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KHABS AM PEKHT “There is a secret door that I shall make to establish thy way in all the quarters (there are the adorations, as thou hast written) as it is said: The Light is mine; its rays consume Me: I have made a secret door Into the House of Ra and Tum, Of Khephra, and of Ahathoor. Iam thy Theban, O Mentu, The prophet Ankh-f-na-khonsu! By Bes-na-Maut my breast I beat; By wise Ta-Nech I weave my spell. Show thy star-splendour, O Nuith! Bid me within thine House to dwell, O winged snake of light, Hadith! Abide with me, Ra-Hoor-Khuit!” In the …
1919 · PDF PAGE 214
… letters O.T.O. represent the words Ordo Templi Orientis (Order of the Temple of the Orient, or Oriental Templars), but they have also a secret meaning for initiates. 3. The Order is international, and has existing branches in every civilized country of the world. 4. The aims of the O.T.O. can only be understood fully by its highest initiates; but it may be said openly that it teaches Hermetic Science or Occult Knowledge, the Pure and Holy Magick of Light, the Secrets of Mystic attain- ment, Yoga of all forms, Gnana Yoga, Raja Yoga, Bhakta Yoga…
1919 · PDF PAGE 190
…nk and paper for ever” i.e. by some mechanical process, with possibly a sample of paper similar to that employed. “for in it is the word secret and not only in the English—” Compare CCXX. III. 47. 73. The secret is still a secret to Us. “And thy comment upon this the Book of the Law shall be printed beautifully in red ink and black upon beau- tiful paper made by hand;” i.e. explain the text ‘lest there be folly’ as it says above, CCXX. I. 36. “And to each man and woman that thou meetest, were it but to dine or to drink at them, it is the Law to…
1919 · PDF PAGE 279
…THEM. Tue PRIEST. Thou who art I, beyond all I am, Who hast no nature and no name, Who art, when all but thou are gone, Thou, centre and secret of the Sun, Thou, hidden spring of all things known And unknown, Thou aloof, alone, Thou, the true fire within the seed Brooding and breeding, source and seed Of life, love, liberty, and light, Thou beyond speech and beyond sight, Thee I invoke, my faint fresh fire Kindling as mine intents aspire. Thee I invoke, abiding one, Thee, centre and secret of the Sun, And that most holy mystery Of which the veh…
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…close alliance. It does not in any way infringe the just privileges of duly authorized Masonic Bodies. 2. The dispersion of the original secret wisdom having led to confusion, it was determined by the Chiefs of all these Orders to recombine and centralize their activities, even as white light, divided in a prism, may be recomposed. It embodies the whole of the secret knowledge of all Orien- tal Orders; and its chiefs are initiates of the highest rank, and recognized as such by all capable of such recognition in every country in the world. In mo…
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…) Note. The Priestess and other officers never partake of the Sacrament, they being as it were part of the PRIEST himself. Note. Certain secret Formulae of this Mass are taught to the PRIEST in his Ordination.
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…UINOX to manifest in any way whatever upon this plane. Or so it is said by the Masters of the Temple. Liser LXVI. Liser STELLA Ruse#&. A secret ritual, the Heart of IAO-OAI, delivered into V.V.V.V.V. for his use in a certain matter of Liber Legis, and written down under the figure LX VI. Lizer CLVI. Liser CHeTH VEL VALLuM ABIEGNI Sub Figura CLVI. This book is a perfect account of the task of the Exempt Adept, considered under the symbols of a particular plane, not the intellectual. Liser XLIV. Tue Mass or THE PHenix. A Ritual of the Law. Liper …
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…a, so that I melted the sixfold gold into a single invisible point, whereof naught may be spoken. 16. For the Magistry of this Opus is a secret magistry; and the sign of the master thereof is a certain ring of lapis- lazuli with the name of my master, who am I, and the Eye in the Midst thereof. 17. Also He spake and said: This is a secret sign, and thou shalt not disclose it unto the profane, nor unto the neo- phyte, nor unto the zelator, nor unto the practicus, nor unto the philosophus, nor unto the lesser adept, nor unto the greater adept. 18…
1919 · PDF PAGE 248
…his. I may add that members are bound together by participation in certain mysteries, which lead to a synthetic climax in which a single secret is communicated whose nature is such as to set at rest for ever all division on those fertile causes of quarrel, sex and religion. The possession of this secret gives the members entitled to it such calm of authority that the perfect respect which is their due never fails them. Thus, then, you see brethren dwelling together in unity; and you wonder whether the lust of possession may not cause division. …
1919 · PDF PAGE 188
…and none shall stand before you. Lurk! Withdraw! Upon them! This is the Law of the Battle of Conquest: thus shall my worship be about my secret house.” The last phrase sug- gests that the island may be Great Britain, with its Mines and Tanks; and it is notable that a certain brother obligated to A... A... is in the most secret of England’s War Councils at this hour. But it is possible that all this instruction refers to some later time when our Law, administered by some such Order as the O.T.O. which concerns itself with tem- poral affairs, is …
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…yer shall devour Thee; Thou shalt blacken his throat, wherein his spirit abideth. Ah, serpent Apep, but I love Thee! 26. My God! Let Thy secret fang pierce to the marrow of the little secret bone that I have kept against the Day of Vengeance of Hoor-Ra. Let Kheph-Ra sound his sharded drone! let the jackals of Day and Night howl in the wilder- ness of Time! let the Towers of the Universe totter, and the guardians hasten away! For my Lord hath revealed Him- self as a mighty serpent, and my heart is the blood of His body. 27. I am like a love-sick…
1919 · PDF PAGE 250
…high toward the low, of the rich toward the poor, of the great toward the small? You are a thousand times right; you have understood the secret of the O.T.O. That such qualities can flourish in an extended commu- nity may surprise so eminent and so profound a student of humanity as yourself; yet examples abound of practices the most unnatural and repugnant to mankind which have con- tinued through centuries. I need not remind you of Jaga- nath and of the priests of Attis, for extreme cases. A fortiori, then, it must be possible to train men to …
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…t- ness filleth the earth with praise. For the Lord filleth my mouth with silence; and the blessing of the Lord is my satisfaction. With secret song do I magnify the Lord; and His utterance is Light. 62
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THE EQUINOX THE SECRET SYMBOLS OF THE ROSICRUCIANS, reprint of Franz Hartmann. An invaluable compendium. ScruTINIuM CHyMicuM, by Michael Maier. One of the best treatises on alchemy. SCIENCE AND THE INFINITE, by Sidney Klein. One of the best essays written in recent years. Two Essays ON THE WorsHIP OF Priapus, by Richard Payne Knight. Invaluable to all students. THE GoLvEN Boucu, by J. G. Frazer. The Text-Book of Folk Lore. Invaluable to all students. Tue AcE oF Reason, by Thomas Paine. Excellent, though elementary, as a corrective to superstiti…
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… of the Order of Kadosch, and Companion of the Holy Graal. Grand Inquisitor Commander, Member of the Grand Tribunal. Prince of the Royal Secret. Very Illustrious Sovereign Grand Inspector General. Member of the Supreme Grand Council. Perfect Pontiff of the Illuminati. Initiate of the Sanctuary of the Gnosis. Rex Summus Sanctissimus (Supreme and Most Holy King). g. Every man or woman that is of full age, free, and of good report, has an indefeasible right to the III’. Beyond this, admission is only granted by invitation from the governing body c…
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…hat from the Law spring four Rays or Emanations: so that if the Law be the centre of your own being, they must needs fill you with their secret goodness. And these four are Light, Life, Love, and Liberty. Io1r
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…gree. All members of the Order, even of higher grades, are subject to the Grand Tribunal. “The next grade is that of Prince of the Royal Secret. Every member of this degree is devoted to the Propagation of the Law in a very special manner; for this grade is the first in which the Beginning of the Inmost Secret is declared openly. He will therefore, by his personal exertions, induce one hun- dred and eleven persons to join the Order, before he may proceed to the Seventh Degree, except hy special order from the Supreme and Holy King. “The Seventh…
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…ST takes the Paten between the index and medius of the right hand. The Priestess clasps the Cup in her right hand. THE PRIEST. Lord most secret, bless this spiritual food unto our bodies, bestowing upon us health and wealth and strength and joy and peace, and that fulfilment of will and of love under will that is perpetual happiness. He makes ¥ with Paten and kisses it. He uncovers the Cup, genuflects, rises. Music. He takes the Host, and breaks it over the Cup. He replaces the right-hand portion in the Paten. He breaks off a particle of the le…
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…hem that revolve about us without diminution of substance or effulgence for ever. THE PEopLe. So mote it be. (THE LORD) Tue Deacon. Lord secret and most holy, source of life, source of love, source of liberty, be thou ever constant and 259
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…ntary on the Book of the Law, in the form of a letter from the Master Therion to his magical son. This Book contains some of the deepest secrets of initiation, with a clear solution of many cosmic and ethical problems. Liper CCCXXXIII. THE Boox or Lizz, falsely so called: with an extended commentary by the Master Therion. This book contains some of the most valuable mystic epigrams ever written, and also some very important secret rituals. It is the official Text-Book of A.. A.. for “Babes of the Abyss.” Liser XV. THE Canon oF THE Mass, accordi…