The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

THE EQUINOX before a writ was served! Though he might have guessed that it would be. But he couldn’t possibly have known that the action would be dropped, as it has been. And Mathers has run away too—without paying our costs. * * * * * A word as to the sanctity of obligations seems necessary here. Some of my brother Masons (for example) have heard imperfectly and judged hastily. But if we apply our tools to our morals with patience and skill, we shall cure any defects in the building. Let me explain the situation carefully and clearly. (1) Mathers and Dr. Wynn Westcott were the apparent heads of the Order calling itself Rosicrucian. (2) This Order seriously claimed direct descent, and trans- mitted Authority, from the original Fratres R.C. (3) It was founded on secret documents in the custody of Dr. Wynn Westcott, on whose honour and integrity we relied. (4) Mathers and Westcott claimed to be working under one or more secret chiefs of the grade of 8°= 3°. (5) It was then to those chiefs that I and other members of the Order were pledged. (6) When the “rebellion” took place in 1900, I thought Mathers a wolf, and Westcott a sheep; but, recog- nizing Truth in the knowledge issued by the Order, maintained my allegiance to the Secret Chiefs 8°= 3°. (7) In 1904 I was ordered directly and definitely by a person who proved himself to be the messenger of a