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Statement Regarding Heinrich Tränker
[Undated: circa 21 June 1926]
I went to Germany at the Summer Solstice of 1926 at the urgent invitation of a man named Tranker [Heinrich Tränker], who had somehow obtained credentials, serious enough in their appearance to demand immediate investigation.
I found this man completely ignorant even of the language of the classics of Magic and Mysticism. He was even unacquainted with elementary Latin. I found further that in his dealings with other people he was mean, unscrupulous and dishonest. I tested him magically and found him pretensions worthless and ridiculous. His conduct was so outrageous that it was necessary to make formal complaint to the Police. But though he was not actually imprisoned he only escaped by the skin of his teeth. He has now taken a list of some of the Orders which I represent, from a published volume of mine and proclaims himself to be the "Grand Master." This is a deliberate and stupid fraud. He cannot produce a single document of any kind in support of these absurd claims.
I publicly challenge him, for example, to give me any of the Signs of Recognition in the O. T. O. or the Hermetic Order of the G.D. [Golden Dawn].
(Signed)
TO MEGA THERION
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