a lot of immigration records and things like P&O passenger lists have been
put online more recently, which might make life easier
cheers
Dave
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From: "Caroline Tully" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 11:13 PM
Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Book of the Law in News 4 wrong reason
> That's very interesting. I'm sure more work needs to, and will be, be done
> on this topic.
>
> ~Caroline.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Society for The Academic Study of Magic
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>
> am fuzzy on the detail as it was a long time ago when i looked into it
> (around 10 years) but *subject to me being wrong on some specifics*
>
> i *think* there is a not very veiled hint in a Kenneth Grant book that AC
> switched the dates by a week to avoid the obvious ridicule about his
> receiving the foundation text of a new religion starting on April Fools
> day
>
> someone else (sensible research, can't recall the name) did some credible
> work on liner passenger manifests and found a strong suggestion that AC
> and
> Rose were on board ship in the mediterranean on the claimed dates of
> dictation
>
> which either adds weight to the Grant hint, or suggests that if the date
> is
> right then the BOTL was written on a ship, and not in Cairo, or they
> booked
> tickets but didn't sail on those dates
>
> i've not been able to look in his diaries of the time to see if anything
> is
> a bit awry, as i had hardly any time at the Warburg when i visited (twice)
> and was chasing down 25 other leads at the time, plus other books in the
> collection
>
> years ago i discussed this briefly with a few british Thelemites and they
> were very put out, as you might expect
>
> dave e
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Caroline Tully" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 10:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Book of the Law in News 4 wrong reason
>
>
>>>>and academicaly there is the possibility that it was written a week
>> earlier than claimed.... starting on April 1st...
>>
>> dave e<<
>>
>>
>> Really? What suggests this?
>>
>>
>> ~Caroline.
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