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[It should be noted that in the First American Edition page 207 is misprinted with the entire text missing the first three letters of each line. This error does not occur in this First Edition published in Great Britain. Also, the Frontispiece in the First American Edition is printed in black & white.
This work consists of Five Parts: PART I AUTOBIOGRAPHY is the life of the author with a detailed account of her experiences and encounters within the world of secret societies. PART II BIOGRAPHY Remains the longest single work specifically focused on life of Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers. PART III ORGANISM provides the names of lodges of the GTDT and its numerous offshoots (including O.T.O.) along with detailed membership lists including Magical Names and Mottoes and biographical data with special attention to Celtic affiliations of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Included are W. B. Yeats, Arthur Edward Waite, Aleister Crowley, Kenneth Grant, Dion Fortune, Charles Williams, Algernon Blackwood, Arthur Machen, Evelyn Underhill, Ellic Howe, Francis King, Kathlene Raine, Lewis Spence, Gerald Massey, Annie Besant, Gerald Yorke and hundreds of others. PART IV LEGACY Provides an overview of the divers esoterica including Magia, Enochiana, Alchemia, and Tantra manifested by the Golden Dawn and its offshoots. The author was a member of O.T.O. Nu Isis Lodge and a Surrealist painter, playwright and poet. She also published an occult novel, The Goose of Hermogenes. Her Collected Magical Writings edited by Steve Nichols was published in 2007.]