Jorge Hevia III is dead

Jorge Hevia III, a 7=4 and the Praemonstrator Ordinis one of the three Chiefs in David Griffin’s Golden Dawn Order in happier daze. Sorry days.

The Golden Dawn Community is reeling after the news that the bloke whose job it was to provide the Rosicrucian Order of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in the Outer with its teaching, Jorge Hevia III died LAST YEAR.

We say reeling because the news is a complete surprise.  According to the Miami Herald Hevia died on December 10, 2013, and yet no one in Griffin’s order acknowledged the death of one of its most publicly identifiable leaders.  One would think that all those years of loyal service would amount to a few words on David Griffin’s blog, but apparently not. In fact, we are still not sure how he died.

To put this lack of information into perspective, Jorge Hevia III was extremely important to Griffin and his Order. Hevia was a 7=4 and the  Praemonstrator Ordinis, which means he was expected to provide teaching.  In other orders, it would be Hevia who provided the Rosicrucian Order of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in the Outer with the advanced Golden Dawn teaching. Most papers circulating amongst that Order with his name on them must be the finest example of a knowledgeable Golden Dawn adept. We have asked our sources in the order if any papers or teaching came from Hevia but they have not seen any. We guess they were too high-level to be seen by the riffraff.

It was not Hevia’s intense knowledge of magic and his skills as a teacher which made him famous. Hevia was David Griffin’s free lawyer who enabled the order to threaten multiple court cases against other members of the Golden Dawn community. A free lawyer gave Griffin meant that other members of the Golden Dawn would either must give in or face huge legal costs. For example, the court case for controlling the Golden Dawn trademark cost Chic Cicero more than $140,000 to fight and nearly bankrupted him.

Fortunately, Hevia was not actually a trademark lawyer and found himself out of his depth on numerous occasions. The court records we have seen are full of numerous comedy references. One of our favourites is when one of the Judges complained that Jorge was smoking so much when he prepared the court documents that they stank, and the staff would not handle them.

After the court ordered a trademark agreement between Griffin and Cicero, Hevia was ordered, we assume by Griffin, to get it overturned. He did this by sending to the court, on a regular basis, letters of complaint about how the agreement was being violated, which had to be answered by Cicero’s lawyer, who charged for his services.  – at $100 a pop. If you send enough of these a week, you can really drain your opponent’s bank account. Our source tells us that there were a lot of complaints with Jorge’s signature on them, which were ignored by the court but cost Chic money. 

Hevia’s last work was carried out by his office, which was given up in a trademark case against AMORC. This must have been signed off by his office after his death. In it, the Golden Dawn trademark wars, which were the hallmark of Hevia’s occult legacy, are finally over.  We are told that it means that Griffin’s website, where he has that stupid registered trademark symbol over everything, is illegal. We guess he has no trusted, free lawyer to tell him to take it down.

Still, it is a bit sad that the only announcement in the occult community where Hevia’s death is recorded is Watcher of the Dawn and even then, it is done so late it is hardly news anymore. Some would think he must have generated some bad karma to be punished in that way.