 The creators of the Golden Dawn got their idea to use a wand, as well as their other main ritual objects (dagger, sword, hexagrammic pentacle, and cup), from the writings of the mid-1800s occultist author Eliphas Levi.Levi himself mentioned most of those objects (all except for the cup) in his writings because they are in the "Key of Solomon", whereas he got the cup from the tarot suit of cups.In Levi's 1862 book "Philosophie Occulte", he wrote a fake excerpt of a Hebrew version of the "Key of Solomon", and that fake excerpt was part of the inspiration for the Golden Dawn's ritual objects, and especially their lotus wand.