Greetings!
>It could have been an astral temple... and who knows what kind of
>imaginative reasoning might have been involved in thinking that Budge
>somehow "allowed" this. Then again, he might very well have.
>..
That is an interesting thought!
There may be an analogy in another vector of western occultism, the Nu
Isis Lodge. I think there are question marks as to who else, other than
Kenneth and Steffi Grant, were actually involved, and to what degree its
workings were astral, or imaginary. However, despite (or, rather, I
wonder, because of) this occult grouping as acquired mysterious status
and powerful glamour. Far more than other occult groupings that have
impressive extant membership lists and documentary records of meetings.
I am wondering if very powerful and influential vectors can be generated
in the field of western occultism through the combination of a small
action, a seed in the physical plane, which is fed by imagination,
astral vision and, indeed, rumour and exaggeration.
It probably does help if there is some real action in the physical
plane, giving things the ring of truth. It probably also helps if this
seed is small and elusive. To invent an example; we could imagine Wallis
Budge, was curious what results might be gained by psychometry and
privately and discretely invited some Golden Dawn members (who were
exploring this facility with Egyptian artefacts) to give it a go in a BM
back room and they kept records and he noted it in his diary. This
would be a less potent glamour than the rumour that does come down to
us, which says far less, has no surviving records, and yet is more
exciting and more evocative.
I think magical orders can be created from small seeds of truth fed with
imagination and astral vision.
With my best wishes
Ben
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