Emin (esoteric movement)

The Emin or The Emin Society is an esoteric movement based on the work of Raymond Armin, known to members as "Leo". Originally, The Emin was named The Eminent Way or The Way. The movement arose in the 1970s in the wake of the New Age. The Template Network is a movement which offers activities inspired by the Emin philosophy.

The movement started in London in 1973. It was first known as the Emin society and then Eminent Way, which was later abbreviated to "Emin". The organisation was not formally represented by the "Emin Foundation", it was a sub-vector of the emins work. In 1977 an Israeli branch emerged, and a center was established in a Tel Aviv neighborhood in 1980. In November 1978 Emin founder Armin travelled to the US to start the Church of the Emin Coils in Florida. By 1978 there were also groups in Canada and Australia.

In Israel, Emin members established the village Ma'ale Tzviya in 1986.

Raymond Armin was born in London (1924) under the name Schirtenlieb (which he later changed to Armin), and did most of his schooling in London, living around the St. Johns Wood area. He started his working life as an apprentice tool maker at Borehamwood near London England. Armin did time in the R.A.F. as a quartermaster (His rank was staff sergeant) and whilst serving a year's WW2 assignment in India Armin was court martialled. This came near the climax of WW2, and during this time he married Violet Burton from Waterloo, who eventually became known as Ruth within the Emin.

After the war Armin worked at various locations around the London areas, as manager of a furniture company based in Camden Town, London, and then as a market demonstrator. During the late 1940s and early 1950s, while still living in central London, he became father to four children, one of whom died soon after birth. He relocated in 1958 to Yorkshire to follow a new profession as a travelling salesman selling furniture polish, and then a few years later as an encyclopaedia salesman. In 1960 Armin moved to Nottingham, and moved back to London in 1965, where he worked as a civilian driver for the police and a guard for a security firm.

In 1968 Armin and his son John Armin decided to start a school based in cultural, occult, religious and esoteric values. Eventually they met up with a group of people who were staying in London after travelling around the world 'looking for something', (they were first met by John Armin, an ambulance driver at the time). They formed into a group under the Armins' leadership, and all met regularly over the next two years, primarily at Leo's council flat in Hackney. At some point during this time span group member Deborah McKay joined Raymond and Violet Armin as a live-in companion, eventually becoming known in the Emin Society as 'Ethra'.

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