Madeline Montalban

Madeline Montalban was an English astrologer and ceremonial magician. She cofounded the esoteric organisation known as the Order of the Morning Star , through which she propagated her own form of Luciferianism.

Madeline Sylvia Royals was born onJanuary 1910 in Blackpool, Lancashire. Little is known of her early life, which coincided with Britains involvement in the First World War, although she appears to have had a strained relationship with her parents. Her father, Willie Royals, was an insurance agent, while her mother, Marion Neruda Shaw, was a tailors daughter from Oldham. Willie and Marion had married onJune 1909, followed by Madelines birth seven months later. In early life, Madeline was afflicted with polio, resulting in a lifelong withered leg and limp. Bedridden for the course of the illness, she read literature to entertain herself, enjoying the works of Edward BulwerLytton, H.160Rider Haggard and E.160T.160A. Hoffman. 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, a theme that became a central tenet of her later Luciferian beliefs.

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