yogiman
If I understand you correctly, you're looking for proof? Proof in the divinatory power of Tarot, proof that the Law was received supernaturally, proof that Crowley had visions (unless those visions were drug-induced, then they're not vision-y "enough")?
Here is a piece of my first post at the -Opening of the Key- thread.
So i took recourse to the internet in order to contact a real golden dawn order (around the year 2000). I got email correspondence with an adeptus exemptus 7=4, and after a few exchanges he proposed to visit me in Amsterdam, as he was staying in Norway for the moment. Though suspecting that he was looking for a cheap stay, i was delighted to be in the opportunity to meet such a high order member. We arranged to meet in the centre of the city, and i was quite nervous for the big event. When i saw him approaching he was a little different from what i had suspected. He seemed to be into body building, and his walk was rather macho. Worst of all, he was very insecure, and though he was pretty knowledgeable, talking about spirituality made him look even more hollow. He was not unsympathetic at all, but he lacked spirit. When we departed he gave me a thick book that he had written. When i came home i went flat out on bed of desperation, and vented my frustration to my girlfriend. My spiritual world had collapsed, and it felt like all those years of toil had been for nothing. I had a look into his book, and it was full of nonsense, and the foreword had even been written by the girlfriend of Israel Regardie.
This all happened 13 years back. I could find the man on the internet. He is part of a gang of new age criminals, though his infirm demeanor will not betray it, and no doubt they are making big money. Real temple, beautiful paraphernalia, phantastic humbug about secret chiefs. Outer splendour, but inner corruption, as Mathers would say. The former girlfriend of Israel Regardie is also in the scheme, which makes the latter also conspicuous.
I don't tell this because I dislike the guy, as he is not disagreeable. But this is a cancer in the spiritual domain, and has caused me terrible pain.
I hope this message will not be censored.