THE NATIONAL ADVOCATE

Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia

4 October 1910

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Personal.

The Sydney “Sun” states that Miss Leila Waddell, daughter of Mr. David Waddell, of Bathurst, has been captured by a “new religion.” Miss Waddell is now, the journal states, a High Priestess, prophetess, and leader generally of a new sect, followers of a more or less known poet, Aleister Crowley, who has set up a creed in which the main idea is described as being “to plant Eastern Transcendental Buddhism, which attains its ultimate end in Samadhi, in English soil under the guise of Ceremonial Magic.”