Frank Salt was initiated into the S.T. Temple in 1936, and eventually rose to the Grade of Exempt Adept, 7=4. As well as performing the duties of Hierophant and Chief Adept, he was also briefly Cancellarius, and then Demonstrator (Praemonstrator) for many years.
After the closure of the S.T. in 1978, Fiat Lux contacted various senior members, including some of the ex Chiefs of the O., to obtain a comprehensive collection of O. papers with the view of establishing a successor Temple. This was achieved during the 1980’s, and he Initiated five people into the O. before he died, Good Friday 1994.
I took this photo a year or so after I met him, during the mid 1980’s. He was then in his early 70’s, and was spritely enough to leap over a farm fence to show me his favourite tree – where I then took the photo.
The last time I met him was the day before he died – he was then in hospital. When I came to meet him, he got himself dressed and hopped out of his hospital bed to greet me (much to the amazement of the nurses and doctors, or so i am told). We spent the day together wondering around the hospital grounds, before I had to leave. It was on this occasion that he told me that Mrs Felkin gathered the senior O. members to her beside before she died, and told them should would not be coming back to teach them – they were on their own. Frank repeated the same to me. That was the one and only time that Frank embraced me in a hug – he died the following day.
As a Scorpio, his tail could be barbed if one was being particularly stupid. He had other foibles, but embraced his failings as evidence of his human nature. I found him to be a passionate and sincere life-long student of the Mysteries, with a profound understanding of the G.D. system, and its application – something which today is still largely unknown and contrary to many of the theories put forward by modern “experts” on the O.
If I were to try and distill the essence of his G.D. teaching, it would be to focus on meditation, the O.’s various Ceremonies, and Hermetic silence.
R.I.P. Francis G. Salt.
Kasmillos
