The Order Today
Vivian Godfrey (Melita Denning) was diagnosed with cancer early in 1997 and died on March 23 of that same year.
On October 5, 2002, Ordo Aurum Solis was briefly constituted as an exclusively Christian order. Eight months later, on June 14, 2003, Leon Barcynski (Osborne Phillips) retired as Grand Master and was succeeded by Jean-Louis de Biasi, the current Grand Master, who subsequently made a declaration that bore witness to the Hermetic nature of the work of the order. The subject of Christianity was not touched upon in this declaration.
In 2010, the website of Ordo Aurum Solis made mention of the addition of a public branch of the Order called the Ecclesia Ogdoadica, a religious organization transmitting the traditional aspects of Hermetic religion to the public. Reference was made to the religious philosophy of Gemistus Pletho, a Greek philosopher of the Renaissance and heir to the ancient mystery religions. The priests of the Ecclesia Ogdoadica are initiates of Ordo Aurum Solis whose goals are to re-establish the cults of the Immortal Divinities, with the authority of their Hermetic heritage, as taught by the Sacred Texts of Hermetism. This in the hopes that it will promote a Hermetic way of life.
Since 2010, the Order has offered occasional training seminars, at least one of them in the United States. Moreover, new publications on the tradition of Ordo Aurum Solis by its current Grand Master are scheduled to be released in English in 2011. Several chapters related to the Ogdoadic Tradition can be found in his most recently published work.
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