The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

Felix John Taylor

• Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
• eBook ISBN:
  9780500779842
• Year: 2026

The first full-length narrative history of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the esoteric society at the centre of the 19th- and 20th-century rise of the occult.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• About the author
• Other titles of interest
• Contents
• Introduction: ‘A Wild Performance’
• 1 ‘Metaphors for Poetry’: W. B. Yeats
• 2 A Gift Given to the Wise: Florence Farr
• Plates Section One
• 3 The Twilight Star: A. E. Waite & Arthur Machen
• 4 Babe of the Abyss: Aleister Crowley
• 5 ‘The Spell of Sound’: W. B. Yeats, Florence Farr & Pamela Colman Smith
• 6 Metaphysical Thrillers: Charles Williams & Dion Fortune
• Plates Section Two
• ‘An Elaborate Appendix’
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Picture Credits
• Acknowledgments
• Index
• Copyright