An Order Built on What It Calls the Ogdoadic Tradition

The Aurum Solis is a Western ceremonial-magical order whose name means the gold of the sun, and it is distinguished chiefly by the particular lineage of the tradition it claims to work.

The Ogdoadic current

Founded in England in 1897 within the wider occult revival of the period, the order teaches a system of ritual magic, meditation and self-transformation that it traces to what it calls the Ogdoadic tradition, a Hermetic current it identifies with the number eight and with a line of Western esoteric practice reaching back, on its own account, to late antiquity and the Renaissance. Its method is practical and ceremonial rather than devotional, aimed at the development of the individual.

Known through its books

The Aurum Solis became widely known in the later twentieth century through the extensive published writings issued under the names Melita Denning and Osborne Phillips, whose multi-volume system of magic carried the teaching of the order to a readership far larger than its membership. Like several orders of its type it has passed through reorganisations and changes of leadership, and its public profile rests more on its literature than on any visible institutional presence.