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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''William Wynn Westcott''' (November 17, 1848 - July 30, 1925) was a British esotericist and ceremonial magician. He was born in Leamington, Warwickshire, England.<br />
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A doctor of medicine by trade, he became active in [[Freemasonry]] in 1871, becoming Master of his home Lodge in 1874 and later also of the prestigious [[''Quatuor Coronati'']] research lodge, as well as achieving other Masonic distinctions. He studied the [[Kabbalah]] and by 1880 became active in the ''[[Societas Rosicruciana]] in Anglia'' before co-founding the [[Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn]] with [[Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers]] in 1888. By then he was also active in the [[Theosophical Society]]. He devised and organized the Golden Dawn's rituals with Mathers and [[W.R. Woodman]], who preceded him as ''Supreme Magus'' of the S.R.I.A. and like Westcott was one of the foremost exponents of [[Hermeticism]] of the time.<br />
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In 1896, he abandoned public involvement with the Golden Dawn due to pressure regarding his job as a Crown Coroner, with which it was seen as an unseemly association. He continued to head the S.R.I.A. and later was involved with the Golden Dawn breakaway [[Stella Matutina]]. He retired as a coroner after 1910, emigrated to South Africa in 1918, and died in Durban in 1925.<br />
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He was the author of many books on [[occult]] topics.<br />
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This text was slightly edited from: Wikipedia. (2004). ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wynn_Westcott William Wynn Westcott]''. Retrieved Sept. 29, 2004.</div>Phos