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Moina Mathers, née Mina Bergson [Vestiga Nulla Retrorsum], 1890s
An interesting lecture on the Order of the Golden Dawn is coming up August 25th at Observatory in Brooklyn:
Historians stress the first founders’ connection with freemasonry, giving the impression that it was a club of old Establishment men with gray suits and gray beards. Their rites and study course were, one imagines, equally boring and patriarchal. But in fact, the Golden Dawn core group were a bunch of young creatives – friends working in creative collaboration, inspired by the mysterious.
I’m not sure modern occult historians do stress that the GD were old & stuffy…perhaps Chaotes do? (Yet now in the 21st Century, many Chaos magickians seem old & stuffy; plus ça change and all that!) And one quibble: Mina Mathers – Moina, if you’re feeling assimilationist! – was not Swedish but Swiss, from Ashkenazi parents.
Treadwells has a decent rep, however, so I’ll definitely check this out!