Can the Golden Dawn system be complete (Are the teachings a closed end system)?

The other day, I made the mistake of looking at the Great Gherkin's website. To see if he was alive. Because he accounts for a significant amount of my pageviews on my old Gleamings from the Dawn blog. Is he (and his model wife) still selling what I was complaining that they were hawking back in the day?

No, the video title was about a mind virus. It seems that the Great Gherkin is selling sci fi in the second era of Trump. Probably with Democrats as the alien invaders. I didn't watch the video. 

That wasn't my problem with his page. The Great Gherkin will be the Great Gherkin. No, speaking as a teacher that wrote a piece for the Hermetic Golden Dawn Flying Roll commentary book, my issue is the idea that for less than three hundred US dollars, a student can get access to all lessons of every Grade of the HGD system, just so the Pickle can include GD membership as a bonus material to his current scam.

How did I get into this book?!?

That the understanding of the Golden Dawn system has an endpoint which he understands, and can write down--that's an ego. But that's why he's the Great Gherkin. Greater than Jesus and Crowley. 

It's no longer an active living Order, if the number of lessons is constant.

Speaking from personal firsthand experience, I know that going through it twice that an expensive hundred dollar a month course dollar course was adding new lessons at the lower Grades, as well as expanding a lesson a week at the highest level since its original intake. Same went for Bast Temple, which had two members for awhile in that expensive course, as did the Sanctuary of Maat. Business is as economics does; the influence of that course goes far and wide, even without the Big Black Bible.

Yes, I judge that perhaps someone has given up on the Hermetic Golden Dawn, just like they have given up on on True Wicca (Witchcraft), because you can only fleece the crowd once. What they really want is a flock that they can skin and grow every year--that's why they are Bishops and Cardinals. Popes.

And here's the rub. As much as I joke about my rivals, they might have a point. Maybe, there is a finite number of lessons that you need in each one of the Grades and Degrees, which can and should be given to the Neophyte because the 0=0 will trigger on its own every other trial and ordeal of the system.

Not an original thought. It's the idea behind the Equinox. Aliester Crowley. And he continued to add to it over the decades, so Uncle Al might have came down on the side of "How quick can we publish?"

There was a time in the 1980s, when a student of the Norse runes, or Wicca (witchcraft), was present with a limited library of what their subject was composed of, unlike today's rich nonsense of myths. 

As little as the Thelemic Holy Books. Not a deep bible at all. We made up a lot of stuff. For money.

Would a system based on the Norse runes today, with someone educated in the right histories, be a closed number lesson system? Or would it be an open "I will add as many lessons as I write this year" course? Am I the only person with unwritten runic lessons in their notebooks? Just me? Oh. 

But you get the point. Is the system closed, with a finite amount of knowledge to be had? The Great Gherkin, Golden Dawn as bonus content to the current Protect Yourself From the Zombie Sickness?

Or is the Western Mystery Tradition an open ended system where the symbols of esoteric religion stand in for the infinite; and each student can become a teacher adding to the tradition's understanding?

One is a more expensive choice, but we really afford the thinking behind the cheaper option?