Nick Farrell hits out at David Griffin’s “lies”

Golden Dawn historian Nick Farrell hit back at David Griffin’s claims that he was a spy on behalf of SRIA trying to bring down his business.

David Griffin loses another clay-slinging contest.

Griffin, runs his Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the outer order of the Rosicrucian Order of the Alpha et Omega, as a sole trader-style business. As you can read here, Griffin has been erroneously claiming that Nick Farrell is an agent of the Masonic SRIA organisation, which he claims is a Nazi bunch of Satanists with a born-again Christian agenda.

While Farrell has never defended himself against such attacks, we found evidence that he was not a member of SRIA at all and wondered, with the rest of us, why Griffin would produce such an obvious porkie pie.

This morning, in his blog, Farrell confirmed what we had written, saying that he has never been a member of SRIA and he can’t work out what Griffin is banging on about.

“How is it possible for me to be a spy for two orders that I am not a member of taking orders from [the head of SRIA John Paternoster] who I last saw at the GD conference in 1996,” he wrote.

Farrell also answered charges that he had been defaming Griffin’s order in his books King over the Water and Mathers Last Secret.  He said that his books were written about the historical AO order and not Griffin’s business.

“My books tell the history of the real AO, not the one you set up in the 1990s.  In your head, you might think they are the same thing, but they are not.  My histories stop in the 1940s before you were born, just like the real AO,” he told Griffin.

He warned Griffin that if he wanted acceptance by the wider Golden Dawn Community, he was going to “have to stop calling people names and making up fake conspiracies and false stories.  If you are going to be accepted as a chief then you are going to have to  do something basic like teaching people rather than running around like the alcoholic on the street who thinks they are being chased by aliens, “

He accused Griffin of vandalising references to his books on Wikipedia in a bid to suppress facts about the historical AO and keep the truth from his members.

Farrell also referred to an incident where Griffin ordered his followers to conduct a virtual book burning by flooding Amazon with one star reviews for his books.

Griffin has claimed that Farrell’s King over the Water was self-published because it was issued by Kerubim Press.  Farrell said he was involved in setting up Kerubim but it was run by Dean Wilson.

Wilson has also stated that the company is a sole proprietorship, founded, run and owned by him.

“Nick did the layout work and cover designs, freelance, for King Over the Water and Commentaries on the Golden Dawn Flying Rolls, and only those two titles. He had no other involvement with the company and is neither co-founder, co-owner, or co-partner,” Wilson said.

“He had no part in the editing, publishing, distribution, or marketing process of the two titles he was involved with. King Over the Water does not meet any definitions of self-publishing since it was authored by Nick but published by me,” he added.

It seems to outsiders that in a couple of posts, Farrell and Wilson have derailed a year's worth of barefaced lies by David Griffin and made most of the posts and all the comments redundant.