Charles Stansfeld Jones
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Charles Robert Stansfeld Jones (1886–1950), aka Frater Achad, was a Canadian occultist and ceremonial magician. An early aspirant to the A∴A∴ (the 20th to be admitted as a Probationer, in December 1909) who "claimed" the grade of Magister Templi as a Neophyte. He was also an initiate of Ordo Templi Orientis, serving as the principal organizer for that order in British Columbia, Canada. He worked under a variety of mottos and acronymic titles, including V.I.O. (Unus in Omnibus, "One in All," as an A∴A∴ Probationer), O.I.V.V.I.O., V.I.O.O.I.V., Parzival (as an Adeptus Minor and O.T.O. Ninth Degree), and Tantalus Leucocephalus (as Tenth Degree O.T.O.), but he is best known under his Neophyte motto "Achad" (Hebrew: אחד, "unity"), which he used as a byline in his various published writings. Kenneth Grant, writing in The Magical Revival, claims that on Jones' return to Vancouver circa 1930, he was wearing only a raincoat, which he proceeded to throw off, and then circumambulated the center of the city as a magical operation of some sort, was arrested, and had a stay in a mental institution. This story, which Grant may have had directly from Crowley, is in all likelihood a confusion of the 1917 incident with the "insanity" of Jones' 1928 baptism and 1929 confirmation in the Roman Catholic Church.
Personal life
Jones' wife, whom he married in England prior to moving to the US and then Canada, was Prudence Rubina Stansfeld Jones née Wratton (1887–1981), often known as 'Ruby' or sometimes as 'Prue.' According to Crowley associate C. F. Russell, Jones met her in a brothel. Their adopted daughter was Deirdre Georgina Stansfeld Jones, known familiarly as Dede. (1912–1969). Like most members of Jones' British Columbia Lodge No 1 of the O.T.O., Ruby Jones advanced to the Third Degree (III0) in 1915. They raised an adopted son, and Ruby took in many foster children over the years. Since both Charles and Rubina had joined the Catholic Church in 1929, the children were raised Catholic. According to Tony Stansfeld Jones, the parents held Catholic masses in their Deep Cove, North Vancouver home for many years, later holding them in a local community hall. The novelist Malcolm Lowry who lived in the community of Maplewood Flats (now Maplewood Flats Conservation Area) north of Vancouver from 1938–1944 was a close friend of the family and C S Jones helped him with his manuscripts.
In 1950, C. S. Jones developed pneumonia after catching cold while waiting for a bus, and died within three days.[citation needed]
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Other sources
- Thelemapedia (2005). Charles Stansfeld Jones. Retrieved 25 October 2005.
Further reading
- Crowley, Aleister (1969). The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography]]. Jonathan Cape. ISBN 978-0-224-61334-7.
- Gilbert, R. A. (1997). Baphomet & Son: A Little Known Chapter in the Life of the Beast 666. Holmes Publishing Group. ISBN 978-1-55818-393-3.
- Grant, Kenneth (1994). Cults of the Shadow. Skoob. ISBN 978-1-871438-67-3.
- Grant, Kenneth (2010). The Magical Revival. United Kingdom: Starfire Publishing. ISBN 978-1-906073-03-9.
- (1991) "Prolegomenon", in Hymenaeus Beta: Liber Aleph vel CXI: The Book of Wisdom or Folly, 2nd, S. Weiser. ISBN 978-0-87728-729-2.
- Karr, Don (2013). Approaching the Kabbalah of Maat: Altered Trees and the Procession of the Aeons. York Beach, Maine: Black Jackal Press. ISBN 978-0-933429-33-8.
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