yep, didn't Israel Regardie send a load of material for the GD over to NZ as a kind of 'seed bank' in case of norhtern hemisphere situation going awry? like Sydney to Auckland, there's a lot of Europe that's "only" 3 or 4 hours from here that i've never been to, don't sweat it : ) and going back to Lovecraft in Scott's post, i'm disappointed HPL didn't know more about NZ, as i reckon he'd have woven the Mythos quite tightly into a country with such wilderness and diversity- coloured lakes and geysers, caverns, volcanoes, aurora in the skies, a suitably non-christian tribe inhabiting, and those absolutely huuuuuuuge cricket-like things that live in the caves, the Weta, hell, they're definitely the spawn of something unearthly.... DE ----- Original Message ----- From: "Caroline Tully" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2011 11:49 PM Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Introduction > Very active OTO in New Zealand and, I believe, a Golden Dawn *lineage* > (Pat > Zalewski). Actually, I've never been to NZ (which is pathetic of me), but > I > have written for some NZ Pagan mags, the Paganism there is also of a high > standard too, from what I can gather. > > > ~Caroline. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Society for The Academic Study of Magic > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of D E > Sent: Sunday, 30 January 2011 10:44 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Introduction > > i forgot to say, having visited in 2007 i'd also be very envious of living > in NZ : ) > > i had a conversation about the OTO in a bar in Auckland with a > Maori-turned-Buddhist , which was pretty surreal > > DE