Golden Dawn, The.
A Monthly Magazine of Spiritual Philosophy / The Most Unusual Magazine. The Occult Sciences, Psychology, Health & Diet.
Other titles: The Golden Dawn Magazine
1929--1944?
Monthly, quarterly
North Ferriby, Yorkshire, then Brighton, then London, and then North Ferriby, England.
Editor: John Ruthven (?); SETI, the author of The Wayfarer; Anthony Greville-Gasgoigne, Ph.D., F.R.S.A., M.I.J.; "The Principal"; S. Conrad Churchill, associate editor; Ian Gordon, literary editor; A.P. Chetwode, business manager.
Publisher: Alphac Publishing Company; Brothers of the Path / "El Sendero".
Succeeds: Healing (1929); Freedom; Illuminiere
1/1, April 1929-1944 (?) (the issue for April 1930 is also called vol. 1, no. 1).
50 pp. (varies greatly), printed and later mimeographed and stapled.

This journal was the continuation of a journal called Healing published in London by John Ruthven. The initial editor (probably Ruthven) was succeeded in 1930 by "Seti," who is identified as the author of The Wayfarer (1928) and Seti's Letters: Being a reprint of a series of monthly letters originally written in answer to correspondence from readers of the Wayfarer (1929). Seti, as the journal related, had had a marvelous experience about 1927 when he encountered on the South Coast the mysterious Wayfarer, who was "undoubtedly none other than Jesus of Nazareth." The editor buttressed this account by affirming that he himself had since had many talks with the Wayfarer and was convinced that "He is the Master of Masters -- the most loving and beautiful character that ever walked this earth." The journal drew contributions from Marie Corelli, Henry Drummond, Evelyn Hope, John Ray, A. Streete, Frederick Shand, et al. This initial journal seems to have lasted until 1931, and a revived journal under the same name and from the same location in Yorkshire began to appear in 1938 as a quarterly with renewed numbering. While the original title of the journal was said to be the Golden Dawn referred to in The Apocalypse, the successor journal was consciously modeled on the Order of the Golden Dawn. This new journal was a totally different enterprise and was the work of the obscure Brotherhood of the Path ("T.B.O.T.B.") which published it. This proclaimed that it was an international occult brotherhood with a worldwide membership. It aims to bring to all peoples knowledge that will set them free, and to achieve for them, through its "Way of Living Health, Happiness and Success." The brotherhood mined Israel Regardie's Golden Dawn rituals and those of Aleister Crowley to create a three-year mail-order course in occultism that, by its own account, was very successful. The journal claimed to have the largest occult circulation in the world. Greville-Gascoigne, the head of the order, is unknown and the name may be a pseudonym of the equally unknown Tom Sumpton. The group also sold Chinese herbs and other health items. Contributions by Regardie and by the likes of the astrologer Vera Stanley Alder, Ian Gordon, Rathmell Wilson, "Rae," and Tomaso Cellini, with occasional offerings by the likes of René Guénon (of all people), Manly P. Hall, Israel Regardie, and Hereward Carrington. Advertised in Aries Quarterly, March 1938. Warburg, Yorke Collection; 3/4, December 1940, Skidmore, Lily Dale.

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