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ANONYMOUS BLOGGERS UNMASKED
Many of you who are following blog are already aware that there is an all-out witch hunt raging against the brothers and sisters of the Rosicrucian Order of Alpha Omega, which greatly intensified when we reacted strongly and passionately to Nick Farrell's latest published attack on the Alpha Omega (past and present) disguised as a scholarly work on history.
During the past months we have witnessed reconstructionist bloggers attack the integrity of our Order as well as mischaracterise our right to defend our order's reputation as "attacking" our attackers or as "flame war." During this internet Witch Hunt, the first round we witnessed a reconstructionist mob employ fear mongering tactics. We have witnessed them revising the actual facts of our history, and do everything possible to misrepresent our Secret Chiefs, our initiatory system and nearly every single aspect of our order.
Throughout this intense persecution, we have seen well known reconstructionist representatives behaving like Witch Hunt inquisitors, such as Deanna Bonds, Olen Rush, Morgan Drake Eckstein, and Joseph Max behaving more like a lynch mob posse than like Golden Dawn initiates.
Soon, the Witch Hunt passed the baton to Yahoo and its foremost reconstructionist forum, that of Pat Zalewski, attacking our Order's (and my personal) view on God-Forms and that small part of the Alpha Omega 6^0=5^0 ritual which recently was profaned by another reconstructionist author. In tandem with this new host of attacks on that recon-forum the Witch Hunt have re-mobilized their old tactics of using anonymous and libelous blogs, mocking our Order and its Chiefs and spreading vileful lies about us. One such anonymous blog was created just a couple of months ago with the clear intent of mocking our Order and its Chief, and our Manifesto, as well as interpolating libelous misrepresentations.
An equally mocking Facebook account was simultaneously created by the blog creator using the same mis-impersonation identity, with the expressed objective to promote the defamatory "anonymous" blog, being promoted by and thus indirectly leading to the professed recon-disciple of Mr. Zalewski, Morgan Drake Eckstein, who has become one of the most rabid characters in this witch hunt posse. This also is a smoking gun leading directly back to the other party in the trademark settlement agreement, who has been warned by the court numerous times in the past not to use such "back doors" to its agreement not to further libel our order.
A couple of weeks ago, yet another "anonymous" blog was create by someone calling himself "Eric V. Sisco", presenting himself as an "an Adeptus Exemptus in the SRICF". "S.R.I.C.F." is a abbreviation of "Soceitas Rosicruciana in Civitatibus Foederatis", the officially recognised American body of the British "Soceitas Rosicruciana in Anglia" (S.R.I.A.), both constituting a male only Trinitarian Christian and exoteric version or debasement of "Rosicrucianism". Two other organisations have unofficial ties to the S.R.I.A. and S.R.I.C.F., namely the "Soceitas Rosicruciana in America "(also abbreviated as S.R.I.A.) and the equally Trinitarian Christian "Order of the Rose Cross" (O.R+C). Although the latter two organisations allow women into their membership I still refer to all four organisations, which all stem from the British S.R.I.A., as "WASP supremacists" ("WASP" as in "White Anglo-Saxon Protestants"). That the WASP-label is quite apt to these pseudo-Rosicrucian bodies is easily discerned from an original manifesto with a highly anti-Semite content issued by the O.R+C:"We believe that the Anglo-Saxon and associated Indo-European cultures are the spiritual and literal descendants of these 'lost ten tribes of Israel,' representing God's chosen people as mentioned in the Old Testament."On The Golden Dawn Blog it has also been proven beyond any doubt that the exotericism of these WASP organisations have started to infest the esoteric freedom of the Golden Dawn community, placing itself as its "Third Order," i.e. effectively replacing the Supernals of the essentially Pagan Primordial Tradition with the temporal and exoteric Trinitarian Protestant tradition. Interestingly enough "Sisco", the author of the newly created anonymous blog attacking the Rosicrucian Order of Alpha et Omega, also has confessed to be a member of the Golden Dawn organisation which constitutes the other party of the Trademark Settlement Agreement. As it happens, the Chiefs of that Golden Dawn organisation are also senior Officers and co-founders of the O.R+C, one of them being the Supreme Maga of the S.R.I.America and profaner of the Alpha Omega 6^0=5^0 ritual and the other a senior member of the S.R.I.Anglia. Even more interestingly "Sisco" has advertised his attack blog on Pat Zalewski's forum and that of the other party of the Trademark Settlement Agreement. This ties yet another "anonymous" attack blog directly back to the other party of the trademark agreement, who are also founders and Grand Officers of the "Christians only" OR+C.
Thus this proves beyond any doubt that the forces behind the flame war, or rather witch hunting inquisition, against the Alpha Omega, which primarily is using anonymous blogs, can be traced back to the S.R.I.A., the OR+C, the SRICF, AS WELL AS DIRECTLY TO THE OTHER PARTY OF THE TRADEMARK SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT. Therefore the following words quoted from the latter organisation's web page are nothing less than completely hypocritical, when it describes itself as bieng: "deeply and thoroughly opposed to any and all Internet flame wars, slander, anonymous libels, harassment, disparagement, malicious gossip, and other unfortunate manifestations of wasted time and qlippothic energy".As this anonymous blog is also linked to the SRIA America through its Supreme Maga (co-founder and Grand Officer of the anti-Pagan and anti-Semitic "Order of the Rose and Cross") her words on the SRIA America blog ring equally filled with deceit and hypocricy, when she writes:"No flame-wars or disparaging of others will ever be tolerated or posted here."Now, if you have been following my own blog (Gyllene Gryningen) for the last years or so, you know my personal position on anonymous defamation blogs. If you remember all the way back to 2009 I had an encounter with an anonymous blog troll calling himself "Tommy" who had set up a libelous defamation blog against the Alpha Omega. If you still remember this encounter somewhat, I also tried to engage with him in a fraternal and scholarly manner, to no avail. He wasn't at all interested in any reasoned debate; he simply wanted me to further his propaganda and talking points. So I made everyone aware of my mistake and soon that blog was removed. My conclusion from that learning experience was:
DON'T FEED THE "ANONYMOUS" TROLLS!
Anonymous Blog Troll
This is also my recommendation to all serious initiates of the Golden Dawn community, reconstructionist and traditionalist alike. Don't give them any air to breath their venom unto the communty. It affects us all equally bad, regardless if we have a reconstructionist or traditionalist perspective on our beloved Golden Dawn tradition. It is the lowiest possible weapon to use in a political war; there is no excuse to resort to this kind of behaviour. And neither is it the mark of a Rosicrucian.
BY G.H. FRATER S.R.
New Age marketer, Robert Zink today wrote on his EOGD blog:"The mystical community was shocked when a recent attempt to prove that astral initiation is not valid failed on another blog...I think a more productive path of the HOGD/AO would simply be to offer astral initiation. They are already providing the grade materials in a vending machine style format. This is significantly different from The Esoteric Order of the Golden Dawn, which provides complete astral initiation to people who cannot travel to a local temple."Despite Bob Zink's misrepresentation, the Rosicrucian Order of Alpha et Omega, and our outer order the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, obviously have never been handing out grades like a vending machine. In fact, our curriculum is the most demanding of any Golden Dawn order, since, unlike other Golden Dawn orders, our members learn and practice the entire original R.R. et A. C. magick already our outer order, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. I personally believe that the HOGD/AO is the best and most thorough school of ritual magic that exists in the world today.
The HOGD/AO remains firmly committed to peace and harmony in the Golden Dawn community. Therefore, regardless how many old misrepresentations and attacks on our order Bob republishes, he is going to have wage his "one man flame war" all by himself. This does not mean, however, that our order will not at least refute Bob's attacks. As Bob continues to recycle old misrepresentations, we will simply recycle old refutations as well.
Let us, therefore, examine what Golden Dawn scholars have said about the New Age initiation Bob Zink invented to replace traditional Golden Dawn initiation, that Bob calls "astral" or "long distance" initiation. Scholars have repeatedly challenged Rob Zink to engage in meaningful debate and to back up his wild claims about New Age "astral" initiation. Instead, he merely repeats his talking points over and over, "slick ad" style, like a late night "Million Dollar Bob" infomercial.
In a nutshell, Bob Zink claims that, for a mere 200, he can wave his magic wand and, "Poof!," make you a "full Golden Dawn initiate" from the comfort of your living room arm chair.
In an old article, "Invoke Logic to Understand the Truth about Astral Initiation, Bob Zink again set forth his whole gamut of talking points and wierd claims about "astral" initiation. Let us review how Bob's claims have been refuted by respected scholars from across the entire spectrum the Golden Dawn community.
Bob Zink wrote:"There is no record of [MacGregor Mathers] traveling to Germany to receive initiation from the continental adepts! He was either self-initiated because there were no continental adepts of the Rose Cross, or He was Astral Initiated...... MacGregor Mathers and Monia Mathers... initiated ASTRAL INITIATION in the United States shortly before MacGregor death and Monia Mathers carried it out for many years."Robert Zink has been challenged, over and over, to provide even a single shred of historical evidence to support these weird assertions. Golden Dawn scholar, Samuel Scarborough, however, writes:"I think of myself as something of a scholar on the GD as well as a serious student of the GD system. The same can be said for Nick Farrell or Imhotep, or several others that say that these astral initiations are not verifiable, nor were they done in the original Golden Dawn or Alpha Omega or Stella Matutina after the 1903 Schism in the regular sense. There is no evidence for "astral" or long-distance initiation from those orginal bodies. I disagree with certain groups that claim that these astral (long-distance) initiations were commonplace within the original Golden Dawn. I have never seen any evidence to support such a claim. Nor can I think that Westcott, Woodman, and Mathers received some astral initiation as founders of the GD in the first place either."Noted magical author, Nick Farrell (Chief Adept of the Magical Order of Aurora Aurorae), writes:"If astral initiation was used within the Golden Dawn there would be some evidence of it... If an astral initiation was taking place then where and when and why did it not leave a trace of paperwork? There are no records of astral initiations being performed, nor any members who are identified as being part of the Golden Dawn who had their initiations astrally recorded. Nor is there any mention of the procedure being used in the various editions of by-laws, nor any diary notes from anyone saying that they had taken part in an astral initiation. While we have access to many different GD rituals, there are no recorded instructions for how to perform one."Next, Robert Zink writes:"If Long Distant Healing works then the same logic applies to long distant initiation. Our early brethren of the Rose and Cross-often did healing and there is nothing written that it was only in person. There astral abilities were often directed at the whole world, or areas of conflict or sickness. If Healing can be done long distant, then so can initiation...... it would be ridiculous to believe that the same Order that teaches magic that can affect time and space in astonishing ways, teaches that initiation must be done within a small confined space or a rented Masonic lodge? This is not very logical."Contrary to Mr. Zink's straw man argument, no one has ever disputed that Golden Dawn initiation has an astral component. What all true initiates understand and that Mr. Zink fails to grasp, however, is that the astral body is rooted in the physical body. In true Golden Dawn initiation, the astral body is affected by a transfer of energies from the physical body of the Hierophant to the physical body initiate physically present in the same room. To suggest that this can be accomplished "from the comfort of your arm chair, watching television on the other end of the world" is a scam pure and simple. Let us review what other Golden Dawn scholars have said about this matter.
On Nick Farell's blog, Polimetis wrote:"Nick. You know how EOGD always argues that and Initiation is not Theatre and is all about the astral (forgetting, as you say, the importance of basic psycological and emotional impact!)? Well, actually, ancient Drama copmes directly from the Dyonisian and Eleusinian Mysteries, and Tragic Festivals continued to a sacred ceremony and a sacred experience for the Athenians, which is, actually comparable to intiation ceremonies (especially masonic high degrees where only a few of the candidates participate, and most are just onlookers!). I bet no one in ancient Greece could say that if the director mentions the name of an Athenian citizen that was out of town, before the perfomance of a Tragedy, would 'astrally" experience the awe and pity that the tragedy inspired, and the psycologically healthy Catharthic effect of actually seeing the sacred perfomance!"Next, Robert Zink writes:"Not everyone is near a physical Temple nor can afford the cost of attending a physical Temple. Should these people be excluded from the Light of Initiation into the Sacred Miseries?"Regarding Robert Zink's claim that "Astral" Initiation helps those who would otherwise not be able to contact the spirit of the order, Nick Farrell responds:"So finally we come to (the) point... that (Astral initiation allegedly) provides a person with a connection to a working group that they would not otherwise had. This is clearly true, but in my opinion any link would appear to be administrative rather than spiritual. A real initiation takes place when the person is ready."Robert Zink continues:"The cost of 5 initiations before one can be invited into the Inner Order is outrageous for someone on a budget. The average round trip air fare is about 500.00 the cost of Hotels will bring this up to about 800.00 and then there may be the cost of a rental car, add another 200.00 Plus food. So each trip to a temple will cost about 1000.00 or more."This is grossly inflated and deliberately misleading. In the HOGD/AO, we allow initiates to complete their grade work one grade at a time, and if necessary for financial reasons, to make only one trip to a physical temple location to receive all of their grade initiations at once prior to admission into the Second Order. Robert Zink knows this.
Then why is Robert Zink is desperately trying to convince you that his New Age "Astral" initiation is as good as the real McCoy? Because he wants to line his pockets with your money!
Clearly, Bob Zink shares the belief that P.T. Barnum once proclaimed: "There's a sucker born every minute!"
Sure "Astral Initiation" works - And this is my new Star Fleet uniform!
