From news.scruz.net!kudo20!tyagi Sat May 3 11:07:06 1997 Path: news.scruz.net!kudo20!tyagi From: tyagi@houseofkaos.abyss.com (nagasiva) Newsgroups: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.magick,alt.magick.order,talk.religion.misc Subject: BHeidrick: Occult Rumors (was Re: lovedays death) Date: 3 May 1997 03:22:36 -0700 Organization: KudoNet On-Line Services Lines: 82 Sender: tyagi@bjt.net Message-ID: Reply-To: heidrick@WELL.COM NNTP-Posting-Host: 165.227.52.9 Xref: news.scruz.net alt.magick.tyagi:10974 alt.magick:95241 alt.magick.order:1935 talk.religion.misc:266784 [from thelema93-l@hollyfeld.org: Bill Heidrick ] 93, Mogg Morgan wrote: >I have it that loveday died of ulcerating enteritis not >typhus - I probably got typhus and typhoid mixed, but ulcerating enteritis is reasonable in the situtation -- like getting side-tracked on a primary symptom or condition from the underlying illness. >feral cat's blood would be a convenient source for this, Or bad food and any number of things, especially fecal contaminated water. Here's Jane Wolf's eye-witness account and defense: "A villifying report of what took place at the time of the death of Raoul Loveday, at the Abbey of Thelema in Cefalu, having come to my attention, leads me to write a brief account of that unhappy event, as I was not only there during Raoul's brief sojourn at the Abbey, but I took care of him on his deathbed. "He arrived in Cefalu from London late in November, or early December, 1922, pale and aenemic, and had just recovered from a rather severe septic throat. "The weather at the time was sunshiny and warm. Raoul basked in this sunshine, spent much time out of doors, and soon showed signs of improvement. "By January he was taking long walks, and one one of these occasions, being thirsty, drank water from a small stream which was 'polutted', and was therefore taboo. No one round about touched this water, and Raoul had been cautioned about it, but forgot it, no doubt, at the time of his thirst. "A diarrhea set in, which after 10 or 12 days, became suddenly acute on the day of his death, causing a sloughing off of the mucous membrances of the intestines. "During this period he had been under medical care, but without avail. "That ceremonies of a sensational or ridiculous character were performed during the passing, is a part of the desire of some people to defile whatever they touch. "As a matter of fact, no ceremonies of any nature took place during his illness, or at the time of his death. (signed) Jane Wolfe It would appear that the cat-blood story originated with Raoul's wife, probably in her book "Tiger Woman". Even though Jane does not mention the "cat-sacrifice" question at all, she clearly attributes the infection to polluted water. She does deny that ritual was performed during Raoul's illness and at time of death. This omits daily ritual, perhaps by oversight, especially the variation on Liber Resh, Will and banishments routine at the Abbey. Other accounts of the events around that time indicate that Raoul's wife was in an extreme state of anger and tended to disrupt normal life at the Abbey, perhaps to an extent that even routine daily ritual was not done. The goat story may have originated in D.Wheatlie's fiction. Colin Wilson is notorious for making these things up or jumping on the most negative rumors. Simonds tended to include sensationalism and rumor in his account. Francis King specialized in copying material from books and including wild tales from interviews conducted immediately prior to his most recent book. King, in particular, contradicts himself in successive books as his interview sources replace one another. An example of King's unreliability is the allegation in one of his books that W.T.Smith performed cunnilingus during the Gnostic Mass at Agape Lodge. H.P.Smith, his wife later and the Treasurer of Agape Lodge at the time, denies this vehemently. In my experience, a Gnostic Mass set of the type seen in photographs of the old Agape Masses makes this form of oral sex impossible so long as the script of the Mass is followed -- the priest would break his neck getting down there while the priestess is seated in the prescribed manner. Instances of use of cunnilingus during irregular and unofficial performances of the Gnostic Mass, in my experience, have always involved a departure from the script -- usually with the celebrants behind the curtain, but in any event not in the prescribed position. 93 93/93 Bill Heidrick -- see http://www.hollyfeld.org/~tyagi/nagasiva.html and call: 408/2-666-SLUG!!! ---- (emailed replies may be posted) ---- CC public replies to author ---- * * * Asphalta Cementia Metallica Polymera Coyote La Cucaracha Humana * * *