I wasn't at home when I wrote what is below, but relying on an aging memory, so it contains a mistake. Patricia Cornwall, a career crime novel writer did for her own reasons put the finger on Walter Sickert as the Ripper, but it is Jean Overton-Fuller's book ' Sickert and the Ripper Crimes' that contains his other confession to being party to the 5 related murders. Also in the 'Camden Town Murder', over a decade later there are accounts of Sickert's remorse at his involvement. Only Masonic connections [ my father was a policeman and said you could not gain high rank without membership] could have got Sickert access to the murder scene to sketch Emily Dimmock's corpse for a painting, and a painting entitled 'La Hollandaise' shows a naked woman on a bed with with facial injuries including a missing nose: one of the many Ripper forms of mutilation. In the painting 'Ennui', once owned by the Queen Mother, a gull flutters above the portrait of Queen Victoria, which he told his son was an incription of Gull's part in the crimes. Whilst living in Camden Town Sickert also wrote on the back of a painting, "the room of Jack the Ripper". The painting, in a Manchester Gallery, was confirmed by the curator on a T.V. programme to be of Sickert's Camden studio.

Last night's documentary on Channel 5 throws the whole matter into light again. 'J.t.R.,The Definative Story' it called itself: story maybe, but solution no. Eleven murders of a similar nature took place in the area of Whitechapel, or in near locations. Mary Ann Nicholls, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Beddows, and Marie Kelly are the victims that Sickert said he set up for Gull: all known friends of the labotomised mother of the Royal 'bastard'. Kelly of the last horrific mutilations had nursed the baby we are told. The penultimate victim was living with a man named Kelly, and gave the alias Mary Kelly when arrested as drunk and disorderly on the night of her death, pointing to mistaken identity and planned murder rather than random attack. On release she set off for home, but was found dead later some distance away in the opposite direction. Enter Royal coachman John Netley, who Sickert said transported Gull, and even victims, to crime scenes. It was suggested that he wrote letters to the press and scrawled the graffiti in Mitre Square, but he would have been an educated coachman to be literate in those days. The letters are probably hoaxes, but the graffiti implicating Masons [Juwes] in Mitre Square, does show inside knowledge.

With 6 remaining copycat murders much theorising, occult or otherwise is possible. Channel 5 seemed to favour Kominski as Ripper, and he may well have been involved on his own volition in regard to other unrelated deaths. Tumblety was dismissed, although he was a mysoginist and collector of biologial specimen body parts. Druit had alibis and Dr. Michael Ostrog wasn't even mentioned. Nor for that matter were Sickert [ when one witness description fitted him perfectly ] or Gull. No doubt Royal protocols still apply. As with Masons, it has to be said that this happened 123 years ago: times were very different and 2 misguided, even deranged, patriots do not besmearch whole institutions.

This Thursday is the anniversary of the night of the murders of the 2 penultimate Sickert confessed associated crimes.

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Hi again Mogg and all Ripperologists,

I know that there is vested interested in keeping Jack a mystery, but I am quite sure that most of the killings, aside from copycat or camouflage ones were explained in Stephen Knight's" J.t.R, the Final Solution", and laid the girls to rest. Two films: Depp's 'Fom Hell' and 'Murder by Decree', much B.B.C. research and a two part dramatisation for the centenary in 1988 all agree with this, despite dramatisation variation on detail. Sickert the Victorian painter and European noble confessed on two occasions that have made it into print: not to the knife work, but to identifying and even entrapping the associated victims for William Gull, Surgeon in Ordinary to Queen Victoria, an early vivisectionist and known to have incarcerated in asylums and lobotomised other women that had been embarrassment to the Crown. Gull had suffered and recovered from a stroke before the killings but was said to have impaired mental faculties as a result. He was reportedly incarcerated himself when the Queen found out, and another man who died on the day of his admission was buried in his stead, and his body was later taken to the same family grave upon his own death and local legend has it [ which I can personally attest to] that with the body of his wife, the grave holds three corpses. The 5 friends who had entertained Prince Albert at their brothel knew of an illegitimate child he had fathered to one of them, who was a Catholic, when he was an heir to the Crown and hence Church of England.

Another confession by Sickert is used by Patricia Cornwall in her book on the subject, but he made no mention of Gull on that occasion. The idea behind a confession is to clear one's conscience. Implicating another innocent man does not achieve that end.

The only occult angles involved occur as Gull, and Sickert were Masons, as were some of the Police who covered their tracks[ and that doesn't mean they approved of their actions, or knew of them at the start. Nor is it a bad reflection on Masonry generally which seems to have altruistic, if elitist, motives.It only tells us that rotten apples can spoil a barrel.] Psychics were employed at some levels of detection, and Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was being performed at the theatre in London at the time, and Gull had seen it.

R.I.P. girls.

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Spiro wrote:

if you send a review copy i will forward to robin odell the ripperologist
are you saying BPB was Jack ?
There have been various attempts to blame the murders on occultist : )
http://www.mandrake.uk.net/robinodell.htm
mogg

http://www.mandrake.uk.net/robinodell.htm

You may have a point there Dave, something no doubt to do with an Ancient Egyptian burial rite of plugging up black holes. Speaking of the Theosophical Society, in his last article before he died AC wrote that, "To acquire a friendly feeling for a system, to render it rapidly familiar, it is prudent to introduce the Star to which the persons of the drama are attached. It is hardly one's first, or even one's hundredth guess, that the Victorian worthy in the case of Jack the Ripper was no less a person than Helena Petrovna Blavatsky."

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I'd add _to the general thread_ that AC may have hated mediums but if there was a chance of penetrating the chequebook or bodily orifices of a potential pupil he would quite probably have claimed to be Blavaatsky.s lovechild if not dressed up as her in order to speed the process. Need to read between his lines and read some pupils diaries etc

Dave e
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David Mattichak doth schreibble :
<SNIPS>
> No spiritist, once he is wholly enmeshed in sentimentality and Freudian fear phantasms,
> is capable of concentrated thought, of persistent will, or of moral
> character. Devoid of every spark of the divine light which was his birthright, a prey
> before death to the ghastly tenants of the grave, the wretch, like the mesmerized
> and living corpse of Poe's Monsieur Valdemar, is a "nearly liquid mass of
> loathsome, of detestable putrescence."
>
> The student of this Holy Magick is most earnestly warned against frequenting
> their seances, or even admitting them to his presence.
> They are contagious as Syphilis, and more deadly and disgusting. Unless your
> aura is strong enough to inhibit any manifestation of the loathly larvae that have
> taken up their habitation in them, shun them as you need not mere lepers! It
> occurs in certain rare cases that a very unusual degree of personal purity combined
> with integrity and force of character provides even the ignorant with a certain
> natural defence, and attracts into his aura only intelligent and beneficent entities.
> Such persons may perhaps practise spiritualism without obvious bad results, and
> even with good results, within limits. But such exceptions in no wise invalidate the
> general rule, or in any way serve as argument against the magical theory outlined
> above with such mild suasion.

It seems to me that, in Crowley's case, this is
more in the way of "Do as I say, not as I do."

He didn't use 'mediums', true; he employed 'seers'
(his wife, Rose, among them), and the ill effects
of such employment / abuse have been detailed by
many authors over the years, including Crowley
himself.

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