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that these charters came into Yarker's hands through the United States from France. The America - England connection can easily be explained when we consider the fact that PBR traveled frequently between the U.S., France, and England. He, in fact, by 1870, had established the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor in both England and Europe, along with a small circle of initiates in France who practiced almost exclusively his socio-sexual dictates for magical living as indicated in his work Eulis and other instructional novels. The German historian, Karl R. H. Frick, suggests that President Lincoln, General A. H. Hitchcock, and other notable Americans were members of the Brotherhood of Eulis, or the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, during the period embracing the Civil war. In England and Europe, Francois Dumas (son of author Alexander Dumas), Eliphas Levi, Kenneth Mackenzie, and Hargrave Jennings were considered students of his teachings. It is held that Madame Blavatsky was a member of his Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor but later became a lifelong antagonist of PBR over the issue of secrecy in the presentation of occult truths to the masses. It is believed that a document giving in a practical form much of PBR's sexual practices was in circulation among the German magical circles as early as 1868. These practices were most likely passed to Karl Kellner in 1895 when he received a charter to form the O.T.O. In 1912, after the death of Kellner, Theodor Reuss assumed leadership of the Order, but it is unclear if the practical sexual magical materials were passed to him. Reuss, along with Hartmann and Klein were given a charter in 1902 to establish the Grand Lodge of the Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis and Mizraim from John Yarker. This charter appeared not to have been successfully managed and little is known of this reformed Order until it appeared to be associated with the O.T.O.A. in Spain in the 1920's. It is reported that Encausse gave a charter for the O.T.O. to function in Haiti in 1910. This Order was created in December of 1921, and appeared to have the sexual practices of PBR, and contain additional Gnostic and Voodoo sexual rites. This Order, it is reported, continues to exist both in Haiti and Europe, and had issued an American charter in the recent past. R. Swinburne Clymer, one of the founders of the American Rosicrucian movement, based his philosophy directly on PBR's teachings. Certain Black churches of Chicago base their methods directly on magical healing and related rites used and introduced into their ministry by PBR. One could cite other contributions of this man to the growth and functioning of the Western Magical Tradition - this is not our aim. We hope that someone in the near future researches and presents to us the story of his life and times in a full length work. To all of us students of the Hermetic Way, Pascal Beverly Randolph has left his favorite affirmation - Try! New York City April