“We know that Satan’s emissaries are coming there to work their mischief We know that a totally new and spurious order, the Knights of the True Light, has been created and is divided into the following five grades: Novices of three, five and seven years, Levites and Priests. All are said to be conferred free of charge and performed with acts of the blackest diabolic magic.”
– Group of Rosicrucians and Freemasons in Germany headed by Woellner… sent this letter to Duke Ferdinand von Braunschweig, Grand Master of the Strict Observance, it speaks of the “danger that fearfully threatens the Convention and so many lodges in Germany”. Woellner along with Bischoffswerder, and Crown Prince Frederick William later became members of the Order.
Guess what.
We’re Back!!!!
If you are back indeed proof it. How do I get in ? What are your contact details and procedures?
If you you are back, I’d like to join because I love asiatic brethren been of Golden Dawn stock.
Hi Gerald,
I just sent you an email. My apologies for any delay but I have been extremely ill the last 2 months.
Fraternally,
Olen
Please see my 1997 book Dark Knights of the Solar Cross for the first explicit link up of the OTO Hermetic Brotherhood of Light and the Fratres Lucis. Bishop Greenfield speaks of it in Hermetic Brotherhood Revisited etc.
What really interests me…quite a part from any moral worth of the Orders involved…is the link up here on this site between the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor/Light and the Fratres Lucis/Asiatic Brethren.
Thank you Geoffrey. I’m having some modem/router issues right now or I would comment a bit more. I’ll catch up in a day or so, when I can get some consistent connectivity.
Howdy Geoffrey,
I do not believe there was necessarily a transmission from the Ritter des Licht/AB to the HB of L, but Max Theon did show a knowledge of RC grades, and the general mythos of the AB fall schema in Le Tradition Cosmique. The HB of L is a bit more Hassidic in nature, whereas the AB/Ritter des Licht is Sabbatean. The OTO uses one of the Rituals from Ritter des Licht which it borrowed from the ‘cheater’s edition’ of the Signet Star, published after the Order had morphed and then faded, outside of Polish Frankist Circles, with E.J. Hirschfeld’s maltreatment, and the beheading of Moshe Dobruska with the Dantonists. That is not to say that a number of groups were not heavily influenced by the AB. Waite’s assessment of the scarcity of access to the materials over 100 years ago, is pretty accurate, this is in his RC text. We approach the AB through a Sabbatean/Hassidic/Alchemical perspective, and use the original Rituals with some tweaks here and there to prevent profanation if the originals are translated outside of the Order, and to open it up beyond a fringe Masonic-appended Rite.. But we also have a great appreciation for the HB of L (under Davidson) and the subsequent Cosmic Tradition and Argaman Hassidic circle.
Bliss and Peace,
Asariah
Thank you for your erudite, accurate and succinct synopsis. Of course, Sabbateanism is a controversial subject !
I’m amazed, I have to admit. Rarely do I come across a blog that’s both equally educative and interesting, and let me tell you, you have hit the
nail on the head. The problem is something which not enough folks are speaking intelligently about.
Now i’m very happy that I stumbled across this in my hunt for something regarding this.
Hello,
I have a serious background in Freemasonry and Kabbalah. I’m also entitled to confer/share some initiatic lineages.
I have found a deep interest in your Respectable Order and would like to know how I could join. (I live in Belgium).
Fraternal Salutations.
“The Light of the Infinite Surrounds Us!”
Dear Geoffrey,
Thank you for the query. Someone from our organization will be in contact with you in the near future.
Warm Fraternal Regards,
~A
“In Bliss and Peace”
Thank you very much 🙂
Fraternal Salutations