E A St George
Elizabeth Ann St George, Sandra West, “Adept, Wife and Mother”1), publishing house Spook Enterprises, College of Pleiades, developed “an esoteric belief system called A.D.I.C” “an abbreviation of Absolute Deity in Infinite Continuums” “and its basic philosophy can be summarised as the evolution of all entities in the universe towards Godhead.” 2)
E A St George's The Casebook of a Working Occultist appears on screen in the 1977 show Children of the Stones.3)4)
Events
Connections
Charles Thursdon, Madam Ruzo, A M St George, Christine Sempers, Bobbie Gray, ADIC, Spook Enterprises, Atlantis Bookshop, William G Gray, Raven Corvus Books (prop. Christine Sempers), Rigel Press, College of Pleiades (same address as Spook Enterprises)
In Casebook of a Working Occultist there is reference to invoking Mr Spock, the character from Star Trek. That St George was a scifi author and writes about invoking the character begs the question of what influence there may have been between St George's esoteric philosophy ADIC (Absolute Deity in Infinite Continuums) and Gene Roddenberry's creation of the Vulcan philosophy IDIC (Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations).
References
Books
- Legend of the Lizards 12451682
- Horus: The God Who Saved the World 1901736636 416218972
- Basic Magic Spells 1901736555 181421797
- The Book of Ghastly Curses 1901736539 339167273
- The Book of More Ghastly Curses 506217171
- The Oddball Prayer Book 624427190
- 'Dog' Is 'God' Spelt Backwards: A Study of Dog, Wolf and Werewolf Magic B001OOQUF0 228570453
- Spells of Laughter B0046K6DGK 877203068
- Stars are Calling B0046JYWW8 16307119
- Thoth: God of Wisdom 258043057
- Notes on Magical Work 12503579
- Return of the Witch 12463653
- The House on Warlock Road 12453519
- Report from Warlock Road 12478186
- Witchmight 16471984
- The Man from Witchmight 500014816
- Wolf Lore and Magic 520519251
- The Lizard Lady 12479191
- Voyage to the Cat Star 12910012
- Notes on Occult Pathology 506159218
- Ancient and Modern Cat Worship 16548812
- Khonsu: God of The Heavens 51780939
- South of Eternity 16609397
- East of Infinity 18875663
- West of Eternity 12469043
- Sekhmet's Children 63131892
- Medea: A Play 62468767
- Spencer Stuart: The First Fifty Years
- Will the real Tut-Ankh-Amun please stand up: a television presentation 62531562
- Will the real Frankenstein please stand up: a television presentation 62888334
- The Care and Maintenance of the Witch's Cat 62531521
- Ptah: The God of Creation 83450713
- Monkey Magic 315052565
- Return to Tomorrow: A Play 62795304
- An Introduction to Isis 63132240
- Meretseger: The Snake Goddess 62306275
- On Sacred Writing 67861796
- A Pagan Book of the Dead 62888387
- The Magic of the Planets 64302704
- Requiem for Miss Rampling 62795283
- Heket: Frog and Toad Magic 77794016
- Beyond the Reach of Night 16611688
- The Thursdon Correspondence (with Charles Thursdon) 59014356 “'These letters are copies of correspondence which was in possession of a friend of mine … They could be a work of fiction'–Editor's Note”
- Qaballah for the New Age 49641187 (a 10-lesson course available via post from Raven Corvus Books)
- Under Regulus: A Handbook of the Magic of Sekhmet 501394928
- The King in Yellow: A Mystery Play 810712598
- The Thirteenth Eternity 16595999
- The Qabalah Course 14511197
- Ritual Magic Course 81774218
- Amun: The Invisible Deity 503258091
- A Flat at Nicholas Court 12453520
- Soubek: The Crocodile God 47938648
- The Book of Broomsticks 618786546
- Drugs and the Occult 16591245
- Osiris: God of the Dead and God of Renewal 83960149
- Soda 16609659
- Yatara's Stars 13423134
- Ma-at: The Goddess of Truth 614260457
- Hathor: The Cow Goddess 50614485
- Hatshepsut 52084616
- MacBeth the Witch King: A Play (with A M St George) 876838146
- Horse Lore and Magic: A Study of Horse, Smith, Iron and Hero Magic 416218981
- A Study of Egyptian Gods 276222330
- A Guide to the Gods of Ancient Egypt 16925418
- The Thaumaterugicon (with Marbellius) 751696247
- A Place Called Werewolf Hall 12478183
- The Immortal Animal 751406248
- Richard III: A Play 16424014
- Joyflame of Algol 16609358
- The Cauldron Stirrer's Handbook 810999120
- The Winds of Salpurtaim 16598070
- Edge of Loneliness 18983082
- Add One for the Cauldron 12481397
- The Sands of Sakkara 12481450
- Rituals of the College of the Pleiades 16802455
- Hippo on the Housetop 16609363
- The Elements of Magic 506223096
- The Sleeper: A Play (with M Juste) 63382071
- Gods with Wings: A Study of Bird Magic 12456994
- Songs of Sorcery: A Collection of Craft Poetry 624426528
- Modern Witchcraft Course 876791753
- Zodiac in Gems 74521017
- An Alternative Almanack of Unlikely Saints (with Christine Sempers) 56468350
- Henry VII (with A M St George) 16477649
- The Prophetess 16609386
- Moment of Destiny 18950223
- Music and the Spheres British Library
- Lucky Charms and Talismans 245556076
- The Theurgicon 464611327
- The Book of A.D.I.C.
- The A.D.I.C. Prayer Book
External references
- https://twitter.com/memizon/status/1656696422111092736 “The author was Elizabeth St. George, a remarkable person. She wrote science fiction in the 50's, had a pilot's license, worked at Atlantis bookshop, had a toad pet called Beelzebub and was a white witch.” See also Atlantis Bookshop
- https://www.spiralnature.com/magick/powers-of-the-sphinx-part-ii-to-will/ — “The semi-autobiographical Casebook of a Working Occultist, by E. A. St. George, contains a detailed account of just how much was expected of an initiate.”
- https://stjamesseveningpost.blogspot.com/2012/12/children-of-stones.html — “The row of books in the Brakes' cottage includes at least one contemporary magical text, Elizabeth St George's The Casebook of a Working Occultist (Rigel Press, London, 1973). St George - otherwise Sandra West - was an active magical practitioner in the late twentieth century who died in 2007. Her semi-fictionalised, quasi-Sherlockian account of past projects includes an overlap with the world of fantasy television when she summons the 'thought-form' of Star Trek's Mr Spock to aid the rescue of Apollo 13 in 1970, having earlier rejected Doctor Who - 'an old man in a frock coat' - as inappropriate. If the book has any more significance than someone's idea of witty set-dressing, it's the last chapter which has relevance for Children of the Stones. There, the narrator confronts the guardian spirit of a long barrow. It's possible that this figure provided some inspiration for Dai in his role as guardian of the Sanctuary against Hendrick and the Happy Ones and against the time cycle, though ultimately it is the barrow itself, rather than Dai, which offers protection.”
- https://vaultofevil.proboards.com/post/49316/thread “Were you personally acquainted with Bobbie Gray? I recently read the revised edition of Alan Richardson's book about her husband Bill, winningly entitled The Old Sod (Richardson tells us at least three times that Bill would have happily embraced the title). The stuff about Bobbie is fascinating. She was a friend of E. A. St. George, aka Sandra West, whose poetry and novels (the few I have been able to find) I have enjoyed tremendously. Would love to read those accounts of spectral manifestations from Bobbie someday. By the end of The Old Sod, I came away more impressed by her than by him since she seems to have been more grounded and intuitive.”
- https://vaultofevil.proboards.com/post/49316/thread “In the Richardson book, there are frustratingly vague references to an early fandom group in the 1950s. It was where Bobbie and Sandra West first met and became friends, and I think Bobbie met Bill either at a meeting there, or because Sandra introduced them. I can't recall the chronology and it might have been left unclear in the Richardson book.”
- https://vaultofevil.proboards.com/post/49372/thread “In one of E. A. St. George's books, Casebook of a Working Occultist, published around 1973, one of the episodes involves the titular character invoking Mr. Spock to materialize via astral travel on a damaged spacecraft (in real life 1970s Earth space) to repair its “crude” but” fascinating“ engineering. I don't think Britain had a space program although I also recall a favorite Dr. Who story, THE AMBASSADORS OF DEATH, that involved a similar plot (minus Mr. Spock)–maybe this was wishful thinking on the part of British sci-fi enthusiasts. Anyhow I have wondered whether Elizabeth inadvertently gave birth to the Chaos Magick movement of the 1980s with that story, since one of the things that was mentioned frequently in the early writing by Pete Carroll and Phil Hine was invoking Star Trek characters such as Kirk, Spock and Uhura in magical rituals. It may have been just coincidental but my impression is that the British world of sci-fi and occult enthusiasts in the 1970s and 1980s was a fairly small and cozy one.” (N.B. Phil Hine says at https://twitter.com/PhilH86835657/status/1657771895654162433 “No, my invocations of Mr. Spock were inspired by (a) watching a lot of Star Trek and (b) playing the Star Trek RPG with” Rodney Orpheus)
- Alan Richardson and Marcus Claridge, The Old Sod: The Odd Life and Inner Work of William G. Gray 1908011122 (Index lists on “St George, Elizabeth A. (Sandra West)” on p 102, 104, 105, 115, 121, 154, 160, 198)
- Not to be confused with E A St George / Andrew St George https://amzn.to/3pUycmi (author of Browning and Conversation and The Descent of Manners: Etiquette, Rules & the Victorians)
- https://theblogofbaphomet.com/2017/05/25/want-magic-just-do-it/ “Finally, after much searching of cutlers and the few occult shops who sold that sort of stuff, at a psychic festival in London, I came across the marvelous Elizabeth St. George. Elizabeth was a real radical, I guess in some ways a chaos magician before that term had even been coined. I recall visiting her home in London and noticing a bust of E.T. in her temple, ‘a wonderful spirit to work with, ideal for interplanetary magic’ she assured me. It was from Elizabeth that I purchased my athame. A cool looking knife with a dark Toledo steel blade, turned ash wood handle and lunar crescent guard.” “‘I don’t really cast a circle’ Elizabeth informed me. ‘I make the whole of this temple protected’.”
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