From:    Paul Hume                              Area: Thelema
To:      Navitae                                30 Aug 94 08:44:40
Subject: G40L>-`%#ip3!93C                       UpdReq 

Navitae -
Annie Horniman was one of Moina Mathers' closest friends, a relationship
dating back, I believe, to Moina's art school days - their fathers (Horniman 
was wealthy, I forget if from land or "trade"; Bergson was a
noted philosopher) were also friendly (again, this is dredged up from
awhile back). It is for certain that...
- Horniman was a patroness of MacGregor's studies, providing a small
competence for him in England for some years as a librarian, and contributing 
to the couple's welfare when they moved to France.
- Horniman was among the first (the first?) initiates to the 5=6o when
Mathers introduced the Second Order rituals.
- Horniman was, at the time of the Second Order revolt, one of the 
"executive" officers of Isis-Urania - I seem to recall Imperatrix, but
Yeats might have been Imperator, in which case I presume Horniman was
Cancellaria.
- Farr had held executive office as well, but I forget if it was to
Farr or Horniman that the famous Mathers letter indicting Westcott of
procuring the letters from "SDA" to be forged was sent.
 Gilbert is probably the best source of good documentation on who was who in 
Isis-Urania, with Howe and King, each hobbled by their particular
shortcomings as historians, in the second tier.
 Horniman was touchy about sex, and sex magick, and particularly unhappy with 
Dr. Berridge some years before the schisms of 1900, for attempting to get 
people interested in the teachings of Thomas Lake Harris, an American and, I 
seem to recall, a student of Paschal Beverley Randolph's.
SHe was later equally unhappy with Our Mister Crowley, on the same lines.
There was a letter from Moina to Horniman, rather stiffly (to my view)
telling her friend and fellow initiate to cool it on the subject, and
hinting at advanced sexual formulae in the higher degrees, which has since 
been trotted out to argue that there were sex magick teachings in the GD, 
just ones that have not been spread around. I think this argument
(along with the text of Moina's letter) last surfaced about a year ago in 
either Mezlim or Eidolon, and can try and track the reference down if you
don't have it in your collection.
 93.
Paul


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From:    Paul Hume                              Area: Thelema
To:      Andy Bender                            30 Aug 94 09:08:32
Subject: Ashtar?                                UpdReq 

Andy -
I forget the Celtic Knot's number, but it is in DC - do you really want to 
call across the continent to pursue this?  You might ask around the
local boards first, anyway.  Remind me if I don't stick the number up here 
(the board also favors the Windows front-end Excalibur, though I am pretty 
sure it supports TTY).
 Paul


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