A benefit for the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn Legal Fund
Chic and Sandra Tabatha Cicero are Senior Adepts in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. They share an enthusiasm for the esoteric arts. They live in Florida with thier cat, Lealah, where they work and practice Magic.
Since 1975, Lon Milo DuQuette has served as a national and international officer of Ordo Templi Orientis, one of the most influential and controversial magical societies of the 20th century. He is an acknowledged authority on the life and magick of the OTO's most celebrated member, Aleister Crowley. DuQuette is the author of 14 books translated into 9 languages, and travels extensively to speak on a broad range of esoteric topics including Qabalah, Tarot, and Freemasonry. He and Constance (his wife of 40 years) live in Costa Mesa, California
His two newest titles are:
The Key to Solomon's Key: Secrets of Magic and Masonry and
Accidental Christ.
John Michael Greer is the Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America and a widely respected writer and teacher. He has been a student of the occult traditions and nature spirituality for more than twenty-five years. He began following the Druid path in 1993 with initiation into the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids, where he has been honored with awards and elected offices. Greer is the author of numerous articles and books, including The Druidry Handbook (Weiser, 2006), and the co-author of Pagan Prayer Beads (Weiser 2007) and Learning Ritual Magic (Weiser 2004). Greer lives in Ashland, Oregon, with his wife where he can be found blogging at http://www.thearchdruidreport.com .
Author and Editor of over two dozens books on the Golden Dawn and its history. Along with his historical knowledge Darcy Kuntz has a practical understanding of Western Mystery initiatic systems which spans over twenty years. Currently involved with the Golden Dawn Trust in an effort to preserve the teachings of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
Jason Augustus Newcomb has been studying and working with the powers of the mind for nearly twenty years and is the author of the books "21st Century Mage" and "The New Hermetics". He is a lifelong student of the Western Mystery Tradition. He has studied consciousness and esoteric spirituality for most of his life. He has worked with yogis, magicians, psychologists, witches and medicine men. He is an initiate of the Western Mysteries, and has explored magic and mysticism in its varied forms around the world for the past eighteen years.
Aaron Leitch (Florida) has been a scholar and spiritual seeker for over a decade. His explorations have taken him into many fascinating areas of human spirituality, their history, and their modern practice. His writings (both in print and on the web) cover such varied fields as Middle Eastern Religion and Mythology, Shamanism, Neoplatonism, Hermeticism and Alchemy, Traditional Wicca and Neopaganism, The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Thelema, Angelology, Qabalah, Enochiana, Psychology and Consciousness Expansion, Cyberspace, and Modern Social Commentary.
Imperator General of the Esoteric Order of the Golden Dawn. Robert works in concert with all the temples and sanctuaries around the world, and is always open to building positive relationships with new temples and traditions. He is the author of the 12 cd module called Personal Magic Series, along with the 7 Pathways to Personal Power, The Power of Q, Unleashing the Adept, Health & Healing, Energy, Power & Confidence, The Eye of the Storm.
Author, lecturer, and magical practitioner specializing in Thelema and related magical paths. He is the author of a biography of Aleister Crowley titled Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley. He’s been a student of Thelema since 1977 e.v., a member of Ordo Templi Orientis since 1987, and a lecturer on magick since 1990. Within the O.T.O., he is past Master of Blue Equinox Oasis in Detroit, an ordained Priest of Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica, a Certified Initiator Trainer, and a Local Body Mentor; as a member of U.S. Grand Lodge's Education Committee, he is chair of its Qabalah subcommittee. He has been a lecturer at the Starwood Festival[1] for over ten years on magic and online magical networking and ritual.
Sam Webster, m. div., mage, trained at Meadville/Lombard Theological School at the University of Chicago and Starr King School for the Ministry at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. He is the Chief Adept of the Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn (www.OSOGD.org), as well as an initiate of Masonic, Wiccan, Buddhist and Hindu lines and serves the Pagan community principally as a priest of Hermes.
Mark Christie has been a student of the Western Mystery Tradition for over eighteen years, during which he entered into the realm of Golden Dawn Orders (serendipitously during his Saturn Return). Former Cancellarius of the Alpha et Omega, he was the first American in twenty-five years to be initiated as an Adeptus Minor at Ahathoor Temple in Paris. He is active in Freemasonry as a 32° Scottish Rite Mason, a Select Master in the York Rite and Junior Warden of his Lodge in Minnesota. A seasoned astronomer, astrologer and artificer, Mark continues his quest for the Great Work with his wife of thirteen years, Mary.
Jeffrey Lee Contreras
An initiate of the Golden Dawn system for 11 years now. During that time Jeffrey has been a member of several GD groups and is a graduate of the Outer Order of the "Esoteric Order of the Golden Dawn." He also served as an initiating officer in the Rosicrucian Order of the A+O. Currently Jeffrey presides over the GDtemple.org an organization that strives to promote unity amongst all the Golden Dawn groups worldwide.