Greetings!
There is a line of thought that Wallis Budge was aware of, sympathetic
to, and actively assisted the Golden Dawn's magical exploration of
ancient Egyptian religion and magic. The suggestion is that the
connection was informal and was a well kept secret, to avoid
embarrassing Wallis Budge.
I do not have a copy to hand but, from memory, Ithell Colquhoun's Sword
of Wisdom suggests that members of the Golden Dawn held magical workings
in a private room at the British Museum, utilising Egyptian antiquities
for psychometry etc., the implication being that this was through the
agency of Budge.
I do not think there is any documentary evidence for this, but Ithell
Colquhoun would probably have been recording an oral tradition learnt
from her cousin, Langford Garstin, who was a member of Alpha and Omega,
the Golden Dawn offshoot headed by Moina Mathers. It has been suggested
that with the Golden Dawn, as with some modern magical orders, the most
significant vectors of influence are not necessarily reflected in the
paper trail.
My best wishes
Ben
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