Occultists adulate Cabell

The US Grand Lodge of Aleister Crowley's magical order O.T.O. has issued a recognition of James Branch Cabell:
https://oto-usa.org/usgl/lion-eagle/

The last name in the "Order of the Lion" list links to an essay about Cabell and Crowley's admiration for him.

That nominating essay is both edifying and in itself entertaining, thanks for posting. Clearly a good deal of effort went into writing it, and I note there are but 11 persons so honoured since 1998. It would appear the Order of the Lion is no simple Nominal Recognition such as our Chicago city council is wont to issue upon the slimmest of rationale.

Cabell is an outlier in the Order of the Lion, in that he is thus far the only one to be so recognized who was a) alive during the existence of O.T.O. AND b) never an O.T.O. member. (Other non-members were Rabelais and Randoph, both dead before the Order's founding.)

Edited to add: I'd like to think he'd enjoy sharing a posthumous honor of this sort with Rabelais.

Good work, enjoyed the essay.

Actually Cabell claimed not to like Rabelais. And Cervantes. Although the influence of both can be found in The Silver Stallion, Rabelais in Books IV and V concerning Jurgen's father Coth of the Rocks, and Cervantes in Book VII. And elsewhere. Cabell could be cranky and bloody-minded.

>4 Crypto-Willobie: Actually Cabell claimed not to like Rabelais.

Serves him right, then.