Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn

Magical organization

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Hermetic Order of
the Golden Dawn

Leading figures

* Allan Bennett
* Florence Farr
* Samuel MacGregor-Mathers
* Henry B. Pullen Burry
* A. E. Waite
* William Wynn Westcott
* William Robert Woodman

Teachings

* Astrology
* Body of light
* Esoteric Christianity
* Ceremonial magic
* incl. Enochian magic
* Clairvoyance
* Egyptian mythology
* Geomancy
* Hermetic alchemy
* Hermetic Qabalah
* Neoplatonism
* Rosicrucianism
* Tarot
* Theurgy

Texts

* Cipher Manuscripts

Organizations

* Alpha et Omega
* Isis-Urania Temple
* The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Inc.
* Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn

Related topics

* Enochian chess
* Great Work
* Holy Guardian Angel
* Initiation
* Magic circle
* Opening by Watchtower
* Pentagram ritual
* Secret Chiefs
* Table of magical correspondences
* Tattva vision
* Thelema

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The Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn (OSOGD) was an esoteric community of magical practitioners, many of whom came from pagan backgrounds. It was an initiatory teaching Order that drew upon the knowledge, experience, practices and spirit of the system of magical training and attainment developed by the original Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The OSOGD ceased operating in September 2019.[1]

## History

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The OSOGD was founded by Sam Webster in 2002 and based on the principles of the open-source software movement.[2] The organization grew out of a series of workshops on ceremonial magic held by Webster in 2001.[3]

According to Sam Webster,

> The Open Source Order was founded on the principle that true spirituality is omnipresent and access to it cannot be owned or controlled by any group or individual. Sufficiently skilled practitioners can and do modify the practices to serve specific purposes or to take advantage of the century-plus development in the craft to improve their effect.[4]

According to The Manifesto of the Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn,[5] the Order had undertaken to revise the teachings of the original Victorian era Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn system to work more effectively in the 21st century. This redaction of the original rituals has taken on the aspect of a number of principles, listed in the Manifesto as Open Source Magick, New Aeon, Freedom of Information, Thelema, Duty, Universalism, and Form and Function.[5]

In temple work, the OSOGD used Egyptian, Enochian and Thelemic godforms in preference to the Judeo-Christian archangels typical of the original Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. According to the Manifesto, OSOGD teaches "a progressively tiered system of spiritual development designed to invoke the Higher or Divine Genius latent in every human being."[5]

## Membership

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To actually join the Order, a person must have had regular access to its Lodge, which was located in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Order did not conduct distance initiations, and required that all initiates attend initiation rituals in person.[5]

## Influences

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The Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn drew heavily from Eastern sources, Thelema, Paganism, and the works of Aleister Crowley.[5]

## See also

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* Open-source religion

## References

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### Citations

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1. ^ OSOGD (2018).
2. ^ Wicker (2005), p. 206.
3. ^ Keane (2009).
4. ^ Gasperson (2006).
5. ^ a b c d e OSOGD (2002).

### Works cited

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* Gasperson, Tina (May 17, 2006). "New-time religion". NewsForge: The Online Newspaper for Linux and Open Source. Retrieved June 1, 2006.`{{cite news}}`: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
* Keane, Sam (May–June 2009). "Open to Revisions". Search Magazine. Vol. 6, no. 19\. Archived from the original on 2009-07-14. Retrieved July 27, 2009.
* OSOGD (2002). "The Manifesto of the Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn". Archived from the original on 2006-05-17. Retrieved June 1, 2006.
* OSOGD (March 20, 2018). "Sunset of the Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn". Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn. Retrieved April 21, 2020.
* Wicker, Christine (2005). Not In Kansas Anymore: A Curious Tale of How Magic is Transforming America. Harper San Francisco. ISBN 0-06-072678-4.

## Further reading

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* Crow, John (June 24, 2006). Interview with Sam Webster of the Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn. Thelema Coast to Coast (Podcast #28).
* Krengel, Eric (January 16, 2007). "Open Source Religion Explored Again—Beyond the Western Traditions".

## External links

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* Official website

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Thelema

Organizations|

* A∴A∴
* Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica
* Fraternitas Saturni
* O∴A∴A∴
* Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn
* Ordo Templi Orientis
* Society Ordo Templi Orientis
* Thelemic Order of the Golden Dawn
* Typhonian Order

Personalities|

* List of Thelemites
* Ankh-af-na-khonsu
* Aleister Crowley
* Kenneth Anger
* Allan Bennett
* William Breeze
* Mary Butts
* Marjorie Cameron
* Lon Milo DuQuette
* Jeanne Robert Foster
* J. F. C. Fuller
* Karl Germer
* Kenneth Grant
* Lady Frieda Harris
* Leah Hirsig
* Christopher Hyatt
* Charles Stansfeld Jones
* George Cecil Jones
* Richard Kaczynski
* Rose Edith Kelly
* James Lees
* Grady Louis McMurtry
* Mogg Morgan
* Marcelo Ramos Motta
* Nema Andahadna
* Victor Neuburg
* Sara Northrup
* Jack Parsons
* Helen Parsons Smith
* Theodor Reuss
* C. F. Russell
* Phyllis Seckler
* Wilfred Talbot Smith
* Leila Waddell
* James Wasserman
* Sam Webster
* Jane Wolfe

Thelemic texts|

* Aleister Crowley bibliography
* The Book of Lies
* The Book of the Law (Liber AL vel Legis)
* The Book of Thoth
* Clouds without Water
* Collected Works
* Confessions
* The Diary of a Drug Fiend
* Eight Lectures on Yoga
* The Equinox
* The Blue Equinox
* The Equinox of the Gods
* The Holy Books of Thelema
* Konx Om Pax
* The Law is for All
* Liber 777
* Liber Aleph
* Liber OZ
* Liber Resh
* Liber Trigrammaton
* Little Essays Toward Truth
* Magick (Book 4)
* Magick Without Tears
* Moonchild
* One Star in Sight
* The Stratagem and other Stories
* Thoth Tarot
* The Vision and the Voice
* White Stains

Concepts and ideas|

* 93
* Abyss
* Aeon
* Agape
* Astral projection
* Body of light
* English Qaballa
* Great Work
* Hermetic Qabalah
* Holy Guardian Angel
* Magical formula
* Night of Pan
* Stele of Revealing
* Stellar wisdom
* True Will

Magick|

* Abrahadabra
* Ceremonial magic
* Enochian magic
* Eroto-comatose lucidity
* Goetia
* Obeah and wanga
* Sex magic

Ceremony and ritual|

* Liber Resh
* Pentagram Ritual
* Bornless Ritual
* Gnostic Mass
* Rites of Eleusis

Godforms|

* Nuit
* Hadit
* Heru-ra-ha
* Aiwass
* Therion
* Babalon
* Chaos
* Ma'at
* Harpocrates

Symbolism|

* Number of the beast
* Pentagram
* Rose Cross
* Tree of Life
* Unicursal hexagram

Related topics|

* Abbey of Thelema
* Abramelin oil
* Agape Lodge
* Boleskine House
* Book of Abramelin
* Cake of Light
* Choronzon
* Dianism
* Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
* IPSOS
* Magical alphabet
* Magical organization
* Solar deity
* The Beast
* Whore of Babylon

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