29 As we've seen, Mackenzie used to be an occultist who truly went “back to the assets” and studied the Dee fabric on the British Museum and Library. He was once additionally the writer of the Royal Masonic Cyclopædia, therefore explaining the purpose of overlap within the Cipher MS. additionally, Mackenzie was once recognized to be the only Englishman who knew Lévi most sensible from the start of his step forward. In 1861 he went to Paris and had lengthy interviews with Lévi, the tone of which exhibits the deep solemnity and veneration with which Mackenzie met the French magus. 30 For the above purposes the recommendation that Mackenzie wrote the Cipher MS is now thought of relatively uncontroversial. Ascertaining the purpose in the back of them has proved a little bit tougher. As Mackenzie was once concerned with a couple of fringe-Masonic platforms and Orders, it isn't most unlikely that he was once getting ready a brand new set of initiations for someone. a few feedback which were made are that he used to be getting ready a brand new set of ceremonies for the Royal Order of the Sat B'hai, or perhaps the initiations for a deliberate growth of the S. R. I. A. itself. those stay speculations that are not likely to be tested until new proof involves the skin. From Ciphers to Rituals The Cipher MS got here into the ownership of Westcott quickly after Mackenzie's loss of life, and it used to be via MacGregor Mathers's elaboration on them, leading to the rituals of the Golden sunrise, that they got historic importance. This additionally applies to the Enochian components inside the MS. The incorporation of Enochian fabric into the constitution of the Golden sunrise initiation rituals and its magical procedure remodeled the previous into whatever rather assorted from what it were in Dee's unique method. The transformation needs to be noticeable in reference to the mode of non secular creativity in general found in fin de siècle occultism. in different places i've got defined the explicit kind of creativity eager about the Golden Dawn's reconstruction of esoteric fabric as hoping on a “programmatic syncretism. ”31 by means of this I suggest that there existed on the center of the esoteric undertaking one of those perennialism that used to be proficient by means of the late-Victorian scholarly discourse on international and historical religions and tradition. In scholarly discourse, the comparative approach now reigned superb; the 1st variation of James Frazer's groundbreaking Golden Bough seemed in 1890, years after the formation of the Golden sunrise. The fin de siècle occultists followed a lot a similar method of new details that turned on hand approximately international and historic cultures. yet rather than the commonly skeptical, rationalistic schedule of somebody like Frazer and the early anthropologists, they positioned a perennialist time table, which ended in a building of concordances among disparate structures. 32 additionally, any comparability necessitates a few schemata in which new details may be understood and appropriated. For the Golden sunrise, a taxonomic matrix was once given already within the Cipher MS. the whole fifty-six folios of the Cipher MS, and the Golden sunrise initiation rituals based on them, create a grand synthesis of a variety of image platforms, from alchemy, the Kabbalah, and astrology, to the Tarot and Enochiana.