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A.E.WAITE

MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

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A. E. WAITE

MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

R. A. GILBERT

A. E. Waite by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1922.

CONTENTS

First published 1987

Preface Page 9

Introduction Page 11

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From the New World Page 15

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'The Church of Rome I found would suit' Page 20

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Dangerous Rubbish: Penny Dreadfuls

and a World of Dreams Page'26

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The 'Tiresome Verse-Reciter' Page 31

ISBN 1-85274-023-X

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'Love that never told can be' Page 38

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'While yet a boy I sought for ghosts' Page 47

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Dora and the Coming of Love Page 57

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Frater Avallauniusand 'The Road of Excess' Page 67

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'Not verse now, only prose' Page 76

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Appendix D: The 'Most Faithful Agreement and

Concordat' Page 181

'He that aspired to know' -

A New Light of Mysticism Page 88

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Appendix E: (I) The Fellowship of the Rosy Cross,

Constitution and Laws Page 183

The Hidden Church and a Secret Tradition Page 97

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Appendix E: (II) The Clothing of Celebrants and

Officers Page 185

'Golden Demons that none can stay' -

An Hermetic Order of the .Golden Dawn Page 105

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Notes Page 189

Select Bibliography Page 199

The Independent and Rectified Rite:

the Middle Way Page 116

Index Page 203

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'Brotherhood is religion' -

An Adept among the Masons Page 124

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The Way of Divine Union Page 133

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Frater Sacramentum Regis and his

Fellowship of the Rosy Cross Page 142

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The Passing of Arthur Page 155

Afterword: The Faith of A.E. Waite Page 163

Appendix A: (I) The New Light of Mysticism Page 167

Appendix A: (II) 'A Tentative Rite' for 'An Order of the

Spiritual Temple' Page 170

Appendix B: The Constitution of the Secret Council of

Rites Page 173

Appendix C: (I) The Manifesto of 24 July 1903 Page 177

Appendix C: (II) Constitution of the R.R. et A.C.

Page 179

PREFACE

As I was coming into the world, Waite was going out; and it was my discovery

of this curious, if tenuous, link between us that changed a mild interest in Waite

into a fascination (an obsession, if my wife is to be believed) .for the man and

his work.

I discovered also that Waite was a very private man; his autobiography-

Shadows of Life and Thought, which I have abbreviated throughout the text as

SLT~reveals far less of his outer life than it appears to do, for Waite was more

concerned to expound his mystical philosophy and to encourage others to seek

for themselves the 'Way of Divine Union' than to record his personal history.

In the autobiography he epitomises the image he presented to W. B. Yeats: that

of 'the one deep student of these things known to me'.

But his maddening vagueness and cavalier attitude to the fine details of such

episodes of his lifeas he did choose to relate masked a desire to preservefor posterity

the full story-or at least the story of his adult life, for there was much about

his childhood that was well enough concealed to .make conjecture the principal

tool for its disinterment. Not that he necessarily intended such a careful

concealment, but rather that he neglected to take proper care of his papers (they

were stored in damp cellars and basements) so that many of them deteriorated

badly and some. of the most important were completely destroyed-including

everything that related to his mother's family, and all the letters he had received

from Yeats.

And yet there remain so many of his papers that no biographer could justly

ask for more; by chance (aided, as I like to think, by diligence} I was led first

to his diaries and then to the larger bulk of his papers: personal, commercial,

and esoteric. From other sourcesI obtained copies of his forty years' correspondence

with Arthur Machen, and of his equally prolificcorrespondence with his American

friend, Harold Voorhis. With the aid of the late Geoffrey Watkins I traced many

of those who had known Waite in his later life and recorded their memories

and impressions of him. All of which has taken far longer than it ought to have

done, and many of those who helped me when I began my pursuit of this multi-

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