Home›Open Questions›Did the Aurum Solis exist before its officers began publishing in the 1970s, and were Charles Kingold and George Stanton real men?Open QuestionsDid the Aurum Solis exist before its officers began publishing in the 1970s, and were Charles Kingold and George Stanton real men?Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Did the Aurum Solis exist before its officers began publishing in the 1970s, and were Charles Kingold and George Stanton real men?." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://www.divinityatlas.com/open-questions-index/did-the-aurum-solis-exist-before-its-officers-began-publishing-in-the-1970s-and-were-charles-kingold-and-george-stanton-real-men.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Did the Aurum Solis exist before its officers began publishing in the 1970s, and were Charles Kingold and George Stanton real men?. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://www.divinityatlas.com/open-questions-index/did-the-aurum-solis-exist-before-its-officers-began-publishing-in-the-1970s-and-were-charles-kingold-and-george-stanton-real-menCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-did-the-aurum-solis-exist-before-its-off, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Did the Aurum Solis exist before its officers began publishing in the 1970s, and were Charles Kingold and George Stanton real men?}, year = {2026}, url = {https://www.divinityatlas.com/open-questions-index/did-the-aurum-solis-exist-before-its-officers-began-publishing-in-the-1970s-and-were-charles-kingold-and-george-stanton-real-men}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXOpen QuestionCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Open QuestionThe 1897 founding and both founders' names rest on the order's own account and on nothing else that has been produced. No lodge record, no correspondence and no third party notice of either name from the period has come to light, and no scholar has argued the point either way, so this is an absence rather than a disagreement.What would resolve this An archival search for the two names in English civil registration, probate and census returns for the period, together with a search of the surviving papers and membership rolls of the English occult lodges of the 1890s, and, if the order will open them, its own pre-1971 papers. Any one of the three would move the question.OpenArchival history; history of Western esotericismJ. Gordon Melton, Encyclopedia of American ReligionsCross-Tradition ConnectionsQuestion OnAurum Solis, Secret Societies Well-attested Source Encyclopedia of American ReligionsJ. Gordon Meltontier 2SourcesEncyclopedia of American Religionstier 2J. Gordon Melton, Gale, 2009View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year