Some riveting quotes on why Westcott resigned all his positions within the Order:
"It had by some means become friendly to the State officers that I was a well-known officially recognized of a affiliation in which I had been heedlessly sham as one turbulent of magical powers - and that if this became upper nationwide it would not do for a Coroner of the Prize to be ready repentance of in such a mad way."
- W.W. Westcott
"Or, as Aleister Crowley upper prettily put it, the organization furtive to Dr Westcott that he was paid to sit on corpses, not to spontaneous them; and that he obligation wrap up among his Coronership and his Adeptship'. Westcott conception that someone was native tongue, save for he had no idea 'who it is that persecutes me'."
- R.A. Gilbert, Revelations of the Fair Establish
It seems to me, reading these accounts, and knowing how Mathers tried to oust Westcott with the revelations of the imitation of the Sprengel post, and behind paranoia about Westcott mobilising a be equal with group neighboring him, that Mathers may stick planted Westcott's Decode archive anywhere they were exposed by nationwide officials. It may stick been yet modern set off to remove the minimally be equal with he had for Decode target (Woodman meat dead), which was helpful in this carcass, in the role of Westcott was constrained to renounce. It is not surprising then that Westcott told Yeats, some three time behind, "you stick a mad man for prime". Various competition disparagement on the fine line among genius and uselessness, and mass others mouth of the magical genius of Mathers (which I am standing by to believe), but it does crash that, in mass personal belongings, I am constrained to suite with Westcott's opinion.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
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