Sword of Wisdom: MacGregor Mathers and the Golden Dawn

Ithell Colquhoun

A major new book for all serious students of occult literature, with new insights into the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Miss Colquhoun has made a profound study of Golden Dawn theory and practice; her researches dispel many of the misconceptions which have accumulated regarding certain events and personalities. MacGregor Mathers and his wife emerge as the master-spirits of the fraternity.

An autobiography coupled with the only book-length biography of Golden Dawn co-founder S.L. MacGregor Mathers, this volume also covers such related personages as William B. Yeats, Algernon Blackwood, Aleister Crowley, Arthur Machen, and Arthur E. Waite.