The Order of Great Osiris The Saviour

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The Order of Great Osiris The Saviour

Florence Farr

So there I was in the Library and Museum of Freemasonry in London, checking out their extensive collection of original Golden Dawn material, when I came across something I hadn’t seen before, so I presume it had only been recently been catalogued. Namely: the rituals of “The Order of Great Osiris The Saviour.” This apparently was a post-Golden Dawn order devised by Florence Farr.

I have no evidence that the Order ever got beyond the planning stage: however Farr did manage to write out a full set of rituals for it. In a note appended to the first ritual, she wrote that she received them from “the Akashic Records” between 1899 and 1900.

The rituals themselves consist of a series of ceremonies intended to be performed at very specific times of the year: mainly when the Sun is conjunct certain of the fixed stars (mainly the Royal stars); but also there is at least one full moon ritual as well. Each ritual centres around the adoration of one particular Egyptian God: Isis, Osiris, Horus, Thoth, Hathor etc. There is a lot of use of mantra and indeed silent contemplation throughout the rituals, so it would appear that the intention was to lead the initiate into a state of mystical consciousness as he or she participated in the ceremony.

Farr’s rituals bear little resemblance to those of the Golden Dawn. There is no “Egyptian magic as seen through a Victorian prism” of the GD, instead the symbolism is practically all ancient Egyptian (though unlike any discovered by archaeological means). Curiously though, some of the descriptions of the Royal stars bear a passing resemblance to the 7=4 ceremony of the Stella Matutina, so I wonder if this was not Florence Farr’s attempt to channel higher grade rituals herself.

Anyway: I leave you with artwork drawn by Farr herself: