The Hermetic Brotherhood of Light was a Fraternity that descended from the
Fratres Lucis in the late 18th century (in turn, derived from the German
Order of the Golden and Rosy Cross The Order of the Golden and Rosy Cross (Orden des Gold- und Rosenkreutz, also the ''Fraternity of the Golden and Rosy Cross'') was a German Rosicrucian organization founded in the 1750s by Freemason and alchemist Hermann Fictuld. Candidates were exp ...
), and was the seed from which
Ordo Templi Orientis
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(O.T.O.) ('Order of the Temple of the East' or 'Order of Oriental Templars') was created.
Carl Kellner and
Paschal Beverly Randolph
Paschal Beverly Randolph (October 8, 1825 – July 29, 1875) was an American medical doctor, occultist, spiritualist, trance medium, and writer. He is notable as perhaps the first person to introduce the principles of erotic alchemy to North Am ...
were members of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Light. In
Theodor Reuss
Albert Karl Theodor Reuss (; June 28, 1855 – October 28, 1923) also known by his neo-Gnostic bishop title of Carolus Albertus Theodorus Peregrinus was an Anglo-German tantric occultist, freemason, journalist, singer and head of Ordo Te ...
' 1917 O.T.O. Constitution, it states in Article 1, Section 1:
Sources
*Godwin, Joscelyn. (1990). "The Brotherhood of Light." ''Theosophical History'', Vol. III, No. 3.
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Greenfield, Allen (1997). ''The Story of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Light''. Looking Glass Press. .
*Greenfield, Allen. (2003) ''Hermetic Brotherhood Revisited.'' Luxor Press. .
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