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From within the ranks of the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia there were many learned occultists who would come to form the corner stone of the Golden Age of English Fringe Masonry. This Golden Age, from 1860-90, saw the beginning of not only the S.R.I.A., but the Hermetic Society, the Theosophical Society, and the Golden Dawn
Fredrick Holland, Darcy Kuntz, ed.
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Frederick Holland and S.L. Mathers met as neighbors while living in Bournemouth and developed a friendship. Both men joined the S.R.I.A. on 20 April 1882. Holland was extremely well versed in the Kabbalah, Ceremonial work, Alchemy and the Tarot. Holland encouraged Mathers in his studies of Alchemy, including the works of Thomas Vaughan, and the Kabbalah...
In July 1883 Holland had created an occult order, called the Society of Eight. He wrote John Yarker on 31 July 1883 that it was to be: "a Society of Work, with a sincere end, and that end the sincere study of God & Nature-the result of which is undoubtedly the Stone-& Universal Medicine." Kenneth Mackenzie wrote F.G. Irwin on 28 August 1883: "I am glad to welcome you as a Brother of the Society of Eight-this Society means work and not play. It is by no means poor Little's foolish Rosicrucian Society. We are practical and not visionary and we are not degree-mongers. That nonsense is played out." It is evident that the Society was practical and dealt with Alchemy, Hermeticism, Masonry, and the Tarot.
Most of the historical records from this Society did not survive. In the Yarker Library there is preserved a bound volume of Transactions of the Society dated 1895 which consists mostly of "The Researches of Brother Frederick Holland." These "Researches" is largely based upon the material in his two published books: The Temple Rebuilt (1886) and The Revelation of the Shechinah (1887). I tracked down the original copies of these from the Golden Dawn library while I was in London.
The list of members from the title page of the Transactions are given as Frederick Holland, K.R.H. Mackenzie, John Yarker, Francis George Irwin, Frederick Hockley, Benjamin Cox, W. Wynn Westcott-and MacGregor Mathers. The subsequent history of the Society is not known, but it is assumed that it faded away when its members began to pursuit other esoteric interests.
The Society of Eight was one source for the foundation of the Golden Dawn...
Publisher: Holmes Publications [in a scholarly and systematic exposition of topic, in an academic fashion, authoritative].
Special Interest: Magick, Golden Dawn, Secret Orders, Advanced Studies .
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