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BUILDERS OF THE ADYTUm, LTD. A NONPROFIT

6018 SPRINGVALE DRIVE

J4ay 8th 1 940

ASSOCIATION

LOS ANGELES CAUFORNIA

Dear Muriel,

Gett ing letters answered is by no means m:t forte. And during the last six months I have had suoh a pressure of work for B.O.T.A., whioh is getting a fine start to a satisfactory rein-carnation, that letters have been harder than ever to write.

By this time, I hope. your book about bir thdates and destinies is in print. I f not, do send me one as soon as it'. off the presa.

The Tarot tradition was never published until I put it in the book. It is part of the tradition of a section of the Western Sohool with Whioh I had made cont aot before entering the Golden Dawn. Regardie has nothing about it. beoause most of his G. D. material ia from the revamped )(ss. of the Stella Uatut1na. whioh followed the usual method of oooultist. (ao-oalled), and out out whatever it could not understand. Gematria, for example, and the magic squares of the planets, have almost no referenoes in the Stella Matutina texts.

Our Chapter out here is growing and working. We have an average of 98% attendance at meetings, and though I have been holding them back a little. it looks now as if we should have a real Second Order in about a year-and-a-half. We are limiting Chapter membership to 30, and beginning with 7. As soon as a Chapter reaohes the limit, seven of its members must gather the nucleus of another, whioh then works out it. own destiny. Thus no group get. big enough to be unwieldy and develop clique

The correspondence work is grOwing, too. It had fallen on evil days, thanks partly to the depression, and partly to the well-meant but ill-advised attempt~ of the one who had it for awhile under her direction to keep the teaching. out Zk of the hands of all save those she regarded &8 "ohemically pure,-

Yes, Saturn is m:t most important planet. Elevated in the 10th house, it acoount. for most of m:t adventure. and misadventure But the Neptune aspect did me no particular dirt. Things have been restricted in some wayS) but there has been ateady development of the central idea. And the home life (which now inolude. two grand-children--girla, respeotively 23 months and 9 months) is happy as ever.

Your Brother in L.V.X., /LL l-," IV~ ..

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Deur Paull

It 1. a long t ime betwecr. l etters, but the Toaple did not g$t it.clf buil t in u day . Shortly a t ter t his one reaches ~O\l, you w1ll reoeive troll the E.P.DuttoD Co p&IIJ' a book, tltl" PUP.Bcrrr (I x.8TDY, _lch 1 hepe wUl pleas. YOl& trea ...... ral point. of Tlew. It r opresonto the e~d of & long and hurd tight, and the first "tep (I hope) of further 1fOrlt. 1 made up lIlY aind t hat thi. worla would only b. p!1bUlhed in the orthodox chanDels, by & r epa-tab1e publ1sbUg houae, b IIIlch a wa;y that it. would be aold through the eatabllabed cbamaal.. It. took _ e tiM, aDd a bout .ix re-wri tina., but here I t is - and I think yOel will agree that i t 1e a good-loold.DI product. ~

You 11'111 find your nue in the dodication. The alliteratioD o! tbe three names was reell rath~r tortun&te t aPulch W.3 the naae given to Charl La.enby in college becauee he was 10 ugly - mort tor pulchritude, an4 his friends Lll \lBcd . l t r ather than hi s o~, which neTar seemed to ~u1t hi.. I hopa he'. chuckling i n heaTeD 80aewhere over thc re-appearance of the ten day c}cl e

110 llt ae know what yOll think of it, and how thing:; go with you. It wa. good to s ense the happiness in the l etter 1 had froll you a year ago, IlIlCI I hope tbat eYerl'thi ng continues to denlop :lIIOothl;y. You ha4 am" a bit of happinesl and peace, It seells t o lIa .

1 hav~ ILde eODa rather iaportent discoveries in tl . cycle work, springing out of the Ten U&1' "'ycle 'oraula, which ~ or IIBj' not be pub-lished - 1 do not think tbe)' will - bllt which d ll i nterellt you naxt t iM I .ee you. I have found a 10D{. range ~ cllc period which the a.tr~ e .. to hav~ als.ed entirely, and which correlates with hiator.y perfectly. It all hlUlgs on the TRD, of cOllrse, "lth01l\ that, there 11 no po.elh1e UDderstaDding ot the tund.eaental cyclic pc.t tern - which i8 wl'.y your _ stand. t1raly on the ded1clition page of PURSUIT 0)1' DESmy. I .... aab.r_. you oat lie doTa and aade lie l earn that Uebrew alphabet and the clrcl OIl th- Tree, ~hen to me th~1 ere JQst so much gi bberi 9h1

Loui., who 18 well end active and enthusiastic, Join::! ae In WU'Il poe.t.1lIj!s to 1011, 8DIl 11,1 own go also to your Dorothy. I do lUte the piotur. or )'011 as a gr andtather, Paul l

Sincerely and affec t ionately your.,

IlURIEL BR1JC1 HASBROUCK





BUILDERS OF THE ADYTUm, LTD. A NON-PBOFIT

6018 SPRINGVALE DRIVE

Muriel Bruoe Hasbrouok 184 East End Avenue NeW' York, N. Y.

Dear !fur iel ,

ASSOCIATION

LOS ANGELES CAIJFOBN1A

July l~. 1941

Your good letter oame Friday, in the morning. and the afternoon post brought the book. Everything stopped then. and I promptly devoured itl Dot is spending the week-end on the desert with her friend. Kiss Newton, and has taken the book along. Probably Kiss N. will buy a oOW. She and Dot IrAy have some difficulties with your interpretations ot the numbers--Gspeoially with "initiative" tor 2. But the whole performanoe is so good that you may be sure it will be reoommended in 1fI' next oirou-lar letter to our B.O.T.A. members.

Your letter has been pasted into the book, right next to the dedi-oation page. That dedioation interested a friend of ours, John Comfort. son of Will !.evington Comfort, beoause it seems that W.L.C. and Puloh were friends.

Your artiole in Cosmo~olitan stirred up quite a tempest amongst the astrologeer. (that double eeH is intentional) out here. Of oourse they all :miased the main point, whioh you slipped over so nioely in the guise of a ooDfession--that prediotion i8 possible. ADd both Dot and I oan hearti4r agree with your oonclusions as to the futility of trying to help the ordinary oonsultant by astrology. I thought I deteoted a trace at

1ro~ in your moral releotions and reference. to Soriptural injunotiODa against soothsaying, but that seemed to be flavoring for the jam in whioh you oonoealed the pill ooncerning prognostioation.

I use the same basio principles in 1fI' ORACLE OF THE TAROT, but a. that work was intended for publio reading, I slipped in a blind, by using the modern rulerships of the decanates instead of the traditional ones. But one of our Working Builders out here happens to be a natural diviner. Probably beoause, having been for years a pulp-fiotioneer, he has a ' low threshold. Whatever the reason, he is a positive wizard at Tarot divina-tion. and the thing he amazes everybody with is the unoanny aoouraoy of hi. time-plaoings. both past and future. Of oourse, the real reason he suooeeds so well is that he is truly religious about it. Be doesn't fortune-tell. He divines--making h1maelf intentionally an instrument for the all-knowing Wisdom. Two or three people who oame to him with evil purposes in the baok of their minds have been frightened into aotual repentance and amendment I

The B.O.T.A. work grows, but rather slowly. Two men who are assooi-ated with me are experienoed in advertismg. and they tried various type. of oopy in the ocoult magazines. But we got suoh a lot of replies tr~

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If there's anything in your long-range method which has a bearing on ooming world-events, and would be helpful in getting the pattern olearer for us, won't you tell me about it? Not in a blue moon do I write suoh a length' epistle, but something seemed to pl"OJIlpt it this morning.

Once a month, I write a personal letter to every Affiliate. They may write as orten as they like. ask whatever questions they have. and make any oOIlDllents or suggestions that oocur to theIJ.. Their letters fram me go out in alphabetioal order, and touch on every point they have raised during the preceding month. This is a lot of work. but it keeps live oontact with every member, and prevents the few who are voluminous letter-writers from absorbing too muoh time. When they know they'll get just one Pauline Epistle. no matter how orten they write. they don't get impatient. ADd usually it is possible to boil down the replies into a very tew paragraphs.

My best to Louis. You two seem to be working toge-ther just as _11 as I work with Doroth'. We have sharply divergent viellB on 80me things. Yet we do about as good a job of basi. oo-operation as &n two people I know.

The kids are all well. Three grandohildren now, named, in the order of their agels Sylvia Louise (3 in June), Charlotte Loui8e (2 this month). and Sharon Ruth (Februar,y 12, 1941). The,y make me rather glad, 8ometimes. that this workshop isn't where I live~ Our home is just aorOS8 the street fram 6018. at 6023 Springvale. Plenty of room. and a big baokyard, ldth a sand-pile in which Sylvia and Sharon have a good time.

Your Brother in L.V.~.





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.. Illy W, 1941

Dear Paull

r.. waG delightful to recol ve yo ong letter I l: i th tho Bole o.JCc~ption of Louis ' unfailing Wlderetlllldiug of Iilld loyulty to Ii4Y Job , I r.avo been ,;orking very much ulone, thls lust f ew. oara:: , 814d your letter guve lAC , us it "ore , an ~ ~cnsution of compunioDshlp "Hell ll\atched the inner one that \Adonai be praieed!) is elwqs there. 'FlIat I par-

ticular~ enjoyed in your l etter, next to the big-brother-ontha-job WIU'II f eeling that I t gave oe , 111l.S the ... ~ i n .,h1ch you accepted PURSUIT OF IJr:STIlIY as just wl.a t h 10 . I suppose tl1&1. what J. &c tr)'11l6 to tell you ls that I enJo~ ed "hat .OU dldn' t N,Y even mox'c tbaA whl. t you c:.id 1i1iJ'.

D1d yon, or would you, send a v:ord direct to Dutton' I have told th~m t l!ll.t ;rou are, i n II\} opinioD, .!.!a .uthority on liorllotio philosophy eJld the I(a ala in &orlca. . Do , ot courso, o:cuct~ 11.0 you like about thls, I am neithcl' asking nor ::uggest1ng. I think that HRU hLS ch&rge of the job, Il.J\d evcI'J'bod;, wlll ue lIov ed to do whatever i s best f or it.

I ou are the f i rst aud ouly reuder of my m-ticle 1n COS1!OPCIITAN "'ho got the poi nt . I t wa~ so interesting that I wrote , and sold, tha t articl e nUI.tly blo . ehrs bef o!"e it 'l'c.a publ1sbea. The timing r.as perfect, it cue out Just as D tton I7I1.S hedbtiog be:ore the final plunge . HRll is .. good hll:;el! I hope . OU S I1' the. c1x-pae pul.>U 1~' that the .. ood IoIr Olancy gave I:lC 1n "1.IlerichD A, trolo!,.y . He tried 8 .. :f ully hrd to disai;ree witt ac, and failed entirely} the only thing he did ';8.S to cdl 118 a liar on h o points, "hie!:. I ,-, ent j cOl' rl,cted f or hi ' 1 i ,. 8. lctt~r ,,hi.3h he didn't pubUsh . lhe

"ab~rolO e"'rs are evidently above BUch th1n65 as editor l&! ethlc t; . I all hJ opt1ng your word, incIdentally, it'. a beau~.

Your e"parlence Ilith B.O. T .A. and ordiJUlr,Y e.dTerti a1ng i nt erests .e enOr1ll0UE~" One of ~ blg.,est pr otleIUI has beeD to find a polnt of corre-l a tion bet ween mk1['~ it livinG and obey1n{,; the tlmdeaental uu which forbid the " selling" of the R1sdom i t s elf. I huve tried numerous 0xperiaents, and cl.l or them have pr oved that ~ through Pl'OD-to-porson met!1ods cu the ,,'ork, in tiIQ' br!Ulch , be developed. 'Ihat 18, your decision to attrE-ct Dew studonts through already evtebllehed lIembers ls correct. We flnd th~ people ' Iho can usa - !lJlo. Pilii' for - our work i n broad trends only through t hose indl vi chu ls who have bee.n i n touch , '1th us, either as personal friends or lill per6on~.1 clif:nt e of aine. Louis wade, I t.at year , CAO of be ~101lt v:il.ia.'lt etrorts t hat tas ever baen lIllde t o prove the fallacy of thl. law, he failed t o prove the ftillacy, t:~erebl ;lroYing t he le .. , and wha t a f ew of lUI learned froJII 1t has been ,.orth far !lOre thlill ~th1ng else could eYer ha.ve beeD: The

, ./ Det reBul til lU'e JlUlt touched apon in ~ chapter "'IHIl ~aALIlliS 07 TIJIEftbut V it 1a unlik~l,y that they wlll ever be putlic~ developed or r ecorded. !hey hro tar private cir culation only, but - - l1lte the individual Ten Vay ~ycle rorllUla - II feeling is that RThe Boss- Wlillt s the. to be OD record, and I aa trying to obey tll1ll order 10 an i ntelligent iIIIlDner.





PFC II July SO

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Th ere Is a certain ssrle!; of ftplunc tary r elatiODshlps whlch se to be directly associated with t he tunduental chr.nges of mllll S pSl' chology wh1c.h JlAlte .hat we call hlstoq. Thia parti cular seri e 1.13 far as .. have beeD able to d1s ca9'or , has never been Cltudled &11 a lIerien L)' astrologers . Th is 1::; I t lIurprls1n , as i t Y:ould lIB.ke "boot as l i ttle 8

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The point about these possible, or apparent inaccuracies, is that the actual , t~ngible wcrk ~bat Louis and I have done in connl;; ct ion with the cyclica l changes in the vt..riouo markets ot this and ot her countries has tended to provide considerable evidence (I never, of course, uee t he '.lord "provs" in such a connection) that t he basic ten- day cycle p~ttern is so much more ucourate than ~ny ot her basis for measuring time in rel~tion to human psychologic",l c. a nges that t hese i undamenta l s can \,ell be taken ~s fundamental ly co rrect -- for u\ orkinc basis , t,~t is. You said to me , years ~go , t~t n o one baa eve . ~ orhed out a w~ of ... na.lysing the stock market, or t he commodi ty m .... rkets. through the use of "astrologic ... l" ml;;asurement :l . .t t ilC ti rne , I belie ve your statement ~s correct . 110 . i t i sn't; e h..vc (lone it, but i n doi ng h we h:..ve le.J.rned (the h ..... r d way) jUGt he, f ... r one 'rq go in tru st i ng =",n Judgment even of t!le siI:lplified ana basic po ttern 0 1 t he t en-day cyc l e structure, and -- most illl.;ortant. I t .~nk -- wbat addition 1 reali st ic f~ctors re neceosary t o use in oorr elation lith the t iming fac tors.

It has been a terrific job. and i t i s by no Deans coo~leted. but we ' bave ~ccomplished certain thingo. OUr aocomplishDents , I WD a...pvy to aay , are not only intellectual but pr ... ctical . In a "ord . they do biv ... reGults . And the odd thing i s that by beiDg obstinate enough to stick to the job in the face of what seemed. at times , to be i n~upcrable difficul t ies. we ~ve learned not only how t o use the t ime p~ttern, but also ~uite a lot of t he basic fund~ental laws of what is demanded of the neopQyte by the great Laws, i f aaid neophyte insists on poking his a. her (or his and ner) nose i nto affairs 01 such gre~t momont.

All of hich lonG-Winded remarks are supposed to bolst er up my statement t hat Jupicr. being LXblted in ~eo, not in Cuncer. ~s . are to do with the La y and th_ Lion than llith th..,.. Ca...riot. In _ ' . ord, if you ca n Iilake :coney in the cot ton carket bysticking t o b~ ic. aocur~te , t~e :ce~suremente , thcru muot ~ so~c thing in it -- a s the ~nulish sa W.AAt?

~leaBe l et me kno f . f aot , ~bout uue re I c~n get your book, and w,mt ot her m~terinl taero i s av~i :~ble for further study. for u s both, pcrticul~rly in relution to the Grade work .

As I said, we may be in California before :n:..ny leeks, and on of our m~in re~sons for c ocinS thsr~ will be to sse you --" e \lere hoping so IIlUch t oot you mi ght visit us in our/home i n th" . 1lderness, whic h it no ... seecs we ... re re~dy to l ea ve . Three yeare i n t he u ilderness should be long enough. don ' t you tuink? If one \,orks like t e devil ... 11 the time. and we re ... lly lw.ve, both of us . I hope you h!l.d a .. ond(;rful and fruhful tri p .oJust, and th...t it \,111 not be long before ve c .... n t..ll get t OGether in the flesh us well as in the upi r it of L. U. A. Louie Joino me in ,"~rw booa \,iohcs t o y ou t.nu to the It.dy ",,-o se aC l,lu ... i ntance we are looking f orW'cl.rd to mu.ki l,g oOllle time Boon --

Aftectio n,,-tely.





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