The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was a group.
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn . The three founders , William Robert Woodman , William Wynn Westcott , and Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers , were Freemasons and members of Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia ( S.R.I.A. ) . Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers . He is primarily known as one of the founders of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn , a ceremonial magic order of which offshoots still exist today .