Unto A Golden Dawn – Dossier 3

April 11, 2025
Reader Authorization Level: Red-Cipher Access
Date: February 3, 1947
Prepared by: Agent H. M. Caldwell, Division VII, Office of Anomalous Phenomena

To the authorized reader:

What follows is a compiled dossier of significant documents, correspondences, school reports, and recovered statements concerning two individuals of interest: Edward Aleister Crowley and Edgar Allan Poe.

You are to review this dossier not as an idle historian but as an active participant in the protection of national and metaphysical security. The events herein do not remain confined to their period. Reports of unusual abilities—unverified but recurring—have emerged among a small but growing population, particularly among children of certain bloodlines or who have been exposed to forbidden texts. This file is part of a broader effort to trace the origin of these abilities and to understand the arcane systems that may be reasserting themselves in our post-war world.

Crowley, long known to us as The Catalyst, exhibits patterns consistent with what we have come to call ‘Reversal Manifestation’—a psychological and spiritual inversion that tends to precede anomalous activation. Poe, long presumed dead, appears in records where he should not, which in itself defies logic and suggests hidden hands at work.

More disturbingly, there is increasing evidence that their connection is not chronological but recursive. They appear to recognize one another across moments, even across documents. The mirror and the veil—terminology repeated across reports—may refer to the same boundary: a soft membrane between realities, where memory becomes material and death is not final.

Study each entry carefully. Patterns will emerge. There are gaps. Some documents may have been redacted or lost. I no longer trust the order of time in these documents. Or in myself.

We now believe this chapter marks the moment their entanglement shifted from symbolic to active.

This is not just history. It is a warning.

—Agent H. M. Caldwell
Division VII, O.A.P.

ADDENDUM FROM AGENT CALDWELL — SUPPLEMENTAL MEMO

To authorized Red-Cipher personnel:

It is at this point in the compiled file—following the events at Westmoor and the cemetery trance—that the Office of Anomalous Phenomena first became aware of the individual designated Aleister C. Unfortunately, by the time these records surfaced, it was already too late to intercede directly.

Agents are reminded that the signs described—necromancy, spirit invocation, erotic mysticism, and mirror-referencing speech—are not merely indicators of psychological instability. They are hallmarks of an emerging force that operates through historical resonance, dreamspace anchoring, and veil distortion.

These elements remain dangerous. But properly studied and guided, they may also represent latent tools of resistance. We must be vigilant. In the growing conflict against the Nazi occult infrastructure—particularly post-Operation Harrowgate—we believe such arcane systems may provide the only effective countermeasure.

Observe the signs. Learn to recognize them. And above all, prepare.

—H. M. Caldwell
Division VII

SECTION TITLE: THE DOSSIER
Compiled by Order of the Headmaster, for Internal Review Only

1. Expulsion Report from Reverend Mr. Ellwood (Aleister’s Boarding School)

To: The Board of Governors, Westmoor Academy for Boys
From: Reverend Mr. Thaddeus Ellwood, Dean of Discipline
Date: November 3rd, 1884

It is with grave concern that I write to recommend the immediate expulsion of one Aleister C., third-year boarder, age 14. On the night of October 31st, Mr. C. was discovered in the disused east chapel, leading three other pupils in a so-called “ritual of awakening.” Upon intervention, we found the floor marked with crude sigils in what we believe to be pig’s blood, a candle arrangement in the shape of a seven-pointed star, and the missing dormitory cat—deceased, with signs of mutilation.

When questioned, Mr. C. appeared calm and unremorseful. He claimed, quote, “She came to us in light. Elanor opened the door.” All three participating pupils were hysterical, two were weeping, one catatonic.

I do not believe this is a matter for mere disciplinary action. The nature of the boy’s writings, discovered in his trunk, indicate a persistent fascination with necromancy, spirit invocation, and erotic mysticism.

I urge immediate expulsion and recommend the matter be passed to ecclesiastical authorities.

In Christ,
Rev. Thaddeus Ellwood

2. Medical Report (Possibly Mirror-Variant)

Filed under: “E. Poe, Subject #22A”
Date: Unknown (late autumn, based on foliage references)

Subject presents signs of emotional trauma. Night terrors persist for the third consecutive week. Refuses food. Claw marks observed on inner forearms and under fingernails. Nurse reports repeated mutterings of a name: “Al… Aleister…”

Subject displays both avoidance and fascination when the name is mentioned.

During observation on the third night, subject sat bolt upright at 3:07 a.m. and said, in clear tone:

“He walks through the mirror—no, the veil. The shiny kind that dreams bleed into. He told me Elanor isn’t dead. Just divided.”

Administered tincture of laudanum. Recommend supervised separation from Aleister C., pending further investigation.

(Unsigned)

3. Letter from Elanor’s Nurse to Her Cousin

April 12th, 1884

Dear Margaret,

You asked for news of the girl. I fear it is not good. Elanor is paler by the day. Her breath rattles at night like the dead trying to speak. Those boys visit her often, though I do not think they mean her harm. Still, I do not trust the dark-haired one. He stares too long. Leaves books under her pillow with titles I won’t write here.

Last night I found her whispering to her window, though it was shut tight. She said she was “listening to the sound of the veil.”

She said the veil is what the mirror hides. That was her phrasing.

I tried to remove one of the books, but she screamed. Her strength is failing, but her voice in that moment chilled me to the marrow.

Pray for her. Pray for all of us.

Your cousin,
Bridget

4. News Clipping: LOCAL BOY FOUND IN TRANCE AT CEMETERY

From: Blackwood Gazette, June 9, 1884
(Note: recovered from microfiche archive; original damaged by mold.)

LOCAL BOY FOUND IN TRANCE AT CEMETERY GATES

A boy of 14, known to some townsfolk as Aleister C., was discovered lying in a catatonic state near the southeastern edge of Fairhaven Cemetery just before dawn Monday morning. Witnesses say he was clutching a stone from the base of a grave marked Lenore Whitley, b. 1869 – d. 1877.

Sheriff Deacon reports the boy had no visible injuries but would not respond to touch or voice. Upon regaining awareness, he stated only:

“The door is open now.”

Officials believe the incident was a case of sleepwalking, though local pastor Reverend Braithwaite has called for prayer and fasting, citing signs of “spiritual sickness.”

5. Letter from Poe to an Unknown Recipient (unsent, torn)

I am afraid. And I hate that I am. But it follows me, even in sleep.

He said Elanor would be fine. He said the body was only a shell and she had been shown the way. I wanted to believe him. God help me, I still want to. He sees things, or pretends to, or forces me to.

I saw her last night. I mean I saw her, standing at the edge of my bed, holding the locket I buried with her. Her eyes were not her eyes.

I asked him if he did it. He only smiled.

Why can I not leave?

I—

(The page is torn.)

6. Excerpt from Aleister’s Personal Journal (Mirror-Variant Suspected)

April 30th, 1884

She was too soft for this world. Poe doesn’t understand yet—but he will. Grief is the gate. I carved the phrase into the chapel wall. Beyond grief, glory. Beyond death, the bloom. Beyond bloom—rebirth.

I am learning to listen without ears. To see with the skin.

The boy they buried in the east field still speaks to me. He has no tongue, but his words are true.

I must be careful. Even now they watch.

I will become what they fear.

7. Sealed Church Document – For Internal Use Only

CONFIDENTIAL. Do not reproduce.
Issued by Diocese of St. Havers, October 1884

Subject: Aleister C.

The mother of the subject has reported unnatural behavior and blasphemous speech in the presence of sacred objects. Claims of “speaking in forgotten tongues” and “mirroring” (interpretation unclear) have been noted.

Father Mallory attempted informal rites of exorcism on three occasions. On the final attempt, the subject laughed throughout and whispered the priest’s birth name, which he had not spoken in decades.

Father Mallory has since taken a vow of silence and entered seclusion at the Abbey of St. Rook.

Further action pending. Subject remains at large.

CLOSING FIELD NOTE – Agent H. M. Caldwell

What we are witnessing is not possession, nor is it madness. It is convergence.
Crowley and Poe may no longer be distinct individuals, but two reflections circling the same fractured pane.
And Elanor—whether ghost, construct, or messenger—appears to be the hinge.

The mirror is opening. Pray we are not standing in its frame.

I believe they are circling something… or someone. A center that has not yet stepped into the story. But we feel its pull.

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