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Correspondence from Percy Bullock[1] to MacGregor Mathers
69, Thornton Avenue, Bedford Park, W.,
March 18th, 1900.
Care est V.[ery] H.[onourable] Fra[ter] D.D.C.F.,
I enclose you copy of a letter which addressed to you on the 4th inst[ant], in case by any chance it has miscarried.
On the other hand, it may be that, for reasons which you are doubtless better able to judge of than ourselves, you have hitherto refrained from making a reply. It has therefore seemed desirable to my Committee that I should state more clearly the views which have actuated them.
I am accordingly requested to say that your statements respecting forgeries by G.[reatly] H.[onourable] Fra. N.O.M. [Nom Omnis Moriar—William Wynn Westcott], appearing likely to shake the confidence of the whole Second Order in some of its fundamental traditions, it appeared best in the first instance to confine the consideration of the matter exclusively to the seven members whose names I have indicated.
We find ourselves in the position of having lent ourselves—and such influence as our long connection with the Order may constitute—to the dissemination of ideas, traditions or actual teaching to others who have come into the Order after us, and it is consequently with deep concern that we now gather reflection is cast on some of them—a state of mind which is contributed to by the uncertainty at present surrounding the matter.
If therefore you can see your way to accede to our suggestion (made in response to your offer to prove the matter completely) we shall all feel at least assured and be able to deliberate, if need be, in conjunction with yourself as to the desirability of taking further action, in order to place the Order on its true basis.
Yours fraternally, Levavi Oculos.
1—Percy Bullock was a member of the Golden Dawn.
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