Het Nuit is one of the Lodges and a working body of the Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn. We meet regularly just outside of the City of Richmond on the San Francisco Bay. 'Het' is the Middle Egyptian word for temple or house. 'Nuit' is the French word for night and the name of the Thelemic Goddess derived from the ancient Egyptian Goddess of the sky, Nut. Thus Het Nuit is the Temple of the Night Sky Goddess.

The lodge was formed after a workshop at PantheaCon 2001 presented by Sam Webster, called "This is Ceremonial Magick, Not That". In an effort to show the difference between the magick he teaches and the technique known as 'ceremonial magick', Webster lead the Opening of the Hall of the Neophytes of the Order of the Golden Dawn in the Stella Matutina redaction. Volunteers were invited from the attendees to take up the offices and, with scripts in hand, each fulfilled their office admirably, drawing on their extensive Pagan practice, and successfully opened the Hall.

Out of fairness and a desire to not tease those who had just tasted of the Golden Dawn work, folk who desired to work lodge magick were invited to contact Webster. Much to his surprise many did, and thus the Lodge was born.

Since then the Lodge has grown and matured, redacting the rites and developing educational programming in accord with the Open Source philosophy outlined in the Manifesto.

Webster came to the Golden Dawn in 1984 after several years of independent practice. He proceeded through the grades, receiving his 5=6 in 1988, and served as Hierophant of the Lodge for a season. This Lodge was derived from Israel Regardie.

Due to a conflict with the three Chiefs of the Order regarding a rule change that would have delayed his goal of running his own lodge he was summarily expelled from that Branch of the Order.

With several other former members of that Branch, Webster formed the Heretical Order of the Golden Dawn to continue the work but, distracted by his graduate studies and the dispersed locations of the membership, the Heretical Order went into abeyance after two years.

After receiving his Masters of Divinity in 1993 and serving the San Francisco Bay Area Pagan community through founding Academy Arkadia, a school for the study of the Pagan magickal arts, and co-founding the Crescent Hellions, a coven dedicated to producing large-scale Pagan rituals, Webster presented the aforementioned workshop on ceremonial magick in 2001.