Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor
The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor ( English Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor ) was an initiating occult Order, which in 1884 made his first appearance in public, internal documents Peter Davidson According to but probably already in 1870 by Max Theon in London was founded. Theon was previously in Cairo in an apprenticeship with the Coptic magician Paulos Metamon , who also taught Helena Blavatsky and who was said to be Theon's "father". Thomas Burgoyne (aka Thomas Dalton ) joined them in 1883 to help run the order. Burgoyne later wrote a book, Light of Egypt , which contained the basic teachings of L.'s HB.
The teachings of the Order drew heavily on the sexual magic of Paschal Beverly Randolph , who also influenced the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO) under Aleister Crowley . It is unclear whether Randolph himself was a member of the HB of L.
There were many theosophists among the members of the order . These came out when Davidson claimed that the teachings of the Blavatsky came from an "extremely insignificant order belonging to Buddhism ". In addition, there was the Hodgson Report , an investigation carried out by Richard Hodgson in 1884/1885 by the Society for Psychical Research , also founded in London, of the paranormal phenomena surrounding Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, in which she was portrayed as a cheater. Conversely, the Theosophists' faction claimed that the conviction of the secretary of the order for fraud in 1886 spoke for his amorality, so that it came to a break, although the teachings of Theosophy and the teachings of Theon about a primordial religion are very similar.
The order's connections with the mysterious “Brotherhood of Luxor” about which Helena Blavatsky wrote are unclear.
The HB of L. is to be distinguished from the Hermetic Brotherhood of Light ("Hermetic Brotherhood of Light"), a forerunner of the Ordo Templi Orientis .
literature
- Joscelyn Godwin , Christian Chanel, John Patrick Deveney: The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor: Initiatic and Historical Documents of an Order of Practical Occultism. Samuel Weiser, 1995
- T. Allen Greenfield: The Story of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Light. Looking Glass, 1997.