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Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 12:24
PM
Subject: Re: Golden Dawn Questions
(What the hell, I'll give participation a shot...)
On
12/13/05, Al Billings <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
What
I am curious about from people here is: What aspects of the Golden
Dawn,
its organization, magical system of thought, members, etc. seem to
be
strike people as having really interesting unasked (and unanswered)
questions?
I have to start by echoing the lack-of-history issue for the
Golden Dawn, especially in how difficult it is to link the personal
biographical information of its members to specific magickal practices. Some
people came out of the Golden Dawn as very well-rounded people, and others
went down in a rather spectacular blaze. It would be interesting to know where
the turning points were for these people, and which aspects of the practice
contributed to their respective developments.
One could probably look
at the IOT now (provided one could get access) and find similar cases of
trainwrecks & success stories. However, to the best of my knowledge the
IOT doesn't share much of a communally understood symbolic system comparable
to the Golden Dawn's. One of the main things I'm interested in specifically is
what role, if any, certain formal devices in the GD's symbol system played
(and can play) a part in what these people did with their "sanity".
-
'Lephty
