The orders named in the interview
Eleven orders and circles are named. For each: what the speaker says, and whether a public admission text exists.
A test is possible only if the order left a text saying what it required. The more secret the order, the less such a text exists: that is why the most closed ones on this list have no test.
| Order or circle | What the speaker says | Public admission text | Test |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (London, 1888) | He says he led a French branch, and that postulants’ birth charts were examined. | Yes: the Neophyte ceremony, printed in The Equinox in 1909. It says nothing of the birth chart. | Neophyte test · the chart rule, measured |
| Rosicrucian tradition (manifestos of 1614–1616) | Named as one of the traditions he studies. | Yes: the Fama Fraternitatis gives six rules. | Rosicrucian test |
| Freemasonry | Named in connection with the eye in the triangle and with Egyptian masonry. | Yes: Anderson’s Constitutions, 1723. | 1723 test |
| Martinism (Papus’s Martinist Order, 1891) | Named as one of the traditions he studies. | Rituals were printed in the early twentieth century; not re-read by us. | Not yet |
| Gold- und Rosenkreuz (Germany, eighteenth century) | Presented as the origin of Polish patrons of Eliphas Levi. | Eighteenth-century German statutes exist; not re-read by us. | Not yet |
| Lodge of the Amis réunis, “Rose-Croix of the Magi” (Paris, before 1789) | He says Eliphas Levi was its heir after the Revolution. | No admission text found. | No |
| Egyptian Masonry (Cagliostro) | Linked by him to an older Neapolitan order. | Yes: the reception of the Apprentice, translated in a study of 1919. | Cagliostro test |
| “Egyptian Grand Order” of Naples | Presented as older than the Rosicrucians, with Lebano as grand master; he says he was received into it. | A single article of its statutes is cited by the historians of Myriam, which was its outer circle. | Egyptian Order test |
| Brotherhood of Myriam (Kremmerz, 1896) | Kremmerz is named as “the great Italian mage”. | Yes, through its historians: the Pact of 1899 and the Rule of 1896 are quoted in a documented history of the Brotherhood. | Egyptian Order test |
| English Rosicrucians (Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia) | Named in connection with Hargrave Jennings and Kenneth Mackenzie. | Not re-read by us. | Not yet |
| Frères Aînés de la Rose-Croix (F.A.R+C) | He says he was initiated into it, and that it works at practical alchemy. | None. | No |
“Not re-read by us” means a text probably exists, but we do not build a test on a text we have not read. “None” means the order published nothing about its criteria: any list of conditions would be an invention.
This site is independent and affiliated with none of the orders named. What the speaker says about them is reported as his words, not as established fact.