http://www.grimoiremagic.com/wordpress/?p=114 For students of Grimoire Magic as well as other types of magic Sat, 04 Sep 2010 15:57:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.grimoiremagic.com/wordpress/?p=114&cpage=1#comment-3 Maestro Nestor Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:22:24 +0000 http://www.grimoiremagic.com/wordpress/?p=114#comment-3 I am sorry that I have not seen your comment until now. You are right that a lot is missing and if I would have written this article today I would have added a lot of things. This article was actually written a couple of years ago and was just meant to get people thinking instead of just accepting things at face value. Thanks for some great pointers! I am sorry that I have not seen your comment until now. You are right that a lot is missing and if I would have written this article today I would have added a lot of things. This article was actually written a couple of years ago and was just meant to get people thinking instead of just accepting things at face value. Thanks for some great pointers!

]]> http://www.grimoiremagic.com/wordpress/?p=114&cpage=1#comment-2 David Griffin Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:39:08 +0000 http://www.grimoiremagic.com/wordpress/?p=114#comment-2 Care Maetro Nestor, Thank you for a fine article. You are quite correct that Kenneth MacKenzie is the source of the Golden Dawn's Cypher Manuscripts. There are a couple of important factual inaccuracies in this article, however. First of all, Kenneth MacKenzie was never the Supreme Magus of the SRIA. Wynn Wescott caused the rolls of the SIRA to be forged to make it look like MacKenzie was an SRIA founder, however. Wescott also invented the entire Anna Sprengel story to divert attention from MacKenzie as the source of the Cypher Manuscripts. All of this boils down to Wescott, as Supreme Magus of SRIA trying to appropriate MacKenzie's Rosicrucian lineage for the SRIA! MacKenzie had been initiated as a Rosicrucian by Hungarian Count Apponyi in ca. 1852 in Austria. If you want to look for the true sources of the Golden Dawn, you have to look beyond MacKenzie and in the direction of Apponyi rather than to Frances Barrett's book. Finally, you also overlook that S.L. MacGregor Mathers, despite the 1903 schism, continued the order in France under the name of the Rosicrucian Order of Alpha et Omega. Regards, David Griffin Care Maetro Nestor,
Thank you for a fine article. You are quite correct that Kenneth MacKenzie is the source of the Golden Dawn’s Cypher Manuscripts. There are a couple of important factual inaccuracies in this article, however. First of all, Kenneth MacKenzie was never the Supreme Magus of the SRIA. Wynn Wescott caused the rolls of the SIRA to be forged to make it look like MacKenzie was an SRIA founder, however.
Wescott also invented the entire Anna Sprengel story to divert attention from MacKenzie as the source of the Cypher Manuscripts. All of this boils down to Wescott, as Supreme Magus of SRIA trying to appropriate MacKenzie’s Rosicrucian lineage for the SRIA! MacKenzie had been initiated as a Rosicrucian by Hungarian Count Apponyi in ca. 1852 in Austria. If you want to look for the true sources of the Golden Dawn, you have to look beyond MacKenzie and in the direction of Apponyi rather than to Frances Barrett’s book.
Finally, you also overlook that S.L. MacGregor Mathers, despite the 1903 schism, continued the order in France under the name of the Rosicrucian Order of Alpha et Omega.
Regards,
David Griffin

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