Map of Tolkien's NĂºmenor, the island that sank into the ocean. The five corners of the island also form the shape of a Pentagram
...shortly after I had published the first version of this article on the Internet in 1998, I got a letter from a visitor, who was told by a high initiated witch, that both Tolkien and C.S. Lewis were initiated in the H.O.G.D. (The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn), which is a deeply occult, black magic secret society. The Golden Dawn is closely related to Madame Blavatsky's "Theosophical Society". During a discussion about Tolkien and his work, this male witch commented that "The Hobbit" and the rest of the Middle-Earth series was merely an elementary 'primer' for witchcraft. He was even a bit irritated at the lack of background knowledge about Tolkien among the people gathered. Later he added C.S. Lewis to the conversation as another well known literary figure who was initiated in the H.O.G.D. If this is true or not is hard to say, but it is interesting and well worth looking further into. However, there are more indications that both Tolkien and Lewis had Golden Dawn connections. The following website is no longer on the Internet, but I still have a saved copy of it, so I am hereby re-posting it: "Hermetic Imagination: The Effect Of The Golden Dawn On Fantasy Literature".
Lewis and Williams are said to have helped to keep the Luciferian concept of the Holy Grail alive. "The symbol of the Grail as a mysterious object of search and as the source of the ultimate mystical, or even physical, experience has persisted into the present century in the novels of Charles Williams, C.S. Lewis..."(4) Lewis and his two writer buddies, Williams and J.R.R Tolkien, of the infamous Inklings, appear to be strongly connected with the Priory of Sion mystery of Rennes-le-Chateau; otherwise know as the so-called "holy bloodline" or "Merovingian" mystery which claims that Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene were wed, had children and that their descendants became the rightful royalty of Europe, particularly France and Scotland. (5) It would hardly be surprising that Lewis would believe this blasphemous, repulsive lie since he had such a high regard for myths and had studied them so extensively. [See quote above.] The so-called "holy bloodline" is also the same as or symbolised by the "holy grail."
Some of the strange story lines which Lewis "invented" for his stories may not be so strange when compared with the mythology that surrounds the Priory of Sion mystery. The simple fact that plain English school children could actually be royalty smacks of the hidden identity of the members of the "holy bloodline" today and for many years past. Also, we find the "Prince Caspian"marries a wife who has "the blood of the stars" in her. (See chapters 13&14 in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and pg. 50 of The Silver Chair.)
Add to this the fact that Narnia is not a "make believe" place somewhere in Lewis' imagination, but an actual town that existed in Italy (later called Narni)(5), and you can see that Lewis may have been writing about things that he believed to be true. Strangely enough, the Priory of Sion farce resurfaced during the Middle Ages in Calabria, Italy; and then moved to France! (6) (The existence of a Narnia as a real place on earth may account for Lewis' use of the expression "What on earth..." in the Chronicles thus placing all this fantastic story line soundly on our planet. This then makes sense to those in witchcraft and paganism who believe the myths and idolatry from which he gleaned his plots, characters, etc. It is the doctrine of an invisible reality that can only be reached through magical means.) (Photo: A tower in Narni, Italy.)