Hello, All -
In his 1975 *A Bodyguard of Lies: The Extraordinary
True Story Behind D-Day*, Anthony Cave Brown identifies
Dennis Wheatley as one of "The Martians", an interesting
WWII British PsyOps group that was rumored to include,
among others, Ian Fleming.
Jacques Vallee cites Brown on this in his 1979
*Messengers
of Deception: UFO Contacts and Cults* (and has anyone
here
ever read Paul Linebarger's (aka Cordwainer Smith's)
*Psychological Warfare*, 1948?).
Although Wheatley is known to have studied
criminology and
the occult, I have never read of his engaging in any
occult
activities ( or criminal activities, for that matter).
I think any list of /contemporary/ writers-who-are-also-
occultists-in-the-UK ought to include Peter Redgrove.
In 1978, he co-authored with his wife, the poet Penelope
Shuttle, *The Wise Wound : Menstruation and Everywoman*,
and in 1987 he wrote *The Black Goddess And The Sixth
Sense
(aka *The Black Goddess And The Unseen Real*).
Peter's own take on the ingestion of fluids from oneself
and one's partner(s) strongly paralleled certain
practices
among Kenneth Grant's 'Typhonian' community.
As a completely tangential aside - just before my wife
went into hospital, she brought over several books that
had come in the mail to my hospital; Susan Johnston
Graf's
*W. B. Yeats: Twentieth-Century Magus*, 2000, and Lucy
Shepard Kalogera's 1977 thesis (printed out by
ProQuest),
*Yeat's Celtic Mysteries* among them.
They made for great company while I was on the mend, and
I was happily astonished at just how far along Yeats
actually
was in creating his Castle of Heroes.
Thanks, Susan!
Cors in Manu Domine,
~ Khem Caigan
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"Heat and Moisture are Active to Generation;
Cold and Dryness are Passive, in and to each Thing;
Fire and Air, Active by Elementation;
Water and Earth, Passive to Generation."
*Of the Division of Chaos*
-Dr. Simon Forman
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