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Article: Charles Williams: Alchemy and Integration.(Book review)
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- March 22, 2008
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CHARLES WILLIAMS: ALCHEMY AND INTEGRATION. Gavin Ashenden. Kent, Ohio: The Kent
State University Press, 2008. xii + 275
pp. $55.00. ISBN 978-087338-781-1.
ASHENDEN'S IS A BASIC BOOK on Williams's neo-Rosicrucian and Q'abalistic concepts, developed from A.E. Waite and his (pro-Christian) Fellowship of the Rosy Cross. Williams, it is pointed out, tended to say he had joined the Order of the Golden Dawn, but instead he had been an active member of the Fellowship from 1917 to 1927. Perhaps Williams's use of "Golden Dawn" was because it was better known and had attracted such luminaries as Yeats and Evelyn Underhill, thus being more prestigious, as ...