:Do you know of contrary claims we might quote in order to compose some kind of "he said, she said" paragraph? I don't, which is why your perception of bias mystifies me. This particularly concerns the claim that there was some inner order. If it exists, it is secret indeed. 
 :I just had a look into the Wiki guidelines. They say that primary sources, such as the Peter Carroll ones, should only be used in supposed of secondary sources. I'll have a look into Dave Evans' book and a new anthropological book by Gerhard Mayer on the German magic scene. If they substantiate what Carroll is saying, I'm putting those in. In that case, the Carroll statements do belong in.