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A Woman to Know: Pamela "Pixie" Colman Smith

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Julia Carpenter
Apr 03, 2017
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... what I see when I hear music-thoughts loosened and set free from the spell of sounds. — Pamela Colman Smith

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In 1901, Pamela left her home in Brooklyn, and her job illustrating surrealist books, to join an occult society in England: the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. There, she met Arthur Waite, the spiritual thinker …

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