AtDTDA: (8) 219 Home at last!

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Nigel and Neville voice their delight as they return to the London headquarters 
of T.W.I.T, with Nigel (219.3) expressing "Back to he delights of Evil!" Lew 
knows these fools wouldn't know the real thing if it bit them in their asses, 
but keeps his own consul. I love the way it's phrased ". . . .sunk its pearly 
whites---or in Evil's case, mossy greens---into their more or less ambushed 
keesters. . . ."

Then we are spatially and temporally located. Chunxton Crescent (219.16)
is apparently an invention of  the author's, Hyde Park/Tyburnia (219.17)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde_Park,_London

          In 1902 Tyburnia was chiefly an area for the 
          rich and their servants, with some high-class 
          lodging-house keepers and shopkeepers.

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=22664

Sir John Soane (219.17/18) is a famous London architect:

          Soane displays an originality and control that places 
          him among a small group of architectural innovators. 
          In his work he concentrates on the detailing of internal 
          spaces and lighting. He frequently incorporated 
          shallow domes, segmental arches, and clerestories 
          which he emphasized with linear ornamentation and color.

http://www.soane.org/
http://www.soane.org/buildings.html
http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Sir_John_Soane.html

          ". . . .during its latest tenancy, dating roughly from the 
          departure of Madam Blavatsky from the material plane, 
          had become a resort for all manner of sandaled pilgrims, 
          tweed-smocked visionaries, and devotees of the nut 
          cutlet At this most curious of moments in the history of 
          spiritual inquiry, in keen competition with the 
          Theosophical Society. . . ." (219.18/22)

Madam Blavatsky was the crucial character in the modern occult revival, and the 
founder of the Theosophical movement.

          Theosophy is a fragment of the ancient, once universal, 
          wisdom teaching.

          The masters of Theosophy, located in Tibet and around 
          the world, preserve and extend this ancient wisdom. 
          Periodically they send forth one of their own - or a 
          messenger - to help spread this teaching to all of humanity.

          In the 1800's they had been searching for a century 
          for the next messenger and finally settled upon 
          Helena Blavatsky, born to a noble Russian family. 
          She saw the master who would be her teacher in 
          her dreams as a child. She met him in Hyde Park in 
          London when she was 20. She managed to enter 
          Tibet and was trained by those masters in Tibet from 
          1868 to 1870. From 1875 through her death in 1891 
          she spread that message around the world.

          Theosophy is the name Blavatsky gave to that portion 
          of knowledge that she brought from the masters to the 
          world. It comes from the term "Theosophia" used by 
          the Neoplatonists to mean literally "knowledge of the 
          divine".
 
http://www.blavatsky.net/

Society for Psychical Reasearch (219.23

http://www.spr.ac.uk/

The Order of the Golden Dawn (we will all now turn on our sanitary 
pedestals and turn to the cover of our sacred text and spend an 
hour meditating on "Contre-jour".)

          The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn is the First or 
          "Outer" Order of the Rosicrucian Order of Alpha et 
          Omega®, founded in Paris by S.L. MacGregor Mathers 
          in 1906. The Alpha et Omega is presently distinguished 
          as the only order offering education and physical initiation 
          in the entire "three order" system originally conceived 
          for the original Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, 
          from the 0=0 grade of Neophyte through the 10=1 
          grade of Ipsissimus.

          Unlike other orders, students of the Alpha et Omega 
          begin to practice magick immediately upon entering 
          our First Order, the Hermetic Order of the Golden 
          Dawn, then work a secret, magickal and alchemical 
          curriculum in our Second Order, the R.R. et A.C., 
          derived entirely from unpublished Hermetic and 
          Rosicrucian esoteric transmissions. Select students 
          may then be invited into the Alpha et Omega's 
          "Third Order" which teaches and practices the sexual 
          mysteries of Hermetic "Inner" Alchemy and Alchemical 
          Theurgy, originally obtained by S.L. MacGregor Mathers 
          from the "Secret Chiefs" in Paris.

http://www.hermeticgoldendawn.org/index.shtml
http://www.golden-dawn.com/temple/index.jsp

S.L. MacGregor Mather is crucial to the development of Crowley's Magickal 
system. Mathers was the source for the revival of use of the antique Goetia:

http://www.esotericarchives.com/solomon/goetia.htm

. . . .that "old black magic" used to conjour demons. The kind of magic that 
J.D. Rowling constantly points to in Harry Potter, but never, never calls out 
by its real name. . . .

          ". . . .and other arrangements for seekers of certitude, 
          of whom there seemed an ever-increasing supply as 
          the century had rushed to it end and through some 
          unthinkable zero. . . ." 

That "Unthinkable Zero" is an quabalistic concept, that which is before 
one, in some ways the "Unthinkable Zero" is the ground of being, but 
the "Unthinkable Zero" is also unthinkably nothing. 

I'll repeat that for those of you who are stoned.

http://purifymind.com/PostModernSci.htm

The "Unthinkable Zero" is also so very tongue-in-cheek, refering to our 
own era as well and TRP's obvious awareness of the time-warped nature 
of these "neo-phyte" movements, forever wandering about in the late 
Victorian/Edwardian era, like unquiet ghosts displaced from some 
Hammer Films production of the late 60's:

http://www.hammerfilms.com/

yet still having functioning websites, one and all. Note in Harry Potter 
movies, how life outside of Hogwarts (a word that can be found in 
Finnegans Wake, by the way) is modern and dirty, and life inside 
Hogwarts is decidedly Edwardian.

As Don Frew would state: "Coincidence? I think not!"

http://www.researchpubs.com/books/mpex_frew.php