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Finally, at around the 1910 period, came Crowley’s episode with
John Yarker. Yarker was initiated on 25 October 1854 in Liberty
Lodge No. 459
After Yarker’s death there was a meeting at Crowley’s apartment on
the Fulham Road. H Meyer was elected the new Grand Master General
and Crowley the Grand Administrator General and also a Patriarch
Grand Conservator, his status being elevated to 33º, 90º and
96º. Following this, Crowley did very little, if anything in relation to
the Ancient & Primitive Rite, concentrating his “Masonic” tendencies
in the body of the Ordo Templi Orientis.
In n1913 he apparently wrote to the United Grand Lodge of England
claiming his right to attend lodge meetings and affiliate as a joining
member. If any, the response would have been a rebuttal due to the
irregularity of his mother lodge. This correspondence is not extant;
all that survives is Crowley’s draft, transcribed from shorthand and
dated1913.
The United Grand Lodge of England does not recognise Crowley as
a member of the Craft. All his affiliations were with irregular bodies
and so they deny him recognition.
Aleister Crowley