In the spring of 1903 the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn - a magical society beloved of WB Yeats - broke into pieces, fragmented by its quarrelsome members.
In the power vacuum created after the schism a well-respected Edinburgh lawyer fully expected to become overall chief. John William Brodie-Innes, founder of the Order's Amen-Ra Temple in Edinburgh failed utterly in his desire to rule the Order. The writer AE Waite witnessed his humiliation and noted that "it was almost pitiful to notice the change which came over the poor small Pope of Edinburgh".
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