Talk:Robert William Felkin

message: King, Francis (1989). Modern Ritual Magic: The Rise of Western Occultism is the only source I have come across linking Robert Felkin to the founding of the Guild of St Raphael. Recently (in Chrism, March 2006), minutes from the founding of the Guild in 1915 are published. The founders mentioned are the first Warden Revd Canon RP Roseveare, Vicar of St Pauls Depford and Secretary Miss Caroline Briggs (who seems to have been from letters one of the main early organisers getting it off the ground). There is no mention of Felkin, and I have to conclude that King is mistaken, or that perhaps more probably Felkin claimed to have founded that Guild when he only had a casual acquaintance with it. 
--TonyinJersey 07:28, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guild Origins 

message: This article is a bit askew about Felkin and Havelock North and the Bahai's. The story is yet to be told but Felkin had met Abdu'l-Baha the Baha'i leader in late 1911 at Lady Blomfield's house when Abdu'l-Baha was travelling in England (see her Chosen Highway). ABdu'l-Baha gave him the rings. Felkin gave them to Maurice Chambers (His father had brought Felkin out from England on the advice of some Anglican monks travelling in New Zealand) one was lost in Egypt and one was passed from Maurice to a Baha'i friend before his passing. However the Havelock connections with the Baha'is precede Felkins arrival in New Zealand. There is in the journal "Forerunner" published in 1908/1909 in Havelock North  an article by a well known British Baha'i, Alice Buckton. Buckton was connected also to the esoteric communities in London and Glastonbury (and the Celtic revival around the well), and knew especially the psychic Wellesley Tudor-Pole and would have met Felkin at Lady Blomfields, as Blomfields daughter was the lead actress in a Christmas play, "Eager Heart" that Alice Buckton wrote and ABdu'l-Baha attended in late 1911. Buckton also had friends in the Golden Dawn and lived quite close to Dion Fortune when she moved to Glastonbury.
ALso we have now a letter written to Maurice by the Baha'i leader when Maurice was in Egypt at the end of the First World War waiting to go home, but trying also to get to Palestine to see ABdu'l-Baha. In there Abdu'l-Baha remarks on  Maurice's "teacher" mentioning that he had met him "the honoured Dr. Felkin" in London. Thete is also a magnificent tome published this year in New Zealand on the life and architecture of Chapman Taylor, who built Felkins Whare Ra , was an active member of the Golden Dawn, and there are several excellent chapters in there and photographs of Felkina and his family in Havelock North. Maurice himself appears to have remained a lone Baha'i for more than fifty years. It appears he thought he was the only one in New Zealand until he met some Bahais at a country fair in the 1970's. There is also earlier communications between Alice Buckton and a South Island friend in New Zealand about visiting Abdu'l-Baha in Palestine that predates Maurice's and Felkins interest and we know of other connections between New Zealanders and English men and women who were in London during Abdul-Baha's visit. There are many other linkages not discussed here. Its important to note that Felkin never identified himself as a Baha'i but the spirit of the "Havelock Work" whose watchword was "Unity in Diversity" must have created affinities of spirit.
There is also an important link between the Shakespearean actor Harold Large who was associated with the "Havelock Work", Robert Felkin and the British explorer Percy Fawcett who went in search of the Great White Brotherhood in the bowels of the Amazon (and never came back) that remains to be told.
:Thank-you kindly for correcting this. I'd love to see this article expanded and improved; Felkin was an incredible man with a fascinating life story! Fuzzypeg☻ 03:47, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Felkin and the Baha'is

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From the time that Felkin assumed leadership of the Stella Matutina, he came increasingly under the influence of the "Sun Masters", the fabled Secret Chiefs of the Order, (...)
Just a question did he considered the Sun Masters as another name for the Secret Chiefs?
Thank you A Byrne
:I can only imply from Ellwood's book that he did. Elwood's book cites other sources which I don't have easy access to, but they would probably make this relationship more explicit. Fuzzypeg★ 03:58, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Sun Masters 

message: "Mary and Robert [...] joined John William Brodie-Innes' Amen-Ra Temple of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn on 1894-03-12."
Am I alone in finding the style in which the date has been rendered to be irritating as well as illogical? Surely "day/month/year" is the logical order in which dates in the Gregorian calender ought to be styled. Besides which, is not more in keeping with Wikipedia's tone to expand numerical shorthand into intact English? Thus: "12th March, 1894".
Nuttyskin (talk) 21:45, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date Style