OP,
If your still here,
I am in The Golden Dawn.
Some quick facts, your initial post, already an occultist and looking to join a group to move further. That was exactly my reasoning for joining and it has been way better than I expected, it's a FRATERNITY of open minded individuals, the curriculum, the friendships, the heavy duty rituals in temple and without...
It's been incredibly wonderful and my first day, first initiation is a day of highlight in my life and one no one ever forgets ;) you couldn't make a better choice IMO. Of course I'm biased but i feel with good reason, I know the other orders/groups too, BOTA, SRIA, OTO (very familiar with OTO and lots of friends there).
As for Enochian, Enochian is of course The Angelic language rediscoverd by John Dee but originally given to Enoch by the great Angel Ave. It is a central part of the Golden Dawn.
The link you posted first post, that's David Griffins side of the GD (I have experiences with them as well), mostly european, generally here in the States, Chic and Tabby Ciccero are our mentors for the most part and this is their website:
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link to www.hermeticgoldendawn.org]
You will find contact information there, be persistent, we don't recruit and you will be checked out in many ways and if deemed of good character and intent, you MAY be invited for initiation. I may be able to help you a bit, may I ask what city you are closest too?
Pax et LVX,
Frater
Edited for spelling and stuff
Wow, I'm so glad I posted this thread and then remembered to come back to it! Thanks for the help!
The city I'm in now is kind of irrelevant, because I won't be here for longer and my work is based in the Great Lakes region, Chicago and Michigan. I'm not American and I wasn't planning on staying in the US much longer. I thought it might be fun to learn occultism in Ireland or New Zealand. Some place green and rainy. I know there are Golden Dawn temples there, but I don't know exactly which faction they belong to.
When I was 13 years old, I discovered occultism and faced immense opposition from my strict religious mother and abusive father, to the point where I felt they would do anything to control my mind and I almost committed suicide because I thought it was the only way to escape. It wasn't a matter of mental illness or clinical depression--it was purely due to my circumstance and I only came close once. Then I decided never to let them win. I instead swore to spend my life fighting injustice. Dramatic, I know, but why I mention that is, I had a sustaining fantasy of going to some kind of magical academy on a green, rainy island-nation. Now I'm 18 at last and have left my family. I don't talk to my dad at all and never plan to see him again.
I went to college, because my mom was devastated in the end that she helped ruin my life and turn me into an apparently hard, untrusting, single-minded, hostile person, so she offered to pay for it. I can't stand it and I have so many advanced high school credits that I'll have an associate's degree by the end of the year, even though it's my first year and I graduated from high school early too, so I don't plan on staying for much more. I'm about to buy a small online company with the money I've saved, so I'll be able to go anywhere and not worry about a job...
I thought everything would change the moment I turned 18 and had intellectual freedom, but I'm not spiritually free and still suffer the effects of many traumas I thought I would simply forget. I feel completely apathetic and can't get off my computer. XD
I had all these goals, like being a famous political blogger, starting a corporation, and publishing books on occultism, but I now realize that I've only touched the tip of the occult iceburg compared to everyone else out here in the real free world, and I can't accomplish any of these goals without first developing my willpower.
