Order of the Golden Dawn

[Sabou]

No, I don't believe there is any "official" lineage although there are plenty of claims. Although Regardie wasn't a member of the original Golden Dawn the Stella Matutina is consider a "successor" organization and so holding the inheritance of the original Golden Dawn. When the group disbanded he received all of the materials and information and hence the book, The Golden Dawn, was born. Many modern groups only go up to Adeptus Minor because that's only as far as Regardie got and there is some debate surrounding the higher grades.

I was just on "http://www.golden-dawn.com" and on their main page now they claim to have the rites and rituals to attain Ipissimus 

... For the first time ever, the complete, 3 order Golden Dawn Magick System is available to anyone who is bold enough and dedicated enough to learn it...
 
You no longer have to end your Magickal training at Minor Adept,
as has been the case for 100 years.

The Secret Masters have finally revealed the rites and rituals
to attain even Ipsissimus (10=1) ...


And he goes on to explain why, etc. I wonder what those of you who know more about this than I think about this. 

I have had a look at this order when i was interested in the GD but i found them to be fairly gimmicky based upon the way they present themselves online and through video media. It almost comes across as a sales pitch rather than an pathway to spiritual initiation. That being said i have no real connection with the order and cannot give any detailed view, but normally the first signs are often fairly telling.

If you are interested in joining an order you could perhaps try and look into the Builders of Adytum or the Servants of Light, they are fairly well developed schools based upon my research, coming from a Paul Foster Case linage and an Dion Fortune linage. You also have the Regardie linage coming from the Cicero's and the O.T.O from Crowley.

I was a member of the SOL for a short time, i found them to be fairly professional and the correspondence course offered looked detailed, they offer mentor correspondence courses online. If it is the Kabbalah you are most interested in for archetypal study, i recall Will Partiff offering an correspondence course , i found his book highly accessible and modern in comparison to some of the older Textbooks based from the Victorian age or some that are stuck in that rhetoric.

The SOL course is does come with a Christian bias though.

I feel the same way, their home page is now essential a sales pitch and that makes me a bit hesitant. They also state that they are the only true continuation of the Golden Dawn and how he has a nice big house, The partner of his dreams and a jaguar sports car because of the work (which is fine) but, that is not what I'm there for. 

I did look at the SOL and Will Parfitt's course and they look promising. SOL stood out to me right away, though after looking at the price being in pounds and the Canadian dollar being only worth half of that, they are not cheap In the slightest.