| Paul Foster Case
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October 3, 1884 – March 2, 1954 Founder of the Los Angeles occult school, the Builders of the Adytum (B.O.T.A.), Paul Foster Case also wrote such books as The Book of Tokens, a collection of meditations on the 22 Tarot Keys of the Major Arcana. He was initiated into the Second Order of the Thoth-Hermes Temple of the Golden Dawn (Alpha et Omega) on May 16, 1920, while in New York. Initiated: March 22, 1926 Passed: April 12, 1926 Raised, June 28, 1926 Fairport Lodge No. 476, Fairport, New York. Affiliated: September 5, 1944 Demitted: June 2, 1953 Hollenbeck Lodge No. 319, Los Angeles Affiliated: June 2, 1953 Eagle Rock Lodge No. 422, Los Angeles
Source: membership archives of the Grand Lodge, F. & A.M. of California; and an unpublished biography of Case written by the archivist of the Builders of the Adytum. |