Commodity money as a theoretical backing for federally issued "gold certificates" to substitute for the gold. Between 1933 and 1970 (when the U.S. officially left the gold standard), one U.S. dollar was technically worth exactly 1/35 of a troy ounce (889 mg) of gold. However, actual trade in gold bullion as a precious metal within the United States was banned after 1933, with the explicit purpose of preventing the "hoarding" of private gold during an economic depression period in which maximal circulation of money was desired by influential economists. This was a fairly typical transition from commodity to representative to fiat money,
Ordo Aurum Solis "The Divine Arcana of the Aurum Solis" and "Rediscover the Magick of the Gods and Goddesses". Another book contains practices coming from the Aurum Solis. This is "The Magical Use of Prayer Beads". All these books have been published by Llewellyn Publications. Vivian Godfrey (Melita Denning) was diagnosed with cancer early in 1997 and died on March 23 of that same year. On June 14, 2003, Leon Barcynski (Osborne Phillips) retired as Grand Master and was succeeded by Jean-Louis de Biasi, the current Grand Master, who subsequently made a declaration that bore witness to the Hermetic nature of the work