Who are the Watchers of the Dawn?

We keep getting requests asking who we are and what our intentions are.

This blog started after a “tired and emotional” conversation after a particularly successful party in Oxford. Some of us had been on the British Occult scene for the last three decades and knew lots of stories about people getting shafted by their occult leaders.

Part of the reason they have been able to get away with it is that there is a conspiracy of silence which exists between some of these leaders and their victims. It is not considered “done” for such antics to be made public, but there was no good watchdog for the occult scene.   Politicians are forced by the press to keep their noses more or less clean, but there is no press for the magical setting.

If you look at online magazines, they all report teaching or advertising a group leader’s meetings or books. There is extraordinarily little wider questioning of their dodgier moves. As a result, they keep repeating the same actions and damaging the same types of people.

This goes on for years until they finally die, and people crawl out of the woodwork and say what a shithead that leader was. While we do not doubt that unpleasant leaders and brilliant occult ability often go hand in hand, this lack of information usually means that when you pop up and say, “Bill Gray was a racist”, people act all surprised. People need to be informed of the inconsistencies so that they are told.   Then, when a leader throws them out of their group because they are concerned that they might challenge their leadership, they can at least say, “Well, I expected this to happen eventually.”

The reason we are doing this anonymously is to protect our sources. If you know us, then an astute paranoid occult leader might know who our sources are. Also, it makes it difficult for them to track us down and sue us into silence.   We know of three groups which are fond of using lawyers to silence those who have a story to tell, even if those writs never actually eventuate.

One of us is a lawyer, so we check the content carefully before we publish to make sure we don’t break any UK libel laws.   So, if any leaders are thinking of suing, they had better be damn sure of themselves and have deep pockets.

In fact, we are sitting on several good stories about one Golden Dawn group with information provided by insiders, including a couple of chiefs from the same order. We can’t report it because we can’t prove it, even if an attack blog would run it and not care.

One of us is involved in an OTO group, but the rest are part of a loose affiliation that holds “rituals” at a particular Oxford pub. We don’t care about any group’s politics. We are only interested in a good story if people cock up.

Already, one group leader is trying to portray us as an “attack site against his order” and issues orders to his disciples warning against us. We find this funny as we would not be paying any attention to his group unless he was not giving us such good stories and his members had not been supplying us with good leads.

Since we started this site, there are some other things we need to cover. Firstly, some stories affect the magical community, such as the Cameron thing. We have also seen that there are some stories which need to be written about the antics of certain people within the occult community who really are taking the piss. We originally wanted to expose the lies of occult leaders, but it might be a news site for the general magical occult community.

We depend on people emailing us with stories. We can’t guarantee publishing them, but we will check them out.