Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, also known as Ordo Hermeticus Aurorae Aureae, was a secret society, organised in 1887 by William Robert Woodman, William Wynn Westcott, and Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, all Freemasons, with the object of teaching and studying the occult generally, to which end a system of grades (orders) and a curriculum of work, constituting magical initiation rituals, was instituted to educate and edify the membership.

Membership
Both confirmed and alleged.


 * Sara Allgood
 * Arnold Bennett
 * Charles Henry Allan Bennett
 * Edward W. Berridge
 * Algernon Blackwood
 * Anna de Brémont
 * Dario Carpaneda
 * Aleister Crowley
 * Arthur Conan Doyle
 * Florence Farr
 * Robert Felkin
 * Frederick Leigh Gardner
 * Maud Gonne
 * Annie Horniman
 * George Cecil Jones
 * Arthur Machen
 * Gustav Meyrink
 * E. Nesbit
 * Charles Rosher
 * William Sharp
 * Pamela Colman Smith
 * Bram Stoker
 * John Todhunter
 * Violet Tweedale
 * Evelyn Underhill
 * Arthur Edward Waite
 * Charles Williams
 * W. B. Yeats