The Orphic Circle, Out In Public

They didn't call themselves the Orphic Circle -- that's what Emma called them.

In public, they referred to themselves, if at all and only early on, as the Mercurii.

And when they appeared together, it was usually in this form.

This is Richard Morrison, a member of the Mercurii, puffing the Celestial Planispheres (1830) of another member of the Mercurii, Thomas Oxley.

Both Oxley (d. 1851) and Morrison (d. 1874) lived to see -- in part as a result of Morrison's decision to inject clairvoyants into their astrological investigations -- the transformation of what was a social-welfare society for working astrologers into a network of mesmerically-inclined, spirit-mad occult practitioners.