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JAMES WEBB

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 28 October 1972
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 158 | Page: 22 | Tags: none

business

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 07 July 1973
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 270 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

Yeats’s Story : A Modern Fable

... 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 ...

Published: Thursday 31 March 1955
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 309 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

—— r‘-'.\. 3 Mystery man

... —— 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 ...

Published: Saturday 02 August 1975
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 481 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

ISOBEL MURRAY

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 28 January 1978
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 603 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

POISON GAS PKOTEST

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 17 January 1931
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 127 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

vinm BOOKS A Celtic spirit with enigmatic authority

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 11 February 1989
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 748 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

Rooks 01 1 in : Day Yeats ^ d | Hopkins

... 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: Thursday 22 December 1949
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1204 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Highlands gripped by monstrous double-header

... 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 ...

Published: Sunday 07 October 1990
Newspaper: Scotland on Sunday
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 717 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

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... vities Mathers Tapely off b ¢ s ;4 e 0 S lnmdyshly-; fertile imagination. .. While the sceptic will protest ‘that fi was_all nonsense, Mathers in fact, inm tra ot | 4 trad long before C. G. Jung first formulated his ghm 'l'{-gn.~ k: i‘b course Mathers’s immense ...

Published: Saturday 21 August 1971
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1636 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

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... raillery at the age into which he has had the misfortune to 'have Iwsn born . TEBB KET OP SOLOMON TSB KINQ . By S . Liddell Macgregor Mathers . 21 s . not . London : Kcgan Paul , Trench , Trubner , ...

Published: Monday 11 October 1909
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 7217 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

EXHIBITION OF THE . SOCIETE SATIONALE DES BEAUX-ARTS

... Glasgow , 1 shows two water-colours , and ' tile names also appear in ' ^ the catalogue of two Scottish ladies—Moina ^ Mathers MacGregor . with a study in red challc , and . Winifred Hope ThomBom with three miniatures .. ...

Published: Thursday 23 April 1896
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2967 | Page: 5 | Tags: none