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1943 · PDF PAGE 4

The Oriflamme, Vol. I, No. I

…ot sold, The desert a banquet hall set for a festival, ripe for the free and the bold; The wind and the sky are ours, heaven and all its stars, waken, and do what you will; Break with this demon spawn'd hell-inspired nightmare Bond—Magick lies over the hill." * * * They said I was crazy, ambiguous, lazy, disgusting, fantastic, obscene; So I hied for my sagebrush and cactus and corn mush, to see if the air was still clean. Oh, I height Don Quixote, I live on peyote, marihuana, morphine and cocaine, And may I be twice damned for a bank-clerk or s…

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1943 · PDF PAGE 6

The Oriflamme, Vol. I, No. I

… Great Ages man realized his relation to all nature and to the living universe about him. He felt his "oneness" with earth, air, sea and stars; and in his fullness of Life he worshipped the Sun as a visible symbol of the Supreme, the Author of all Life, Heat and Energy. In our frivolous ego- centric way of living we have lost much of this essential realization. But that we may once more move toward the Awareness of Life and Beauty, what more appropriate than that we celebrate the Sun in song and ritual? Therefore, four times daily we perform "T…

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1943 · PDF PAGE 5

The Oriflamme, Vol. I, No. I

… to make your pleasure as ye will, seeing that the diversity of being is infinite also. For this also is the Joy of the Law, that no two stars are alike, and ye must understand also that this Multiplicity is itself Unity, and without it Unity could not be. And this is an hard saying against Reason: Ye shall comprehend, when, rising above Reason, which is but a manipulation of the Mind, ye come to pure Knowledge by direct perception of the Truth. Know also that these four Emanations of the Law flame forth upon all paths: ye shall use them not on…

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