 By that time there existed some half-dozen offshoots from the original Golden Dawn, and as a whole it never recovered.Aleister Crowley, Waite's foe, referred to him as the villainous "Arthwate" in his novel "Moonchild" and referred to him as "Dead Waite" in his magazine "Equinox".Lovecraft has a villainous wizard in his short story "The Thing on the Doorstep" called Ephraim Waite; according to Robert M. Price, this character was based on Waite.