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Correspondence from J.W. Brodie-Innes to R.W. Felkin
[Undated: circa 1913]
Early in 1900 Mrs. Emery [Florence Farr] wrote to me that Mathers [MacGregor Mathers] was hopelessly involved in with Crowley, and Crowley was such an utter blackguard that there was a dead-lock. I replied—more than half in joke—"the only course seems to be either that Mathers expels you, or you expel Mathers". To my surprise she took me seriously, and wrote "that is precisely what we have done". I told her then it was absurd and unconstitutional. That the so-called "Council of Adepts" had no corporate existence, and no society or club in the world could take such a step. Yeats [W.B. Yeats] told the story to George Moore as a joke, and Moore put it into his Reminiscences.
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