It seems that we are not better at chronology than Mr Jennings was.
This being said, very few of those who have studied the H.B.L. agree
on its year of foundation. It may have existed far before it
announced itself.
--- In
evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "Rowan Berkeley"
<rowan_berkeley@y...> wrote:
> 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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