How is the Golden Dawn connected with Freemasonry?
Although the three founders of the Isis-Urania temple no. 3 of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in 1888, Dr. William Robert Woodman, William Wynn Westcott, and Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, were all three Freemasons, there exists no formal connection between the H.O.G.D. and Freemasonry, despite false but persistent rumors that the Golden Dawn was created by the Freemasons.
