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Post by sora000 on Feb 17, 2011 13:55:49 GMT -5
I'm thinking about joining the Hermetic Order Of The Golden Dawn.But I've some questions regarding the golden dawn.
1.Do have to be over 18 in order to join? 2.where are their offices,is their any golden dawn offices in china? 3.do they provide me with food/drinks,shelter, and a place for me to perform spiritual practices and experiences? 4.do the hermetic teachers teaches their students in the same way as in public school like in a class room full of students and single teachers? 5.do they teaches things that already been exposed to the public like the principles and the psychic practice in the IIH or do they have any secret knowledges that they only expose to more advance students? Those are the only questions I've for now.
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Post by ghostjghost on Feb 17, 2011 22:04:31 GMT -5
Most that I saw while researching them, indicated it would be one on one teaching.
It does appear to follow hermetic teachings closely though.
From what I've read there seems to be three groups one progresses through, an outer, an inner, and an administrative hierarchy, with ten tiers in each group. Some knowledge is retained only for those who have progressed further.
Unfortunately I don't know much as my research was somewhat hasty. All their sites that I visited today either had high monthly fees or a high entrance fee, and that generally raises flags for me.
I would be very careful to make sure that I wasn't joining some cult-branch that is merely using the name and assure myself that their practices were to my liking before putting any money into it.
If they are honest they should allow you to observe there activities for a day or two before requiring any decision on your part.
Unfortunately, I don't know if there are any offices in China, so it may be a moot point.
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Post by trismegistus on Mar 10, 2011 17:27:09 GMT -5
They only have 3 actual Temples, my buddy goes to the one in Chicago it's right down the street from him, and the actual Temples are the only places you can do physical initiations, but they do do astral initiations. I think my friend is in the Esoteric Order of GD though, but he has all of their teachings up to Adeptus Minor right off the bat, and most of it is unpublished. But no they don't have any ashrams where you could go live as a renunciate, and from what I've read we have evolved beyond that, and now the best way to go about spiritual development is to go live in the world, so that you can have realizations about how the world is, not to mention your development will be much more solid. Those who practice away in solitude, when they come to a city they have a lot of trouble achieving the same states. But one who practices living in the world or in a city, if he goes to somewhere isolated, he'll see he's actually progressed much further than he's realized.
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Post by ghostjghost on Mar 12, 2011 7:29:11 GMT -5
That makes sense, if you can learn basic control in the constant noise in the cities, it is much easier when that noise/pressure is removed.
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