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- From: SL500000@brownvm.brown.edu (Robert Mathiesen)
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- Subject: Re: Crowley and Gardner (and Brother Aureolis)
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 11:13:18 EST
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- Br'anArthur mentions that Doreen Valiente received Gardner's own Book of
- Shadows manuscripts (Texts A, B and maybe C in the Farrar's' _Witch's
- Way_), and when I checked back I found two statements in Valiente's
- _Rebirth of Witchcraft_ that Gardner had given her his original Book of
- Shadows. -- I had assumed that they had remained in her possession
- after Gardner's coven split in 1957.
-
- Is there any published statement, beyond the brief mention in Valiente's
- _Rebirth_, about how the manuscripts passed from Gardner to Valiente?
- Have I, perhaps, overlooked a more explicit statement in one of the Far-
- rar's' books? (What was *your* source, Br'anArthur? I am intrigued.)
-
- A bit more on "Brother Aureolis," now that I have my notes by the terminal.
-
- His real name was George Alexander Sullivan (stage name Alex Matthews),
- and his pamphlet on the magical use of concentration, meditation and
- visualization had the title "The Break of Dawn." It seems to have been
- published at Liverpool by the "Rosicrucian Press" in 1927, and was only
- 4 pages long. There is another edition, also published at Liverpool,
- but this time by the "Bohemian Press" in 1932 and again in 1933; these
- editions are 8 pages long. He was the leading light of the Crotona
- Fellowship of the Rosicrucian Order (so-called) and seems to have
- published various other pamphlets and lectures for it, but I do not have
- the precise details; these publications begin in 1923. His other occult
- organization was called the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes (this
- goes back at least to 1897), for which he wrote "The Origin and History
- of the Bull-Mysteries," published at Liverpool in 1922, 16 pages long.
- All this is extracted from the British Museum General Catalogue of
- Printed Books, under the headings "Aureolis," "Buffaloes, Royal
- Antediluvian Order of," "Liverpool -- Rosicrucian Order, Crotona
- Fellowship," "Rosicrucian Order, Crotona Fellowship," and "Sullivan
- (George Alexander)." Copies of all the items I have discussed are held
- by the British Library.
-
- Hope this is all of interest ... -- Robert
-
- (Robert Mathiesen, Brown University, SL500000@BROWNVM)
-