief of the August Order of the Mystic Rose was forced into silence by legal harrassment. The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, our outer order was harrassed in court as well, trying to prevent us from even calling ourselves Golden Dawn.
McGD has used every dirty trick in the book including every fear mongering rumor to try to scare people away from traditional Golden Dawn orders. They have spied on us, sabotaged our temples, tried to poach our members, and everything else you can imagine.
But all of this has been to no avail because the Alpha Omega is still today the largest Golden Dawn order in the world. In the AO, we do not believe that resistance is futile. We will continue to resist the McDonaldization of the Golden Dawn and the AO will always remain a shining beacon of light for people not satisfied with post-modern fast food spirituality, but who are looking for the real deal.
BY GUEST BLOGGERVH FRATER A.A. (5=6)
ROSICRUCIAN ORDER OF AO
