[1] When occult writer Israel Regardie released documents of the Golden Dawn to the public it was the teachings of the Stella Matutina that he revealed, not those of the original order.
Those who were most interested in Christian Mysticism (led by A. E. Waite) took over the remnants of Isis-Urania, and formed the Independent and Rectified Rite of the Golden Dawn, and later the Fellowship of the Rosy Cross.
Those from the Morgenrothe who were more interested in occultism (led by Dr. Felkin) formed the group "Stella Matutina" – naming their Mother Temple "Amoun".
49 (commonly referred to as Whare Ra (Māori for "House of the Sun")), which operated in the basement of his purpose built home at Havelock North, in the Hawke's Bay Region.
[citation needed] The Amoun Temple of the Stella Matutina in London closed its doors in 1919[6] due to two members developing schizophrenia, one of whom, a clergyman, was later to die in a mental institution.
[2][9] From the very beginning, Felkin believed that the Order must in fact gain contact with the Secret Chiefs by the use of astral work and communications which were received through either trance or automatic writing,[10] as well as his wish that there should be unity among the Rosicrucians.
Their interpretation of the Golden Dawn techniques of astral projection and travel appears to have been derived from Florence Farr's Sphere group.
For example, instructions received on January 9, 1915, was put into effect by the foundation of the Anglican spiritual healers organisation called the Guild of St. Raphael, as Francis King notes, "were almost without exception, members of the Stella Matutina".
He speculates that, since Steiner was at that time also the Austrian Chief of Ordo Templi Orientis, his first Rosicrucian grade bore resemblance to the original first Degree of O.T.O.