Regina Agnes Kahl

Born: 18 December 1891.

Died: 1945.

Regina Kahl was a opera singer, voice teacher and member of the Agape Lodge and its primary Gnostic Mass Priestess in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Her motto was P.V.L.P. She took the Minerval Grade in the O.T.O. and the Oath of a Probationer in the A∴A∴ on 23 January 1931 with Wilfred Talbot Smith as her Neophyte.

Regina was a powerful personality. She was rather top-heavy in build, with all her weight seeming to be above the waist, with a large chest and developed shoulders. Slim hips and legs seemed to be almost not enough to bear this weight and powerful appearance. Her black hair swooped back from her face in an electric manner. It was heavy in texture and didn't need curling but only a good hair-cut to keep it looking manageable.

Regina had spent her life singing—in opera and elsewhere. She was a mezzosoprano opera singer and music teacher who gave concerts in Los Angeles in the early 1930s. In subsequent years, she would be civically active as a member of the Los Feliz Women’s Club and the Hollywood branch of the National League of American Pen Women (serving as its corresponding secretary before becoming its president), and even direct the Los Angeles Evening College Players’ production of the Gertrude Tonkonog Broadway comedy Three Cornered Moon.

Regina Kahl as the

Priestess, sitting on

the altar at 1746

Winona Blvd.

The Gnostic Mass

Wilfred T. Smith &

Regina Kahl

circa 1933

The Gnostic Mass

Wilfred T. Smith and

Regina Kahl

circa 1933

The Gnostic Mass

Wilfred T. Smith,

Regina Kahl &

Paul Seckler

circa 1938

The Gnostic Mass

Wilfred T. Smith,

Regina Kahl &

Paul Seckler

circa 1938

Wilfred T. Smith,

Regina Kahl &

Luther Carroll

March 1939

(front) Georgia Schneider,

Oliver Jacobi, Regina

Kahl, Wilfred T. Smith &

Jane Wolfe

circa 1936