Hermetic Society (London)
Founded by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland in London,
England, in 1884, connected with the Theosophical Society
of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. Occultists S. L. MacGregor
Mathers and W. Wynn Westcott lectured to the society before
launching the famous Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
Sources
Mitland, Edward. The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward
Maitland and of the New Gospel of Interpretation. Birmingham, England
Ruskin Press, 1905.