Commodity market The price of gold bullion fell dramatically on 12 April 2013 and analysts frantically sought explanations. Rumors spread that the European Central Bank (ECB) would force Cyprus to sell its gold reserves in response to its financial crisis. Major banks such as Goldman Sachs began immediately to short gold bullion. Investors scrambled to liquidate their exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and margin call selling accelerated. George Gero, precious metals commodities expert at the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Wealth Management section reported that he had not seen selling of gold bullion as panicked as this in his forty years in commodity markets.
Ordo Aurum Solis such as the "Llewellyn Practical Guide to Astral Projection" and "Llewellyn Practical Guide to Creative Visualization", as well as their seminal work (reprinted in three volumes) outlining the philosophy and practices of Ordo Aurum Solis: "The Magical Philosophy". Despite a few similarities to the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, some of its descendants, various Thelemic orders, and other groups stemming from the Rosicrucian revival of the 19th century, Ordo Aurum Solis represents a distinct and unique system of magical philosophy and practice based on the Ogdoadic Tradition The Ogdoadic Tradition stems from the Mediterranean mystery religions of ancient Greece