BRM7: The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn - W. B. Yeats, Aleister Crowley, H. P. Blavatsky, Samuel Mathers, Victorian Magick, Theosophy, Kabbalah, Séances, and the Great Occult Poetry Larp

Keep this work free for everyone and unlock my entire corpus for $5 per month on Patreon!⁠Samuel Mathers is Bane, not Wolverine.People Mentioned:⁠Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers⁠⁠H. P. Blavatsky⁠⁠William Wynn Westcott⁠Aleister Crowley⁠John Dee⁠Edward Kelly⁠A. E. Waite⁠⁠Erich Fromm⁠ and ⁠Wilhelm Reich⁠References:⁠Douglas Haig, the Battle of the Somme, and Séances⁠"On 20th September 1906, Haig attended a séance with his sister Henrietta where he sought advice as to whether the expansion of the Territorial Army would be more satisfactory on a company or battalions basis. He was advised by the spiritualist a Miss McCreadie to adopt the former rather than the latter. Apparently, when Ms McCreadie gave this advice she was under the control of a native girl called ‘Sunshine’, who had Napoleon by her side. Haig must have found this circumstance most reassuring."⁠Kant's Hilariously Stupid Anthropology of Blackness⁠⁠Crowley Getting Kicked Down the Stairs by W. B. Yeats⁠⁠Victorian Mummy Powder⁠⁠Mahayana Buddhism⁠⁠Lawrence v. Texas (2003) Last Repeal of Anti-Sodomy Law in America⁠⁠The "Lost" Language of Senzar (Blavatsky)⁠⁠Master Hilarion (Also Blavatsky)⁠⁠Nazis Using Pendulums to (Not) Find British Ships⁠Out of their depth. By 1942, British Navy vessels had begun to shift the tide in the Atlantic battlefront, sinking more German U-boats than Hitler’s a