Golden Dawn high priestess Moina Mathers, c. 1880s.

The Golden Dawn and the Rebirth of Western Magick

The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn proved indispensable — and burdensome — to modern occultism

Mitch Horowitz
13 min readJul 17, 2023

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The quest for a Western magickal tradition, or a remade variant of it, altered the face of occultism in the early 20th century.

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Mitch Horowitz

"Treats esoteric ideas & movements with an even-handed intellectual studiousness"-Washington Post | PEN Award-winning historian | Censored in China