... JAMES WEBB calling himself MacGregor Mathers, Comte de Glenstrae, and paraded round Paris in the kilt, elaborated into a form of ceremonial magic. Mathers, the chief figure in the saga of the Golden Dawn, gradually assumed control of the Order he had ...

... squabbles which broke up that strange organisation and in which Crowley supported the eccentric Macgregor Mathers against a faction led by W. B: Yeats. Even Mathers tired of Crowley — who borrowed from his chief the habit of claiming Scottish ancestry and ...

... so important in Yeats's poetry. Comte de Glenstrae Later we follow him to Paris and hear more of that strange figure, MacGregor Mathers, first encountered in the reading-room of the British Museum. *“ He had lost the small jncome he had lived on when 1 ...

... —— r‘-'.\. 3 Mystery man ITHELL COLQUHOUN: Sword of Wisdom: MacGregor Mathers and the Golden Dawn (307 pp. £4.95. Neville Spearman). CONCERNING = that elusive apparition we know as- the MMM.MCNquhoun has a suggestion to make in her book.on the occulmetic ...

... in and practice .of ~magic - is central, that his early associations with Madame Blavatsky and Theosophy, and with - MacGregor Mathers and Cabbalism mark his early poetry and record his early search for a system. She goes on to show how these interests ...

... Robert Gibson , advocate , presided over a fairly good attendance . Following an address by Mr Alasdair Alpin Macgregor , Mr George Mathers . M . P ., moved a resolution caJlui upon the Government to abandon thefpoison gas experiments on . sm ' malg ...

... are often taken from dubious sources — Blavatsky instead of the authentic Hindu- Buddhist tradition; the mumbojumbo of MacGregor Mathers instead of the Kabbalah; spiritualism_ instead of the mystics; and so on. | It was not until his wife began to give him ...

... Hermetic Students , of . the- Golden Dawn founded in 1888 , and invested-with Masonic and Rosicrucian ritual , of which MacGregor Mathers ' was the dominating mind . ' ¦ . His next step was an attempt to found . in a castle on an island , in the middle ...

... published in a limited eC a few years ago. Another V interested in magic, the late Macgregor Mathers, was also att ;l j to the Highlands, and used to call self Count Macgregor of Glen & Mr Crowley's books have eC extremely rare, for they were fl lished in ...

... had to copy magical symbols by artificial light, even when the sun was shining brightly. He fell out with a soul-mate, MacGregor Mathers, a Scotsman living in Paris, who apparently sent malevolent magical currents that killed the dogs at Foyers, the lochside ...

... were:—Mrs Fraser, Nochnary; 2 Mrs Macgregor, Dunshalt. Mrs Christie and Miss Robertson entertained the company with songs. Tea was served, Mrs Duncan being th© hostess, with Mrs Holden, Mrs Christie. Mrs Macgregor, Mrs Mathers, and Miss Suttie as assistants ...

... the same fate as t wo of his G. Storrier came next, and C Four for 43. bowled Five for Mathers f bowled by Macgregor. and a 2 bye was run off Macgregor. Mathers had a b He however,clean bowled with | ball Si for 48. and took the ball had a! his first ...