Melanie Marquis - Carl Llewellyn Weschcke: Pioneer & Publisher of Body, Mind & Spirit

Llewellyn Publications

Woodbury, Minnesota

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Carl Llewellyn Weschcke: Pioneer and Publisher of Body, Mind & Spirit 2018 by Melanie Marquis.

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First e-book edition 2018

E-book ISBN: 9780738758671

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Photo Credits

Window display for drugstore advertising Adlerika, a product manufactured in St. Paul. Circa 1930. Credit: Minnesota Historical Society.

NAACP members picketing outside Woolworths for integrated lunch counters, St. Paul. 4/2/1960. Photographer: St. Paul Dispatch-Pioneer Press. Credit: Minnesota Historical Society.

Spread from American Cinematographer magazine, December 1973 issue, pp. 1570-1, Filming Isis Among the Witches. Used with permission.

Photograph of Carl in front of Summit Avenue mansion from Twin Citian magazine, December 1966 issue, p. 102, 476 Summit Avenue. Used with permission.

Carl Weschckes senior portrait and accompanying artwork from St. Paul Academy and Summit School yearbook, Saint Paul Academy Review (SPAR), 1948. Used with permission.

Every effort has been made on the part of the publisher to identify photographers and subjects, but due to the age and frequent lack of written documentation, this was not always possible.

Acknowledgments

The creation of this book would not have been possible without the combined help and efforts of the many people who contributed time, energy, and love toward this project. I would like to thank everyone who has contributed to this book by sharing memories and information that I would not have been able to include otherwise.

My biggest thanks go to Sandra Weschcke and Gabe Weschcke, for without your welcome and your willingness, this book could never have been. Researching for this book was a once in a lifetime opportunity for which I will be forever grateful.

I wish also to express my deepest gratitude to my editor extraordinaire Elysia Gallo, for help with this project that has gone far above and beyond the ordinary call of duty.

A special thanks also to Jean-Louis de Biasi for your information on the Ordo Aurum Solis, to Michael Night Sky for your encouragement and contributions, to Guy V. Frost for sharing your research on Llewellyn George and Ida H. Fletcher, and to Stephen Brewster of Manchester for sharing your and Carls correspondences and for your help in piecing together a little more of the magickal mysteries that were Carls life.

I am also grateful for my family and friends, who continue to love me even when Im writing constantly.

And I am also grateful for you, for picking up this book and choosing to share in the secret of how Carl Llewellyn Weschcke became so much more.

Contents

: The Magic of Carl by Bill Krause

: Early Life and Family Ties

: Carl the Collegiate

: Finding His Way

: A Champion for Civil Rights

: 1960s

: Life in a Haunted House

: 1970s

: Gnostica Bookstore

: Gnosticon Festivals

: Carl the Astrologer

: A Love to Last a Lifetime

: 1980s

: 1990s

: Llewellyn in the New Millennium

: Carl Never Retires

by Sandra K. Weschcke

: Carls Natal Chart Analysis by Rose Wright

Photos

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Foreword

The Magic of Carl

T he Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul is a surprisingly large hub for publishing. Having been in this business since the early 1980s, I knew about Llewellyn Worldwide; however, I knew very little about Carl Weschcke.

Carl was looking to transition away from some of his daily responsibilities and free up time to write. I would find out later this was his real passion. We hit it off pretty well when I joined the company in late autumn of 2005. At that time Carl was still coming into the office every dayin a suit, I might addand we met regularly to talk about subjects, authors, book projects, and more. I quickly learned that Carl was the living persona of everything that Llewellyn did. He knew about every subject the company published, and not just a little bit. Carl was well-versed in everything from the rune alphabet to the Golden Dawn and Wicca to all forms of divination. The subject he loved the most was astrology, and he talked about that more than any other. I learned over time that he had corresponded with Gerald Gardner and considered Israel Regardie a personal friend. Its safe to say that Carl had probably forgotten more about these subjects than most of us will ever learn.