And From Masonry, A Return To The Orphic Circle

Two bits of evidence for the Circle, and its members: a snippet from Hockley's testimony before the Dialectical Society Commission, clearly linking Hockley, Richard Francis Burton and Philip Henry Stanhope in a skrying circle, and Bulwer Lytton's memorandum on the practice of geomancy.

I am struck by Hockley's matter-of-fact tone in his testimony, and struck more strongly by the extent to which Bulwer Lytton's memorandum gives the lie to his testimony before that committee -- which was, in essence, that he was a scientist, investigating but reserving judgment. This memorandum is clearly that of an experienced practitioner.