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The Complete Writings of Robert Cochrane
Letters to Joseph B Wilson In early 1964, I had been working with
"Sean" and what we called the Wichita Group for about two years. It was
then that I saw an advertisement for Pentagram and, with his
approval sent for and received it. "Sean" pointed out to me that the
writings of Taliesin and Robert Cochrane showed that their path was a
first cousin of our own.
I was quite excited at the concept of
that 4-page publication and immediately was inspired to start my own in
the United States. I bought a spirit duplicator and began writing and
printing The Waxing Moon , simply distributing it among the handful
of people I knew in Wichita. In mid 1965 I decided to expand and late that
year placed a classified advertisement in Fate Magazine for my"
FREE Witchcraft Newsletter" I must point out here that "Sean" was quick to
ask me why I was so stupid as to call it a "witchcraft" newsletter since
we didn't use that term.
Throughout 1965 1 wrote to several
letters to Gerard Noel, the publisher of Pentagram , and described
some of the Wichita group's spiritual activities. These included trips to
the cave in Oklahoma where 2 years earlier I had undergone my "initiation"
in a manner similar to that described by Taliesin in his " A Wood in
The West Country " article.
I sent Gerard copies of The
Waxing Moon as I published them, then asked him to run a personal
advertisement for me, requesting correspondence with those interested in
the Craft, describing my interests, and also offering to send people a
copy of The Waxing Moon in exchange for 1-shilling postage. Gerard
published that personal in the fifth issue of Pentagram .
I
was thrilled when Robert Cochrane wrote to me. These are the letters he
wrote to me, complete, unedited, and without comment.
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