How is the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn connected with the New Age movement?
Israel Regardies publication of H.O.G.D. initiation rituals and skeletal aspects of the R.R. et A.C. magical system has in recent years been exploited by a number of newly created American groups calling themselves Golden Dawn, yet having no legitimate connection with the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn founded in Great Britain in 1888. Certain of these groups, as is the case with numerous modern Rosicrucian groups, have attempted to market New Age techniques like guided fantasy or as traditional Golden Dawn spiritual practices. In reality, New Age techniques have nothing to do with the traditional practices of the H.O.G.D., which are those of the Hermetic and Rosicrucian traditions, the Trivium Hermeticum of alchemy, theurgy (magic), and astrology.
