Sept. 1, 2026

The Golden Dawn—Victorian Magic, Secret Chiefs and the Cipher Manuscripts

Show Notes

🔐 A mysterious cipher manuscript. An elusive German adept. Victorian poets and occultists who insisted their rituals worked.

Episode 369 enters the candlelit temples of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Matt Wilson, Juniper Ravenwood and Chris Beach investigate the Cipher Manuscripts, Anna Sprengel, W.B. Yeats, Aleister Crowley, the Secret Chiefs and the visions reported by the order’s initiates.

Was the Golden Dawn preserving authentic magical knowledge? Were its members contacting independent spiritual intelligences—or entering unexplored regions of the human mind? And if its founding story was fabricated, why did its rituals leave such an enormous mark on modern occultism?

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🕒 Runtime: 32m 18s | 📅 Air Date: September 1, 2026