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…ruments, in- struments which sound false in contact with a degraded soul. The wicked can feel nothing, because they can love nothing: in order to love one must be good. Consequently for them everything is empty, and it seems to them that Nature is im- potent, because they are so themselves ; they doubt everything because they know nothing; they blaspheme everything because they taste nothing; they caress in order to degrade; they drink in order to get drunk; they sleep in order to forget; they wake in order to endure mortal boredom: thus will l…
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…t Mystery. They represent but different degrees of initiation. By the Right Use of the “Key” alone the ‘“ Master Word ” can be found. In order to afford genuine seekers after Hermetic Truth some information on the aims of the Ancient Order of Oriental Templars, we now print the preliminary instruction issued by the Fratres of this Order. FIRST INSTRUCTION To all whom it may concern— Let it be known that there exists, unknown to the great crowd, a very ancient order of sages, whose object is the amelioration and spiritual elevation of mankind, b…
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I.N.R.I. BRITISH SECTION OF THE ORDER OF ORIENTAL TEMPLARS O.T.O. [The Premonstrator of the A... A... permits it to be known that there is not at present any necessary incom- patibility between the A..A.. and the O. T. O. and M..M..M.-, and allows membership of the same as a valuable preliminary training.] [This Order in no way conflicts with, or infringes the just privileges of, the United Grand Lodge of England.]
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…to truth, reality, reason and justice? A. A moral man. g. And if he sacrifices his interests to justice? a. A man of honour. g. Andif in order to imitate the grandeur and goodness of Providence he does more than his duty, and sacrifices his right to the good of others? a. A hero. What is the principle of true heroism ? Faith. What is its support? Hope. And its rule? Charity. What is the Good ? Order. What is the Evil? . Disorder. What is permissible pleasure? Enjoyment of order. What is forbidden pleasure? Enjoyment of disorder. Pope POPOPrPOPO…
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THE EQUINOX become a father in order that he may have more children to devour. To conquer love is to triumph over the whole of Nature. To submit it to justice is to rehabilitate life by devoting it to immortality; thus the greatest works of the Christian revelation are the creation of voluntary virginity and the sanctification of marriage. While love is nothing but a desire and an enjoyment, it is mortal. In order to make itself eternal it must become a sacrifice, for then it becomes a power and a virtue. It is the struggle of Eros and Anteros …
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…OF THE MYSTERIES Fartu being the aspiration to the unknown, the object of faith is absolutely and necessarily this one thing—Mystery. In order to formulate its aspirations, faith is forced to borrow aspirations and images from the known. But she specializes the employment of these forms, by placing them together in a manner which, in the known order of things, is impossible. Such is the profound reason of the apparent absurdity of symbolism. Let us give an example: If faith said that God was impersonal, one might conclude that God is only a wor…
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…ny nor affirm that He exists. God is the absolute object of human faith. In the infinite, He is the supreme and creative intelligence of order. In the world, He is the spirit of charity. Is the Universal Being a fatal machine which eternally grinds down intelligences by chance, or a _providential intelligence which directs forces in order to ameliorate minds? The first hypothesis is repugnant to reason; it is pessimistic and immoral. Science and reason ought then to accept the second. Yes, Proudhon, God is an hypothesis, but an hypothesis so ne…
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…o destroy even the least trace of its first form, and then boil it in the magic bath of Medea. Observe how modern hierophants proceed in order to accomplish human regeneration; how, for example, in the Catholic religion, they go to work in order to change a man more or less weak and passionate into a stoical missionary of the Society of Jesus. There is the great secret of that venerable and terrible Order, always misunderstood, often calumniated, and always sovereign. Read attentively the book entitled, The Exercises of St. Ignatius, and note w…
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…and attachment, your silence and good conduct, your father has already pledged his honour. “You are now, as a member of this illustrious order, introduced a subject of a new country, whose extent is boundless. . Pictures are opened to your view, wherein true patriotism is exemplified in glowing colours, and a series of transactions recorded, which the rude hand of Time can never erase. The obligations which influenced the first Brutus and Manlius to sacrifice their children to the love of their country are not more sacred than those which bind …
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…ypocritical and hidden accomplices? They follow us like sorrow, await us like the abyss, surround us like infatuation. We excuse them in order to excuse ourselves, defending them in order to defend ourselves, justifying them in order to justify ourselves, and we submit to them finally because we must, because we have not the strength to resist our inclinations, because we lack the will to do so. They have possessed themselves of our ascendant, as Paracelsus says, and where they wish to lead us we shall go. They are our bad angels. We know it in…
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ORDER OF ORIENTAL TEMPLARS MYSTERIA MYSTICA MAXIMA PREAMBLE Durinc the last twenty-five years, constantly increasing numbers of earnest people and seekers after truth have been turning their attention to the study of the hidden laws of Nature. The growth of interest in these matters has been simply marvellous. Numberless_ societies, associations, orders, groups, etc., etc, have been founded in all parts of the civilized world, all and each following some line of occult study. While all these newly organized associations do some good in preparin…
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…ad intention; for example, to know the secrets of others, or to arrive at unworthy ends. Q. What is the result of it ? A. It puts out of order the fluidic instrument of precision, both in the case of the magnetizer and of the magnetized. To this cause one must attribute the immoralities and the follies with which a great number of those who occupy themselves with magnetism are reproached. Q. What conditions are required in order to magnetize properly? A. Health of spirit and body; right intention, and discreet practice. Q. What advantageous res…
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ORDER OF ORIENTAL TEMPLARS conquering error, and aiding men and women in their efforts of attaining the power of recognizing the truth. This order has existed already in the most remote and prehistoric times; and it has manifested its activity secretly and openly in the world under different names and in various forms; it has caused social and political revolutions, and proved to be the rock of salvation in times of danger and misfortune. It has always upheld the banner of freedom against tyranny, in whatever shape this appeared, whether as cle…
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…a hangman, an extirminator armed by the justice of God Himself. God sent Voltaire between the century of Bossuet and that of Napoleon in order to destroy everything that separates those two geniuses and to unite them in one alone. He was the Samson of the spirit, always ready to shake the columns of the temple; but in order to make him turn in spite of himself the mill of religious progress, Providence made him blind of heart. 88
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THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES in order to lead astray the understanding, are as real as photographic images. One could not see what does not exist. The phantoms of dreams, and even the dreams of the waking, are then real images which exist in the light. There exist, besides these, contagious hallucinations. But we here affirm something more than ordinary hallucina- tions. If the images attracted by diseased brains are in some sense real, can they not throw them without themselves, as real as they receive them? These images projected by the complete …
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ORDER OF ORIENTAL TEMPLARS These few preliminary remarks may be sufficient for those who desire information concerning our order; to those who feel themselves capable to apply for admission, further instructions will be given. Address all communications to The Grand Secretary General, M..M.’.M.-., c/o THE Equinox, 33 Avenue Studios, 76 Fulham Road, South Kensington, S.W. THE FOLLOWING DISCOURSE (Translated from the original French) Was lately pronounced at Brunswick (Lower Saxony) where PRINCE .........-. ts GRAND MASTER of M., by COUNT T., at …
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IN MEMORIAM—JOHN YARKER in due order, Bro. W. Henry Quilliam, 33°, 90°, 96°, called the Convocation to order, and called upon Brother Crowley, 33°, 90°, 95°, to read the summons calling this Convocation. This was duly done, and a copy of such summons so there read is set out in extenso in the minutes hereinafter written. On the motion of Bro. W. Henry Quilliam, seconded by Bro. Aleister Crowley, 33°, 90°, 95°, the Very Illustrious Prince Patriarch Grand Conservator, 33°, 90°, 95°, Bro. Henry Meyer, of 25 Longton Grove, Sydenham, S.E., County of…
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…. To give oneself up to impure loves is to plight one’s troth to death. Liberty, which is the life of the soul, is only preserved in the order of Nature. Every voluntary disorder wounds it, prolonged excess murders it. Then, instead of being guided and preserved by reason, one is abandoned to the fatalities of the ebb and flow of magnetic light. The magnetic light devours ceaselessly, because it is always creating, and because, in order to produce continually, one must absorb eternally. Thence come homicidal manias and temptations to commit sui…
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THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES He gave His flesh to the executioners, His blood to the earth which drank it. Why? In order that all may partake of the bread of intelligence, and of the wine of love. O sign of the union of men! O Round Table of universal chivalry! O banquet of fraternity and equality! When will you be better understood? Martyrs of humanity, all ye who have given your life in order that all should have the bread which nourishes and the wine which fortifies, do ye not also say, placing your hands on the signs of the universal communion:…
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…gnature of a specialized instinct. Now, instincts are balanced by contrary instincts, and dominated by instincts stronger than those. In order to dominate sheep, the dog plays upon their fear of wolves. If you are a dog, and you want a pretty little cat to love you, you have only one means to take: to metamorphose yourself into a cat. But how? By observation, imitation and imagination. We think that our figurative language will be understood for once, and we recommend this revelation to all who wish to magnetize : it is the deepest of all the s…