[New-Poetry] Yeats, Bircumshaw, Sphinx

[Robin]

From: "Roger Day" <rog3r.day at gmail.com>

> It's important to point out that the GD Order was formed by three
> chancers: Dr. William Robert Woodman, William Wynn Westcott, and
> Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, who were Freemasons and members of
> Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia.

And let's not forget Aleister Crowley.  Comic writing lost a master when 
Crowley decided to make Satanism his day job, as anyone who has read Crowley 
on Yeats and the Golden Dawn in his +Autobiography+ can testify.

R.

Just looked -- the wikipedia article is useful here:

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleister_Crowley

RR.