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Supplied to him from an older occult group operating in Germany. Have claimed that the documents describing Enochian chess were among those Wynn Westcott (1848-1925) has been suggestedĪs the inventor of this particular variant, but some (including Westcott himself) Partially because of this veil of secrecy, authorship of this variant is The Golden Dawn considered Enochian chess to be a secret teaching. Including the movement of the pieces, to an "Official Ritual" written by Regardie attributes part of the information he provides, He also gives two arrays and the occult methodology whereby the others mayīe derived.

Provides a description of the boards and the pieces used in Enochian chess. In his book The Golden Dawn noted occultist Israel Regardie (1907-1985) Players was MacGregor Mathers (1854-1918), a founding father of the order. Players" with two other members of the Golden Dawn. In 1894 he played "a curious form of chess at which there should be four Nobel Prize-winning poet and Goldenĭawn member William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) records in his memoirs that (in the form of a Golden Dawn paper dating from no later than 1897) hasĬome to light, but no historical documents discovered so far have given Documentary evidence for the existence of the game Order of the Golden Dawn, who used their boards and pieces for divinationĪs well as gameplay. In this case the world of Victorian occultists.Įnochian chess first appears to have been played by members of the Enochian chess,įor Four Players, also has its origins in a particular subculture, The Dungeons & Dragons role-playing phenomenon.

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