Budge's work was definitely an influence on the Golden Dawn, as I explain in
my Pomegranate article "Walk Like an Egyptian: Egypt as Authority in
Aleister Crowley's Reception of The Book of the Law"
http://www.equinoxjournals.com/POM/issue/current which covers other Golden
Dawn members as well, and more so in my thesis that it came from. The
British Museum was actually a hang-out for intellectuals back in the late
19th century and Macgregor Mathers, and others, definitely hung out there -
and studied as well. Mathers met his future wife Mina Bergson in there. They
all hung out a lot in the BM. I don't know if Budge's work was used
specifically for Liber Resh - the Crowley Liber Resh - is there another one?
- but I wouldn't be surprised at all.
~Caroline.
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Subject: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Wallis Budge / Liber Resh
Hello all,
This has probably been covered before, but...
I'm currently reading some Wallis-Budge - his translations of some
Egyptian sacred texts - and am struck by how similar they sound to the
words of Liber Resh, perhaps it's just the KJV-style 'thee's and thou's,
but is it known whether his work was an influence on the Golden Dawn, in
terms of their constructing their 'liturgies' (such as Liber Resh..)?
Thanks!
Christopher
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