One advances from degree to degree, from knowledge to knowledge, from experience to experience, under the guidance of those who have gone on before. There is a degree system in the Golden Dawn, as there is in Masonry and in many other secret societies. The 'Hermetic' aspect from Hermes/Thoth/Mercury (thrice great) and also pertaining to Alchemy in a symbolic sense.perhaps, the transmutation of the 'base metal' of normal consciousness into the 'gold' of Gnostic insight for the elite and hypnotic servitude for the masses. 1 888 was also the year that 'quasi-masonic' Hermtic Order of the Golden Dawn formed.March 1st 1 888! 6 months later the 'masonic soaked' ripper murders would ensue! (see Stephen Knight)
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