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After some time on the western front, Percy Faccett would return home on leave and sit for hours in silence, head in his hands. On the battlefield he used an Ouija board to make tactical decisions. Lobbing artillery at positions it advised him to fire upon.

Victorian explorers gravitate between “Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent” and “I will fight from the heart of the beast!”

Very interesting tidbits on theosophy as a counterculture. Despite its orientalism it seems it convinced a lot of educated people to oppose imperialism.