Posts by Hilary Stace
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Russell, how did your son enjoy his first voting experience?
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Re the by-election result, the Standard has a humorous camparison of Bill Ralston's political commentary in April and now.
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JC Beaglehole - distinguished VUW history professor of last century. He may have smoked a pipe.
Giovanni - the Wallabies could all be incubating swine flu and might collapse at half time, but they are winning at the moment, sorry.
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Surely that means that now Italy is going to beat Australia, though, right?
Anything's possible. We live in unusual times. Did you see that star over Mt Victoria last night?
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Sorry, just had to mention that as I know some misguided males who think sport is more important than politics.
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And also, I'm not surprised to hear the French won the rugby tonight.
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Carig - about 21,000, which is a smaller turnout than 2008 - so that is actually a bigger win than Helen's. Official results here
Islander - I'll mention it to the librarian at the Beaglehole Room (it's a specialist part of the VUW libary)
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Islander - should you ever want to part with your material, the Beaglehole Room at Victoria University is building up a significant collection of material on the School of Radiant Living and related artefacts and archives.
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Just had a check through Wikipedia of all this - has pretty good information on the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Robert Felkin, the Havelock Work (the group that invited Felkin to NZ), theosophy etc. Theosophy has a strong NZ history - Thomas Edmond of baking powder fame was a significant philanthropist theosophist in 1920s Christchurch. That rising sun symbol was widely used by adherents. I think there are Rosicrucians in NZ currently - another offshoot. All related philosophically one way or another, and mostly very benign. In fact Benjamin Creme of the current 'Sign of Hope' PAS Banner, comes out of the same tradition - he's in Wikipedia too.
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The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn had a significant presence in Havelock North in the early decades of the 20th century although didn't seem to have any sinister undertones. Robert Felkin was asked to come to Hawkes Bay by local landholders and citizens (assorted Quakers/Freemasons/spiritualists/theosophists/early new-agey types etc) and established Whare Ra at Havelock North. This Chapman-Taylor house is still there and is mentioned in Judy Siers' book on Chapman-Taylor.
Havelock North has a bit of a history of this type of thing and was later the centre of NZ's first new-agey movement, the School of Radiant Living, from the 1940s. I researched this movement a few years ago. One interesting aspect is the involvement of Sir Ed Hillary's family - his parents were founders of the Auckland School.