19-21 Cecil Court, London WC2N 4EZ, UK
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Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
Fri 03 Apr
|Watkins Books
Felix John Taylor Join author and scholar Felix John Taylor for a talk on his new book on the legendary Victorian occult society The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
Time & Location
03 Apr 2026, 17:00 – 18:00
Watkins Books, 19-21 Cecil Ct, London WC2N 4EZ, UK
About the event
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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. Occultism has long been associated with the visual and literary arts, the wild and the avant-garde, and nowhere was this more embodied than in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Founded in London in the 1880s by Freemasons, it was the world’s most famous secret society.
In this fresh, bracing narrative history, Felix John Taylor recounts its rise and fall through the men and women for whom the Order represented both an alternative to traditional Victorian religious values and a space for imaginative exploration. Devoted to the study of ceremonial magic, the Order attracted a long list of eminent writers, actors and visual artists to its ranks.…