Madeline Montalban
Madeline Montalban was an English astrologer and ceremonial magician. She co-founded the Order of the Morning Star, through which she propagated her own form of Luciferianism. She died of lung cancer in 1982, having refused to publish her ideas in books.
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Madeline Montalban was an English astrologer and ceremonial magician. She co-founded the Order of the Morning Star, through which she propagated her own form of Luciferianism. Born in Blackpool, she moved to London in the early 1930s, immersing herself in the city’s esoteric subculture. She associated with significant occultists, including Thelemites like Aleister Crowley and Kenneth Grant, and Wiccans like Gerald Gardner and Alex Sanders. She died of lung cancer in 1982, having refused to publish her ideas in books. Her life and work was mentioned in various occult texts and historical studies of esotericism during subsequent decades. A short biography by Julia Philips was published by the Atlantis Bookshop in 2012. She was particularly interested in astrology, and wrote her first article on the subject for the magazine London Life in 1933. She also read the Bible in her youth, becoming particularly enamored with the texts of the Old Testament, and was convinced that they contained secret messages. According to one account, her father sent her to study with the famed occultist and mysticAleister Crowley, who had founded the religion of Thelema in 1904. This story remains implausible, and has never been corroborated. Another of her accounts held that she move to the capital to work for the Daily Express newspaper; this claim has never be corroborated, and one of the paper’s reporters at the time, Justine Glass, has claimed that she never remembered Montal Ban working there.
She had a strained relationship with her parents, although she appears to have had a troubled relationship with them. In early life, Madeline was afflicted with polio, resulting in a lifelong withered leg and limp. Her father, Willie Royals, was an insurance agent, while her mother, Marion Neruda Shaw, was a tailor’s daughter from Oldham. Willie and Marion had married on 28 June 1909, followed by Madeline’s birth seven months later. They had a son, Willie, who was born in 1913, and a daughter, Marion, who died in 1999, at the age of 46. She is buried in St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, with her husband, William, and son-in-law, Peter, who is also buried in the same cemetery. She has no children, and is survived by her husband and two daughters, both of whom are now in their 70s and 80s. In 1952 she met Nicholas Heron, with whom she entered into a relationship. After her relationship with Heron ended in 1964, she returned to London, continuing to propagate the OMS. She settled in the St. Giles district, where she became known to the press as “The Witch of St. Giles”. She wrote several booklets on astrology using a variety of different pseudonyms, including Dolores North and Nina del Luna. Her work continued to see publication until 1953, which was the publication that saw her see that magazine, London Life, until her death.
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