According to the Temple of the Dark Moon page on New Zealand Occult and Academic Fraternities:
“Roel van Leeuwen is a graduate student in History, with a particular interest in military history and alternative spiritualities. He is currently working towards his Ph.D. thesis, ‘Child of Earth: the Legacy of Dr Robert Felkin’ and the History of Esoteric Societies in New Zealand.
As well as his academic interests, Roel is, or has been, a member of various Orders and Societies in New Zealand since 1987. These include the Builders of the Adytum, SRIA and Order of the Table Round.”
According to this page Roel van Leeuwen is a freemason in the Waikato Lodge of Research. In the magazine Inside it states that Roel van Leeuwen was a Kellerman Lecturer. The article New Zealand’s Kellerman Lecturer explains that “The lectures are named after the late RW Bro Harry Kellerman … who was the driving force in getting the Australian Masonic Research Council started in 1992″.
Amazon.com has a page entitled Reviews Written by Roel van Leeuwen. These reviews are actually quite insightful.
For example, in the review on “The International Encyclopedia of Secret Societies and Fraternal Orders” by Alan Axelrod, Roel van Leeuwen writes that “Arguably, membership in one or a number of fraternal organizations would be a necessary pre-requisite before embarking on a work of this nature as fraternal societies are, in most instances, a society apart and thus have their own idiosyncrasies in terminology and approach to matters. Frequently he simply ‘misses the point’.”
Could it be that membership in one or a number of Satanic organizations would be a necessary pre-requisite before embarking on a work such as his thesis? If the thesis is accurate, then can we assume by his statement that Roel van Leeuwen was or is a member of one or more Satanic organizations? If not, then has he simply missed the mark?
Alas what is not so good is an historian who, when he cannot bend a source to fit his thesis, ignores it.
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