Mary Greer mentions this as well... maybe she got it from Ithell.
~Caroline.
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Sent: Saturday, 26 March 2011 9:35 AM
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Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Wallis Budge / Liber Resh
I have to put up my hand at this time to say, don't trust Ithell! Not
that I am saying everything in SoW is a lie, but it contains a great
many errors which call into the question the validity of this work as a
reliable source.
Regards,
Morgan Leigh
PhD Candidate
School of Sociology and Social Work
University of Tasmania
On 26/03/2011 1:30 AM, Caduceus Books wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> There is a line of thought that Wallis Budge was aware of, sympathetic
> to, and actively assisted the Golden Dawn's magical exploration of
> ancient Egyptian religion and magic. The suggestion is that the
> connection was informal and was a well kept secret, to avoid
> embarrassing Wallis Budge.
>
> I do not have a copy to hand but, from memory, Ithell Colquhoun's Sword
> of Wisdom suggests that members of the Golden Dawn held magical workings
> in a private room at the British Museum, utilising Egyptian antiquities
> for psychometry etc., the implication being that this was through the
> agency of Budge.
>
> I do not think there is any documentary evidence for this, but Ithell
> Colquhoun would probably have been recording an oral tradition learnt
> from her cousin, Langford Garstin, who was a member of Alpha and Omega,
> the Golden Dawn offshoot headed by Moina Mathers. It has been suggested
> that with the Golden Dawn, as with some modern magical orders, the most
> significant vectors of influence are not necessarily reflected in the
> paper trail.
>
> My best wishes
>
> Ben
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