{"id":339,"date":"2020-01-30T20:15:08","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T20:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digital-brilliance.org\/wordpress_V\/?p=339"},"modified":"2024-02-11T09:36:25","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T09:36:25","slug":"the-soho-cabalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digital-brilliance.com\/wp\/the-soho-cabalists\/","title":{"rendered":"The SOHO Cabalists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In many esoteric traditions it is important to know one\u2019s \u201clineage\u201d, and  with that, the source of one\u2019s teachings. Great care may be taken to  preserve the accuracy of \u201ctransmissions\u201d and \u201cempowerments\u201d. I am  thinking here specifically of various lineages in Tibetan Buddhism, but  in general there is an interest in understanding the retrieval,  perpetuation, and handing-on of knowledge as it applies to successive  generations of occultists composed of chains of teacher and pupil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I  am certainly no exception to this. Many students of the esoteric and of  Kabbalah alive today in the UK can trace their lineage back to three  individuals \u2013 Glyn Davies, Alan Bain and Tony Potter \u2013 who began to meet  in Soho in the centre of London in the 1950s. I am (at some remove) one  of those students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The hard detective work of tracing and  recording their work and influence has been done by Cherry Gilchrist and  Rod Thorn and recorded on two websites. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first, titled \u201c<em>The SOHO Cabalists<\/em>\u201c, can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/%20http\/\/www.soho-tree.com\/\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soho-tree.com\/\">http:\/\/www.soho-tree.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second site is titled \u201c<em>Historical Sketches in Esoteric Britain<\/em>\u201d and can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/esoterichistory.wordpress.com\/\">https:\/\/esoterichistory.wordpress.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In many esoteric traditions it is important to know one\u2019s \u201clineage\u201d, and with that, the source of one\u2019s teachings. 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