Golden Dawn Griffin attacks the wrong people (again)

Imperator of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Outer Order of the Rosicrucian Order of the Alpha et Omega, David Griffin, this week wrote an exposé of a masonic plot to destroy his order.

Griffin claimed that Nick Farrell and Mike Crowson were members of the Societas Rosicruciana (SRIA), and for 20 years, that masonic organisation has been doing its level best to attack his beloved order. Griffin claimed here that the pair were secret agents acting on behalf of SRIA chief John Paternoster.

However, it appears that Griffin’s research only extended to reading a blog written by a Christian who felt that it was Satanic for John Paternoster to have written in an occult magazine. In other words, this same writer would have thought that Griffin himself was a Satanist.

Farrell posted yesterday about his dislike of masonic orders and said that he had never been a member of SRIA, which would have been a requisite for being Paternoster’s right-hand man.

Had Griffin researched British masonic politics, he would have also discovered that while Crowson had been a member of SRIA, he left six years ago after a somewhat spectacular and well-known row with John Paternoster. You usually do not obey orders on behalf of a person you do not like for an organisation you are not a part of.

Paternoster has other reasons for not liking Farrell because of his strong views about the use of practical magic.

At the 1997 Golden Dawn conference, Paternoster claimed that magic was “dangerous and warped the fabric of the universe”.

Griffin’s response to the chilling wind of fact being presented to him is that it must be lies because he said so. But he has not been able to offer any proof that Farrell or Crowson are actually members of SRIA.

Our source in SRIA tells us that this is because there is none. In fact, the implication was that SRIA was about as interested in having Farrell and Crowson as members as it was in inviting Griffin.

Griffin managed to get away with the claim because both Farrell and Crowson have chosen to ignore him and not stand up for themselves. It needs to be clarified why. Farrell and Crowson have yet to reply to Watcher of the Dawn; the only proof we can find that they know each other is that they are friends on Facebook.

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