Home›Sources›The Magicians of the Golden Dawn: A Documentary History of a Magical Order 1887-1923SourcesThe Magicians of the Golden Dawn: A Documentary History of a Magical Order 1887-1923Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "The Magicians of the Golden Dawn: A Documentary History of a Magical Order 1887-1923." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/the-magicians-of-the-golden-dawn-a-documentary-history-of-a-magical-order-1887-1923.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). The Magicians of the Golden Dawn: A Documentary History of a Magical Order 1887-1923. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/the-magicians-of-the-golden-dawn-a-documentary-history-of-a-magical-order-1887-1923Copy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-the-magicians-of-the-golden-dawn-a-docum, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {The Magicians of the Golden Dawn: A Documentary History of a Magical Order 1887-1923}, year = {2026}, url = {https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/the-magicians-of-the-golden-dawn-a-documentary-history-of-a-magical-order-1887-1923}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXEllic Howe's documentary scholarly history of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, published by Routledge and Kegan Paul, the study that established, through documentary evidence, that the order's founding Anna Sprengel correspondence was fabricated. Howe's rigorous documentary method and the academic publication place this at this atlas's top tier. It is the strongest available source for the order's actual founding history as opposed to its own founding legend. A claim about the order's ritual content itself, rather than its institutional history, is better drawn from a primary source such as the order's own papers, held separately in this atlas at the tier appropriate to a primary document.FactsClaims Backed By This Source (739 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsCitationAuthorWell-attestedEllic HowePublisherWell-attestedRoutledge and Kegan PaulPublication YearWell-attested1972URLWell-attestedhttps://www.abebooks.com/9780710073396/magicians-Golden-Dawn-documentary-history-0710073399/plpSource TypeWell-attestedacademic monographAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested1A documentary scholarly history of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn from an academic press, the study that established through original documentary evidence that the order's founding correspondence was fabricated, the standard source for the order's actual institutional history.NotesWell-attestedThe documentary study that established the fabricated character of the Anna Sprengel correspondence.Claims Backed By This Source (739 claims)This source backs 739 claims across the atlas. As facts: 530 well-attested, 3 popular myth - corrected. As cited relationships: 18 holds. Plus 188 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicEnochian Governors, 273 claims: 182 well-attested, 91 general references.Articles, 107 claims: 107 well-attested.Enochian Aethyrs, 90 claims: 60 well-attested, 30 general references.Enochian Calls, 76 claims: 57 well-attested, 19 general references.Initiatory Grades, 53 claims: 28 well-attested, 4 holds, 21 general references.Magical Weapons, 30 claims: 25 well-attested, 5 general references.Esoteric Texts, 29 claims: 20 well-attested, 1 popular myth - corrected, 4 holds, 4 general references.Archangels, 21 claims: 16 well-attested, 5 general references.Historical Figures, 17 claims: 13 well-attested, 1 holds, 3 general references.Secret Societies, 16 claims: 6 well-attested, 2 popular myth - corrected, 6 holds, 2 general references.Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.Disciplines, 4 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.Subcategories, 4 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 general references.Years, 4 claims: 2 holds, 2 general references.Rituals, 3 claims: 1 well-attested, 2 general references.Categories, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.Doctrines, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.Well-attested530ArchangelsGabrielMichaelRaphaelRaphaelUrielArticlesA Coroner's Two Lives, and the Day They TouchedA Teaching Paper Issued, Not PublishedA Translator with a Weakness for a TitleFounding the Golden DawnOrienting the SacredSixty Folios in a Cipher Anyone Could ReadThe Cipher Manuscripts and a Correspondent Nobody Can FindThe Company of ARNThe Company of ARNThe Company of ARNThe Company of ASPThe Company of ASPThe Company of ASPThe Company of BAGThe Company of BAGThe Company of BAGThe Company of DEOThe Company of DEOThe Company of DEOThe Company of DESThe Company of DESThe Company of DESThe Company of ICHThe Company of ICHThe Company of ICHThe Company of KHRThe Company of KHRThe Company of KHRThe Company of LEAThe Company of LEAThe Company of LEAThe Company of LILThe Company of LILThe Company of LINThe Company of LINThe Company of LINThe Company of LITThe Company of LITThe Company of LITThe Company of LOEThe Company of LOEThe Company of LOEThe Company of MAZThe Company of MAZThe Company of MAZShowing 1 to 50 of 282 entities carrying this claim. NextPopular myth - corrected3Esoteric TextsThe Cipher ManuscriptsSecret SocietiesHermetic Order of the Golden DawnHolds18DisciplinesCeremonial MagickEsoteric TextsLiber 777The Cipher ManuscriptsThe Golden DawnHistorical FiguresSamuel Liddell MacGregor MathersInitiatory GradesPhilosophus (Golden Dawn)Practicus (Golden Dawn)Theoricus (Golden Dawn)Zelator (Golden Dawn)Secret SocietiesHermetic Order of the Golden DawnSocietas Rosicruciana in AngliaYears19371940General References188ArchangelsGabrielMichaelRaphaelRaphaelUrielCategoriesDirectionsDisciplinesCeremonial MagickDoctrinesThe Secret ChiefsEnochian AethyrsARNASPBAGDEODESICHKHRLEALILLINLITLOEMAZNIAOXOPAZPOPRIITANTEXTORUTAUTIZAAZAXZENZIDZIMZIPZOMEnochian CallsThe Call of the Thirty AethyrsThe Eighteenth CallThe Eighth CallThe Eleventh CallThe Fifteenth CallThe Fifth CallThe First CallThe Fourteenth CallThe Fourth CallThe Ninth CallThe Second CallThe Seventeenth CallShowing 1 to 50 of 179 entities carrying this claim. 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