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Correspondence from Percy Bullock[1] to MacGregor Mathers
69, Thornton Avenue, Bedford Park, N.
24th March, 1900.
Care et G.[reatly] H.[onoured] Frater D.D.C.F.
I am in receipt of your letter, contents of which I note. I regret, however, that it did not arrive before my departure this morning, one consequence of which has been that members of the Second Order met together this afternoon in ignorance of your wishes.
At that meeting, Resolutions were passed, copies of which I enclose you. It is unfortunate that you did not mark your letter to S.S.D.D. "private" in the first instance; now, however, that it has been freely disclosed within the Second Order, members feel—and I am bound to say I concur in the view—that the constitutive Warrant upon which the Order was originally founded is impugned, because the correspondence which now turns out to be forged (and which I and others remember quite clearly) led up to the Warrant, granting it in fact to the three original Chiefs.
Abstention on our part to follow the matter up, would clearly be the equivalent of compounding a felony, and the universal feeling is—and here again I cannot refuse my concurrence—that no obligation subversive of morality can be binding either by natural law or the law of the Land.
That this, too, is your own view is clear from the action which you have recently elected to take in somewhat similar circumstances, and the necessity for which no one deplores more than myself.
One more thing I wish to point out as regards myself and that is that the correspondence in question, shown to me as it was, years ago, was not without its influence upon my mind, assuring me (as I considered) in some positive measure of the existence of the Secret Chiefs of the Order; indeed, as I analyze these impressions, I find they were almost exclusively derived from that source. Certainly this was so in the earlier stages. While, therefore, I do not say that had these notions been lacking, I should not have progressed further, it is clearly open to others to take that position. As a piece of historical evidence, I know I have often mentioned the matter of these letters and their contents to others in the Second Order both before and since their withdrawal, and to that extent at least, have unwittingly assisted in the perpetration of the deception. To such, in justice to myself, I owe the duty of making a correction.
Yours fraternally,
Levavi Oculos.
1—Percy Bullock was a member of the Golden Dawn.
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