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Hermetic Imagination: The Effect Of The Golden Dawn On Fantasy Literature, Charles A. Coulombe
Hermetic Imagination: The Effect Of The Golden Dawn On Fantasy Literature, Charles A. Coulombe
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was an English expression of the Nineteenth-Century occult revival in Europe. Dedicated to such practices as ceremonial magic and divination, it valued these more as gateways to true understanding of reality than for their intrinsic merit. The Golden Dawn’s essentially Neoplatonic world-view is reflected in the writings of such some-time members as W.B. Yeats, Arthur Machen and Charles Williams.