Frederick Hockley [SEP] date of death
Frederick Hockley
Frederick Hockley (1809 – November 10, 1885) was a British occultist and scryer who was a London-based Freemason and a member of the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia.
Career.
Hockley avidly collected and transcribed over many years a vast library of important occult books, works and texts, including a Rosicrucian manuscript belonging to Sigismund Bacstrom, who was initiated into an occult society in Mauritius in 1794. This text had a great influence on British occultism.
He established the spiritualist Croydon Circle in 1853
the copy was passed on to Frederick Hockley. At some later date, Hockley acquired the first half of Porter's original manuscript, and attempted to compile both Porter's and Palmer's versions into a single version.
Sloane MS 3824 (from the mid-seventeenth century) features a number of elements from the "Book of the Office of Spirits" and is an early form of the "Lemegeton". MS 3853 is titled "The Office of Spirits", starts off nearly identical to more complete Porter version.