Neville Meakin (EOL) & Robert William Felkin (FR) were evidently members of a certain Order of the Graal, that Waite (SR=Sacramentum Regis) may have been affiliated with circa 1912 (see page 42):
"Order of Graal: EOL 40th Grand Master, his father was 39th. Dates from King
Arthur, had suspension of some 300 years down to days of EOL's grandfather. Three chief grades: Page, Novice, knight. Also many subsidiary grades. Much occult material but FR says there is nothing special concerning Graal. 3 Magi and during EOL's lifetime, FR was made Senior Magus. (FR had earlier told SR that he was far beyond EOL - but how could this be with EOL as Grand M. ?) No strangers to join unless there are 3 Knights in one Family (as when FR joined - being EOL, his father and his half-brother). Since EOLs death Order is in hands of FR. Thus FR is 41st GM but
he doesn't wish to be; in which case GM will be a relative of EOL's in Scotland. Had EOL lived he would have made Denis Felkin a page, also would have knighted his Scottish relative, whose name FR wouldn't give to SR. Still wants SR to be the Second Magus. Complicated and difficult rits. In Knighthood grade 3 (or 5 or 7 ?) archangels clothe the candidate. (SR sceptical about whole thing -RG)
http://74.125.45.104/search?q=cache...kin&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a
"The theory that all esoteric practices and traditions, whether alchemy, the Hebrew Kabbalah, the legends of the Holy Grail, Rosicrucianism, Christian mysticism or Freemasonry, were secret paths to a direct experience of God had been developed by Waite over many years. He was convinced that the symbolism in each of these traditions had a common root and a common end, and that their correct interpretation would lead to a revelation of concealed ways to spiritual illumination. "
-R. A. Gilbert: The masonic career of A.E. Waite
http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/aqc/waite/waite.html
"The aim of Waite’s Secret Council of Rites was the ‘stimulation and nourishment of Mystic Aspiration, more especially in Freemasonry, towards the Great Work of Reintegration with the Centre, or Union with the Divine as the Supreme End of all research’, and even though his Council was supposedly secret, Waite ensured that it would avoid any masonic censure by deliberately excluding ‘any identification with social or political movements’. There were eleven specified ‘Rectified Occult Orders and Masonic Rites’, each of which was assigned to one of the Sephiroth (including Daath) on the Tree of Life. First among them was ‘The Independent and Rectified Rite of Martinism’, which was ‘referred to Malkuth’, and which was designed to ‘act as a drag net for all the Rites, but especially for those of the Central Pillar’."
http://74.125.45.104/search?q=cache...ist&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a
This reminds me of a stimulating discussion many years ago on TarotL where it was suggested that Waite intended the trumps to occupy the sephiroth in an ascending and descending pattern...
-John