Long-time champion of the Golden Dawn, Nick Farrell has finally admitted that the system is broken and can’t be fixed. In a surprise announcement, Farrell announced that his Magical Order of the Aurora Aurea can no longer be considered a traditional Golden Dawn group, although it will continue to use rituals and teachings. In a Facebook interview with Watchers of the Dawn, Farrell said that the Golden Dawn egregore was blighted with all sorts of “astral parasites” and had been doing its best to kill itself. “If you are in a group which claims that it is Golden Dawn, you open yourself to all the problems suffered by the original order,” Farrell said. He thinks that the original Golden Dawn egregore was a quasi-masonic order that admitted women and it had problems adapting to the magical techniques which were bought in by Mathers. “Having your order head being an ego-crazed loon also harms the egregore, as does having an order that rises against its leadership or encourages political kni