The Art and Practice of Magick

[Matt1]

Yeah, reading through that forum thread it doesn't seem anyone else has any source info to suggest this. The person who posted it said they got the idea because S. M. Mathers and his wife were both vegetarian and they were some of those who solidified the existence of the GD. That being said, it is interesting to note that Golden Dawn Hermeticism drawns from Lurianic Kabbalah and Rosicrucian principles. (Rosicrucians have no vegetarian requirements in their tenets.)

Now, what it COULD be drawn from perhaps is maybe Taoist alchemy or some kind of eastern Yogic alchemy which have particular diets in them. However, to be honest, I have found that in most cases where you find vegetarianism in 'western' traditions they have been siphoned from eastern practices and yoga, although of course there are examples like Pythagoras.

I thought they used the Hermetic Qabalah from most of my research on them. The Lurianic Kabbalah is the glyph used mostly by Jewish Mystics?