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The Alpha et Omega was an occult order, initially named the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, co-founded in London, England by Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers in 1888.[1][2] The Alpha et Omega was one of four daughter organisations into which the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn fragmented, the others being the Stella Matutina; the Isis-Urania Temple led by A. E. Waite and others; and Aleister Crowley's A∴A∴. Following a rebellion of adepts in London and an ensuing public scandal which brought the name of the Golden Dawn into disrepute,[3] Mathers renamed the branch of the Golden Dawn remaining loyal to his leadership to "Alpha et Omega" sometime between 1903 and 1913.[2][4][a] "The title was usually abbreviated as A.O."[5] and according to some sources its full name was "Rosicrucian Order of Alpha et Omega".[6][7] All of the temples of the order appear to have gone out of existence by the Second World War.[8]
- ^ King 1971a, p. 43.
- ^ a b Cicero & Cicero 2002.
- ^ Greer 1985, pp. 160–63, 244, 263–264, 350.
- ^ King 1971a, pp. 110–111.
- ^ King 1971a, p. 111.
- ^ King 1971b, p. 195.
- ^ Colquhoun 1975, pp. 52.
- ^ Greer 2003, p. 19.
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