I don't see how P B Randolph can have been initiated into the H B of L in 1860.
It wasn't founded until 1881. In
fact, according to John P Deveney, the causality was really the other way round:
"After Randolph's death, his wife, Kate Corson Randolph, and followers continued
his work. In the early 1880s
the Bath bookseller Robert H Fryar was the agent in Britain for the sale of his
manuscript teachings, of which
the most important was the 'Mysteries of Eulis'. When Fryer had first come into
contact with Randolph is
unknown, but the relationship probably dates back to Randolph's friendship in
the early 1860s with the circle of
'Christian Spiritualists' around the 'London Spiritual Magazine'. Hargrave
Jennings, never good at chronology,
wrote to Fryar in 1887, 'I first knew Randolph the American thirty-five years
ago ... ' Fryar's edition of 'The
Divine Pymander' (with Jennings' Preface) in which the H B of L first announced
itself, was the first edition of
the Corpus Hermeticum to appear since Randolph's own edition of 1871, and
typographically almost identical with
it. We conclude that the H B of L started to function within a small Randolphian
coterie already existing in
England, of which Fryar was the centre."
[from Part One, ' An Order of Practical Occultism', Section 9, 'Paschal Beverly
Randolph', in 'The Hermetic
Brotherhood of Luxor', by Joscelyn Godwin, Christian Chanel, and John P Deveney,
Weiser, 1995]
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