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The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Inc.

The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Inc.® (HOGD, Inc.) is a non-profit organization incorporated in the state of Florida, USA which holds and licences the U.S. trademark The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn® yet shares the mark world-wide by contractual agreement with the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn®, the outer order of the Rosicrucian Order of A+O®.

Teachings and Goals of the Order

According to the Order's website, The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Inc. promotes the teachings of the original Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a magical fraternity originally founded by Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers and William Wynn Westcott in London in 1888. The stated goal of the Order is "the continued preservation of that body of knowledge known as Hermeticism or the Western Esoteric Tradition."

History of the Order

In 1978, Chic Cicero was initiated into the Ordo Templi Orientis and began to operate an OTO camp in Columbus, Georgia. Mr. Cicero has subsequently claimed that he instead operated a temple of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn at that time, although there exists no verifiable evidence of this except Mr. Cicero’s unsubstantiated autobiographical claims (and hearsay based on the repetition of these claims by other authors). Contrary to popular misunderstanding, Chic Cicero was never initiated by Israel Regardie, but rather by HOGD, Inc. board member, Adam Forrest, and there exists no verifiable evidence that Chic Cicero ever even met Israel Regardie in person on more than two occasions.

It was Cris Monnastre, aka Patricia Behman, who was Israel Regardie’s primary student, having studied magic with him for hundreds of hours. Under Regardie’s tutelage, Behman founded the Osiris Khenti Amenti temple of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in Los Angeles in 1982, then travelled in with Regardie to Columbus, Georgia to be initiated into the Adeptus Minor grade in a Vault of the Adepti built by the Ciceros. This visit was the first time that the Chic Cicero met Israel Regardie. During the visit, Cris Monnastre and Adam Forrest were initiated by Regardie into the Adeptus Minor grade and Eva Cicero into the Neophyte grade.

Following this meeting, Cris Monnastre, Chic Cicero, and Adam Forrest began working together in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, later incorporated in 1988 as a non-profit organization in the State of Florida, with Chic Cicero listed as its registered agent. Following a schism in 1994, Ms. Monnastre was summarily replaced on the HOGD, Inc board of directors by Tabatha Cicero. Ms. Monnastre continued to operate her original Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, together with David Griffin, independently of the Ciceros.

References

1. USPTO Reel 2810, Frame 0405 records the 1996 right to usage contract
2. Agreement. Retrieved June 10, 2006.
3. ^ Website of The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn ®. Retrieved June 3, 2006.
4. Cicero, Chic and Tabatha (2004). The Middle Pillar: The balance between mind and magic: Llewellyn Publications, p. xxiv. ISBN 1-56718-140-6
5. Cicero, Chic and Tabatha (1991). The New Golden Dawn Ritual Tarot. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, p. xiii. ISBN 0-87542-139-3
6. Regardie, Israel, et. al., eds., The Golden Dawn: A Complete Course in Practical Ceremonial Magic (Llewellyn, 1989), p. xxii ISBN 0875426638
7. Cicero, Chic and Tabatha (2004). The Essential Golden Dawn: An Introduction to high magic: Llewellyn Publications, p.255. ISBN: 0-7387-0310-9.
8. Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations, Document Number N25541. Retrieved June 3, 2006.

External links

• Website of The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn ®

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• Esotericism
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• Secret societies