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There are as many theories for the origin of the cipher document, and hence the G.D., as there are people studying the Order's history. Some of them follow:

1. The cipher document was a forgery by Westcott himself. Fraulein Sprengel was invented to give credence to the newly formed order. Unless you are planning to have the entire Order be a fraud, with no magical abilities what-soever, this doesn't seem the best suited to the Castle Falkenstein world.
2. There really was a German Order, and it already had a branch in London, founded around 1810. This order would have been ultra-secret, and there still isn't any solid proof that it existed, nor that the Golden Dawn was related to it. Fraulein Sprengel was a code word to acknowledge the GDs origin.
3. There was no German order, and the Golden Dawn is an offshoot of the Masonic/Rosicrucian order to which all three men belonged as early as 1881. Fraulein Sprengel was invented to give credence to the newly formed order.
4. The cipher document was legitimate, and the Golden Dawn is a valid offspring of an older order in Bavaria called Die Goldene Dammerung, or Golden Twilight. Soon after the Isis- Urania temple was formed in London, Fraulein Sprengel simply vanished from the picture, as did her German chapterhouse. Perhaps this didn't happen in the Castle Falkenstein world.

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