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Jane Wolfe Diary Entry Tuesday, 15 September 1942
Class meeting tonight went through with fire-works and steel.
Saladin gave a commanding talk and charged the various members who are disgruntled to rid themselves of personalities and read one of Crowley's most biting passages against trouble some women from "The Confessions" [The Confessions of Aleister Crowley].
Regina [Regina Kahl] has been in a state of revolt ever since she returned from Texas and has been influencing some of the little children of the Order. She has enlisted the sympathies of Sarah [Sara Northrup], then Jack [Jack Parsons]—always influenced by his woman. Betty has a quick, deft mind, the spirit to take what she wants, regardless; and I think her chief interest in life is amusement. And she thinks she's so right!
Thank heaven, Wilfred's [Wilfred Talbot Smith] talk straightened out Jack, and one or two of the others.
Mildred Graham [Mildred Burlingame] was up from Long Beach. As she sat across the room from me her face looked coarsened. Earlier in the evening I had a slight feeling of the sordid regarding her. She has stepped out of the groove created by environment, has left Allen Graham and is living with Ray Burlingame [Ray Burlingame], who left his wife for Mildred. I have no complaint about such actions—only the result of the actions.
Ray has been a great worker for O.T.O., possibly because his wife did not rouse his creative force, which he therefore released through O.T.O. How will it be with Mildred? An ambitious woman, who wants to dominate the situation and is already seeing herself at the head of a Long Beach group.
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