Weird old cults connected to author of Fu Manchu, the villain in books and movies for 100 years.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermetic_Order_of_the_Golden_Dawn

This guy Rohmer, author, made up the character Fu Manchu. Fu Manchu is the basis for the mad scientist super genius criminal villain. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sax_Rohmer ... he claimed a lot of weird stuff, including being part of that Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn aka Golden Dawn, which believed in magic and whatnot. Wikiped says it is the basis for western occultism (wicca, etc.) stuff. 

Was started by freemasons in Britain apparently, from like 1887 to 1903. Pretty weird! An influence on Led Zeppelin?