 This led a minority under Felkin and Brodie-Innes, and including Yeats, to separate to form the Stella Matutina.Waite, Blackden and Ayton were now the leaders of the order which they now named "Independent and Rectified Rite of the Golden Dawn" or the "Holy Order of the Golden Dawn" which aimed at exploring mysticism explicitly abandoning magical operations from the beginning.However Blackden and Ayton in fact took no active role leaving Waite in charge.