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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
Most of you read my recent blog about how Golden Dawn leaders have recently been begun using politically motivated book reviews in the decades old Golden Dawn Hatfield and McCoy feud.THE GOLDEN DAWN'S HATFIELD CLANI pointed out in that blog how, for example, Morgan Drake Eckstein and his allies in what I lovingly refer to as the the "Golden Dawn Hatfield Clan" have recently also been spamming review sites like Associated Content so that their biased reviews will appear well on Google.
I also pointed out how any positive comments made by an HOGD/AO member about a book was sure to draw the fire of Morgan Drake Eckstein and his "Golden Dawn Hatfield clan" cronies.
Well, guess what!
The Golden Dawn's very own Jed Hatfield (Morgan Drake Eckstein) didn't disappoint. The Golden Dawn feud lives on!JED HATFIELDRemember that, according to present rules used by the Hatfield clan in the decades old, Golden Dawn feud, any book that any HOGD/AO member (McCoy clan) has anything good to say about, gets attacked by the Hatfields.
Well, nothing has changed. Here is a link the original positive review published by HOGD/AO (McCoy clan) member, Sincerus Renatus on Magic Squares and the Tree of Life, by Nineveh Shadrach.
Predictably, here is the link to the Golden Dawn Hatfield Clan's new attack on the same book published just this week by Morgan Drake Eckstein.
You may be thinking where is the attack?
The attack comes in the form of a straw-man position. It goes something like this: the book method is faulty because Tom Dick and Harry can't fit a magic square on paper that they can carry in their pockets. Obviously, for a square this size, you will need at least 2 centimeter per square cell. That is a total of about 200 centimeters or around 80 inches per side. Gotcha! It can't be done. Morgan knows that. I know that. Most likely the folks who originally devised this square knew that.
This is a straw man position to take, because no one said it had to be done on paper. It isn't even certain that when this square was created paper was common or even invented.
Why write a blog complaining about the obvious? Either Morgan is slow to get the obvious, which I believe can be dismissed for he is a smart 44 years old college Junior.
The only other possibility is that Morgan is trying to dissuade practitioners from getting this book using straw man argument and by appealing to one of the greatest demons that every magician successful magician needs to slay- laziness.
It is reassuring to see that some things will never change...Clearly, the Golden Dawn Hatfield and McCoy Feud is alive and well.
Sub Umbra Alarum Tuarum, Yeheshua
David Griffin (THE REAL MCCOY)
G.H. Frater Lux Ex SeptentrionisImperator Ordinis, Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawnouter order of the Rosicrucian Order of Alpha et Omega
"Ex Deo Nascimur.In Yeheshua Morimur.Per Sanctum Spiritum Reviviscimus"
The Following refutation is in response to Pat Zalewski's unsubstantiated accusations that I, David Griffin, somehow plagiarized his work in my Ritual Magic Manual. As will be shown below, such allegations clearly have no scholarly basis, but are rooted in mere political sniping from a competing Golden Dawn order.
I would like to begin by clarifying that Pat Zalewski is correct in his assertion that in the research involved in my integration of the Enochian materials of John Dee into the RR+AC systems of Planetary and Zodiacal magick, I relied mostly on primary reference materials, primarily the original manuscripts of John Dee obtained on microfilm from the British Museum, together with the papers of S.L. MacGregor Mathers. In the rare instances where any secondary sources were used they were, of course, properly footnoted.
Zalewski's cited example also clearly demonstrates how thoroughly referenced the Ritual Magic Manual actually is, in itself quite unusual for modern Golden Dawn books. In this sense, my quickly written above statement quoted by Pat Zalewski is indeed slightly inaccurate, which I readily admit and for which I readily apologize, of course, for any potential resulting misunderstanding.
Nonetheless, Pat Zalewski's above statement does nothing to support his repeated and unsupported claims that I have 'plagiarized' his work. On the contrary, the footnote he references from the RMM actually provides solid evidence of how groundless his accusations of plagiarism actually are! I am therefore grateful to Mr. Zalewski for pointing out this footnote and providing me with an excellent opportunity to further refute his baseless and unsupported allegations of 'plagiarism.'
The American Heritage Dictionary defines 'plagiarism' as "the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own." This is clearly not the case in this present instance, as I have obviously referenced Mr. Zalewski's work according to proper academic standards. Moreover, I mention Mr. Zalewski's work in order to demonstrate how I consider the position he sets forth in "Golden Dawn Enochian Magic" to be flawed. This is followed by my own position which is based on a careful examination of the original John Dee documents, in this case "Earthly Knowledge, Aid, and Victory," in Sloane MS. 3191. This is completely acceptable scholarship according to all academic standards and certainly does not constitute 'plagiarism' as Mr. Zalewski would like us to believe. On the contrary, this example goes far to prove that I indeed did 'not' plagiarize Mr. Zalewski's work, but rather took issue with it.
Zalewski's position that I consider to be flawed in this instance is properly referenced in the Ritual Magic Manual as: Pat Zalewski, Golden Dawn Enochian Magic, St. Paul: Llewellyn, 1990, pp. 31, 32. Mr. Zalewski's position is flawed because it is based merely upon an unreflective aping of the position set forth by S.L. Macgregor Mathers in a lecture to members of the Golden Dawn, entitled "On the Twelve Tribes of Israel and the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac," in which S. L. MacGregor Mathers attempts to explain the Golden Dawn correspondences according to the distribution of the twelve Tribes of Israel encamped in the desert as they appear in the Old Testament. Mathers attempts to elucidate these correspondences by weaving a tapestry of associations with the Tribes, derived primarily from Biblical sources. These include the children of Jacob, their various Mothers, their order of birth, and the blessings of Moses and Jacob upon the various Tribes. Interestingly, Albert Pike presents a nearly identical exposition of similar associations in Morals And Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. Mathers then comments upon the various armorial bearings ascribed to the twelve Tribes. This ascription exactly corresponds to that of the twelve ensigns attributed to the twelve Tribes in English Royal Arch Freemasonry. Thus it becomes apparent that the source from which the Golden Dawn borrowed this particular set of correspondences is English Royal Arch Freemasonry, and in his own work, Pat Zalewski merely followed these correspondences without even considering the difficulties underlying the arrangement MacGregor Mathers copied from Royal Arch Freemasonry.
The successful and correct integration of Enochian material from John Dee into Rosicrucian Zodiacal Magic has historically met with two difficulties. The first impediment arises because John Dee, in "Earthly Knowledge, Aid, and Victory," attributes the Twelve Tribes of Israel to the Signs of the Zodiac differently than does the R. R. et A. C. The Signs of the Zodiac thus correspond differently with the Enochian Zodiacal Kings in the Dee versus the R.R. et A.C. system. The second difficulty relates closely to the first and concerns the best method of attributing twelve Divine Names from the Elemental Tablets to the Zodiacal Signs.
In his work, Pat Zalewski does not even recognize these difficulties, but merely copies MacGregor Mathers in an unreflective manner without any consideration of underlying conflict with the original John Dee Enochian manuscripts. The above cited arrangement from MacGregor Mathers and aped by Zalewski, although seductive, is seriously flawed. The Elements of the Tablets from which the Divine Names originate do not correspond with the Elemental Triplicities of the Zodiacal Signs. When used in Ceremonial Magic, the failure of this arrangement becomes obvious. For example, it requires the Magician to invoke Sagittarius (a Fire Sign) using a Fire Invoking Pentagram while vibrating ARSL, a Divine Name from the Elemental Tablet of Water. Furthermore, the attribution of the Elements to the Quarters in this arrangement bears no resemblance to anything else in the R. R. et A. C. system!
What I point out in the Ritual Magic Manual is that John Dee clearly intended a different arrangement than the one that MacGregor Mathers chose, however, and that Dee's arrangement is implied in a diagram, entitled "Ordo Israelis Dispersi, hoc Estate 1585," illustrated on page 635 of the Ritual Magic Manual and available in my paper "The Book Of the Concourse of the Planetary and Zodiacal Forces" that you may download for free from our website at:
http://golden-dawn.com/goldendawn/UserFiles/en/file/pdf/concourse p z forces.pdf
The diagram that I provide on page 635 of the Ritual Magic Manual (and reproduced in the aforementioned free download) illustrates an alternative, superior means of integrating the John Dee Enochian and RR+AC systems of Zodiacal Magic. Although Dee does not include the Glyphs of the Zodiacal Signs, but rather the numbers one through twelve, his intention is nonetheless easy to deduce. When one assigns the Zodiacal Signs from Aries as one through Pisces as twelve, the resulting attribution of the twelve Tribes of Israel to the Zodiacal Signs exactly matches those given by Cornelius Agrippa in his book on Celestial Magic. Dee clearly intended to attribute the twelve Tribes of Israel as well as the Enochian Zodiacal Kings to the Signs of the Zodiac according to the correspondences used by Agrippa.
Dee's diagram, thus understood, aligns the Zodiacal Signs according to their Elemental Triplicities in each of the four Quarters. The Fire Signs thus find their place in the East, the Earth Signs in the South, the Air Signs in the West, and the Water Signs in the North. This arrangement exactly coincides with the Golden Dawn attribution of the Elements to the four Quarters according to their "Natural position in the Zodiac." Thus it provides an excellent vehicle for the complete integration of the John Dee Enochian and the R.R. et A.C. systems of Zodiacal Magic.
In conclusion, the example cited by Pat Zalewski in no way supports his baseless accusation that I have plagiarized Zalewski's work. On the contrary, it actually shows in the present instance that I have correctly referenced his work according to proper academic standards. It also shows that not only have I not copied Zalewski's work without crediting him, but that I have actually taken issue with it, because Zalewski's work is in this instance based on an unreflective copying of MacGregor Mathers, and fails to even consider how it conflicts with the arrangement that Dee intended.
My contribution to Golden Dawn scholarship in this particular instance, as enshrined in the Ritual Magic Manual is to recognize the conflict between the Dee and the MacGregor Mathers attributions and to find a satisfactory solution to this problem that integrates well with both systems.
No such arrangement is perfect, and deviating from the arrangement that MacGregor Mathers borrowed from Royal Arch Freemasonry indeed causes issues with other aspects of the R.R. et A.C. system. However, as far as Zodiacal magic is concerned, this heretofore unrecognized arrangement successfully finds a way to integrate the arrangement intended by Dee with an arrangement already present in the RR et AC, according to the 'natural position of the elements in the Zodiac.' This is not plagiarism. It is scholarship but rather an original contribution to the continuously evolving magical system of the Golden Dawn.
Sub Umbra Alarum Tuarum, Yeheshua
by David Griffin
G.H. Frater Lux Ex Septentrionis
Imperator Ordinis, Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
Chief Adept, R.R. et A.C.
Archon Basileus, Rosicrucian Order of Alpha et Omega
"Ex Deo Nascimur.
In Yeheshua Morimur.
Per Sanctum Spiritum Reviviscimus"
