Lady Garrote
a darkened mix of fantasy, reality and spirituality
psychic contamination
Sometimes esoteric spaces and places become contaminated. This can happen no matter how much care and attention is taken. Well known temples have in the past become 'dirty' perhaps with psychic dust or for some other reason, or on occasion because of the behaviour of one or more of the temple users, causing waves and friction which has stuck in the atmosphere of the place.
One of the best examples of this was the shop in Godwin Street, Bradford which housed the Horus No. 5 Temple of the Golden Dawn in the attic. This temple is mentioned in a previous post. This post doesn't concern the temple, but the shop underneath. It is possible that the temple did become contaminated however in some way and certainly 'bad vibes' got in to the shop.
Back in the 1970's the shop was called 'Guy Watson's'. Guy Watson was quite a prominent local businessman and the shop was what is known to some as a 'Head Shop'. It sold unusual eastern mystic and esoteric ornaments, Indian clothes made of velvet and satin, Afghan coats, beautiful large silver rings and bracelets, cards, badges, strange artefacts and much more. The shop was situated on several floors and on a Saturday was absolutely packed with people as it was so popular at that time. One of the workers in the shop said that he kept hearing bells and smelling incense when there was no one there and he didn't like being left in the shop alone after closing time as he felt rather uneasy. This person is still quite well known on the alternative music scene today, so I won't name him here.
In the early 1980's Guy Watson branched out. He turned the shop in to a fantastic restaurant serving different menus on different floors, with a cafe in the basement. There was a Pizza Restaurant on the ground floor and the Garden Restaurant upstairs with a dance floor in the room above that. (The hidden temple was away from the public, used as a storage area right up in the attic.) There has never been a place quite like it, a train ran on a track round and round above diners’ heads and the place was made to look like the library of an old house. The Garden Restaurant was made to look like a patio scene with garden furniture and tables. Guy Watson had taken on another shop in the nearby precinct to sell his unusual wares from. He also had a sort of warehouse at Thackley near Bradford. The restaurant was packed out with customers, business boomed, then quite suddenly Guy Watson went bankrupt.
The restaurant changed hands, the temple rediscovered and plans were made to turn the place in to a club of sorts. Certain areas of the Temple Room were repainted. Then the new owners ran out of money and sold up. The restaurant became Laragosta keeping live lobsters in a tank. It seemed to do well but then the same thing happened again and again and again. The restaurant changed back in to a shop once more and has had a succession of tenants ever since, slowly getting more and more dilapidated in the process. Traces of the temple have apparently long since gone. However, is it just the passage of time that has seen so many businesses fail in that shop, or is it contamination from some of the rituals perhaps practised long ago in the attic temple and not properly cleared at the time. The energy fallout would appear to be of a negative nature.
