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ALEISTER CROWLEY ABSINTHE THE GREEN GODDESS

of appalling solemnity, an alliance of two souls against the world and against fate, with invocation of the great blessing of the most high. death is not the most beautiful of adventures, as frohman said, for death is unavoidable; marriage is a voluntary heroism. that marriage has today become a matter of convenience is the last word of the commercial spirit. it is as if one should take a vow of knighthood to combat dragons--until the dragons appeared. so this poor woman, because she did not understand that respectability is a lie, that it is love that makes marriage sacred and not the sanction of church or state, because she took marriage as an asylum instead of as a crusade, has failed in life, and now seeks alcohol under the same fatal error. wine is the ripe gladness which accompanies

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

spendthrift gesture on the counter of the merchant of madness. on the steel of your helmet let there be gold inlaid with the motto "excess" the above indications are taken from a subsequent passage of the third chapter of this book. the supreme and absolute injunction, the crux of your knightly oath, is that you lay your lance in rest to the glory of your lady, the queen of the stars, nuit. your knighthood depends upon your refusal to fight in any lesser cause. that is what distinguishes you from the brigand and the bully. you give your life on her altar. you make yourself worthy of her by your readiness to fight at any time, in any place, with any weapon, and at any odds. for her, from whom you come, of whom you are, to whom you go, your life is no more and no less than one continuous sa

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 4 3

ill hangs the mist, and still before yawns the immeasurable wild. twelve days: the end. afar he spies the mountains stooping to the plain; a little splash of sunlight lies beyond the everlasting rain. 15 his strength is done; he cannot stir. the child complains- how feebly now! his eyes are blank; he looks at her; the cold sweat gathers on his brow. to save the world- three days away! his life in knighthood's life is furled, and knighthood's life in his- to-day- his darling staked against the world! will he die there, his task undone? or dare he live, at such a cost? he cries against the impassive sun: the world is dim, is all but lost. when, with the bitterness of death cutting his soul, his fingers clench the piteous passage of her breath. the dews of horror rise and drench sir palamede

ARTHUR E WAITE TEMPLAR ORDERS IN FREEMASONRY

according to the mind of the hypothesis, was the chivalry of st. john. ramsay appears to have left the masonic arena, and he died in the early part of 1743, but his discourse produced a profound impression on french freemasonry. he offered no evidence, but france undertook to produce it after its own manner and conformably to the spirit of the time by the creation of rites and degrees of masonic knighthood, no trace of which is to be found prior of ramsay. their prototypes of course were extant, the knights of malta, knights of the holy sepulchre, knights of st. lazarus, in the gift of the papal see, and the order of christ in portugal, in the gift of the portuguese crown. there is no need to say that these religious and military orders have nothing in common with the operative masonry of

d back; and that its chief centre in the thirteenth century was kilwinning in scotland. but the french or otherwise german masonic mind went to work upon this thesis, and in presenting the craft with the credentials of knightly connections it substituted the order of the temple for the chivalry chosen by ramsay. the battle of lepanto and the siege of vienna had invested the annals of the st. john knighthood with a great light of valour; but this was as little and next to nothing in comparison with the talismanic attraction which for some reason attached to the templar name and was obviously thrice magnified when the proposition arose that the great chivalry had continued to exist in secret from the days of philippe le bel even to the second half of the eighteenth century. there were other

ut who looked seriously for light to the east and for its imagined traditional wisdom handed down from past ages. they may have been dreamers also, but they were less or more zealous students after their own manner; within their proper measures, and the templar chivalry drew them because they deemed it not unlikely that its condemnation by the paramount orthodoxy connoted a suspicion that the old knighthood had learned in palestine more than the west could teach. out of such elements were begotten some at least of the templar rites and they grew from more to more, till this particular aspect culminated in the templar dramas of werner, in which an order concealed through the ages and perpetuated through saintly custodians reveals to a chosen few among knights templar some part of its secret

do battle with the enemies of the holy christian religion and his heart for the sacrifice of his entire being to jesus christ. the alleged correspondences and meanings are developed at some length, but it will be sufficient to mention that the masonic candidate enters the lodge poor and penniless, because that was the condition at their beginning of the templars and the other orders of christian knighthood. the candidate is prepared for the second craft degree in a somewhat different manner from that of the first, and this has reference to certain distinctions between the clothing of a knight of the holy sepulchre and that of a knight of st. john. the seven steps are emblematic of the seven sacraments of the holy church, by the help of which the christian chivalries maintained their faith

BLUE EQUINOX

ven maeterlinck s wishy-washy twaddle seem virile. i have never read such slop. the illustrations match it. the whole production of young india is babu in the anglo-indian sense of the word. the spirit of india is utterly absent. drawings and writing alike resemble the senseless flourishes of some callow student. and all this while the babu, while accepting what he imagines to be honours, such as knighthood, from england, is plotting sneakishly in the bengali manner against her. i would to god that the british would withdraw from india for six months, so that the men of india might exterminate these fatherless fish-eaters, this spawn of female dogs that, without caste even in its own slime of bastardy, asserts itself in america as a .young nation. kwaw li ya. the dance of shiva. by dr. ana

DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

(harper, new york, 1950) 22 wall street and the bolshevik revolution, p78 23 carroll quigley, tragedy and hope (macmillan, new york, 1966) p938. this book so angered the manipulators that it was withdrawn from the shelves. only the pirated edition is available today. 24 wall street and the bolshevik revolution, p46 82 .and the truth shall set you free 25 the world order, our secret rulers, p37. a knighthood cost 10,000 to 12,000, of which 5,000 went to lloyd george, according to author eustace mullins 26 donald mccormick, the mask of merlin (macdonald, london, 1963) p208. mccormick also claims that british intelligence discovered documents which proved that government officials were secret agents of zaharoff- with the knowledge of lloyd george! 27 dr kitty little "subversive infiltrators i

and during the conflict. see extra-terrestrial friends and foes, by george c. andrews. 17 a century of war, pl50 18 a century of war, pl80-181 the debt scam 251 19 henry a. kissinger, reflections on a partnership: british and american attitudes to postwar foreign policy (royal institute of international affairs, chatham house, london, may 10th 1982. in june 1995 kissinger was given an 'honourary knighthood' by the queen for "services to anglo-american relations! he became an honourary knight commander in the most distinguished order of st michael and st george (kcmg) in a ceremony at windsor castle. the honour was bestowed on the recommendation of the foreign secretary, douglas hurd (london daily telegraph, june 14th 1995. 20 a century of war, p206 21 rodney stich, defrauding america, a p

d, mr major, and the pro-europe chancellor, kenneth clarke (bil) knows that. so does tony blair (bil, an elite "chosen one" and paddy ashdown (bil. mr hurd was one of those who stood in the conservative leadership election after margaret thatcher was removed, on the orders of the bilderberg group, for her opposition to political and monetary union. mr hurd, who recommended henry kissinger for his knighthood, was well schooled in european affairs. he was private secretary to ted heath (1968-70) when heath was leader of the opposition, and was then appointed his political secretary (1970-74) after heath became prime the one party states 345 minister. hurd was also a minister of state at the foreign office under lord carrington in the run up to the falklands war. one of the people who helped

, an 'advisor' to the serb leader radovan karadzic, has been sir alfred sherman who has operated from an apartment in pale near sarajevo, next door to karadzic's office, according to published research. sherman is known as the "inventor of margaret thatcher" and he was at the forefront of the manoeuvring that led to her election as leader of the british conservative party. she later awarded him a knighthood and together they founded the "think tank, the centre for policy studies66 from where the economic madness of the 1980s partly originated. the serbs were funded by the elite via belgrade banks involved in massive drug money laundering. it is also amazing how many 'foundations' were set up in the former yugoslavia by the financial speculator and rothschild frontman, george soros (bil. he

DAVID ICKE THE BIGGEST SECRET

ateau is because arcadia in sparta was the legendary home of zeus andthe titans- the reptilian bloodlines of troy. that is the origin of these bloodlines, notjesus, who did not even exist. pierre plantard, who knows the truth, but doesnt wantyou to know, was born in 1920 and, with the approval of the german oppressors, heedited a magazine in nazi-occupied france in 1942 called conquest for a youngknighthood.17 it was the journal of a paris based masonic-chivalric society called the149order alpha-galates, and plantard became its grand master at the age of 22.18 this iscertainly not a man whos word is his bond.at st sulpice in paris, the village priest abbe berenger sauniere met with abbebieil, the director general of the seminary, and the latters nephew, emile hoffet.19through hoffet he was

uses of parliament in london youfind st jamess square and here is the headquarters of the conservative party; thebiggest british trade union, the transport union; a building owned by the scottishreptilian bloodline, the keswicks (of which more later; and in the centre is a massiveround church dedicated to st john (nimrod).one of his first acts as king james i of england and scotland was to award aknighthood to bacon, and james would later appoint him solicitor-general, attorney-general, lord keeper of the great seal and, in 1618, lord chancellor and baronv erulam. later bacon was prosecuted on corruption charges and retired from officialpublic life. in those early years under james i, there was a wonderful opportunity tocirculate the suppressed knowledge of the ancient world if that was re

treaty in february 1992 which turned the european community into theeuropean union, the superstate. hurd was a private secretary to ted heath between1968 and 1970 and his political secretary from 1970 to 1974 when heath was primeminister and signing britain into europe. hurd was also minister of state to lordcarrington in the run up to the falklands war and it was hurd who recommended anhonorary knighthood for henry kissinger. since that time influential and apparentlyopposing political figures like the conservatives ted heath (bil, tc, kenneth clarke(bil, geoffrey (lord) howe (bil, comm 300, the labour partys tony blair (bil),gordon brown (bil, tc, and the liberal democrat leaders, david steel (bil, tc) andpaddy ashdown (bil, have pressed and argued for further and further erosion of bri

gate. brice claimed tohave been forced to have sex with john f kennedy when she was or[ly 12, although shesaid: i was made up to look 16. bob hope is also named by springmeier and wheelerin their book as a slave handler and as a british intelligence operative during thesecond world war as he toured the world hosting concerts for the troops.60 hope andmedia mogul, rupert murdoch, were both awarded knighthoods by the romancatholic church in los angeles, california. they became knights of the order of stgregory and while i was writing this book hope was given an honorary knighthood bythe queen to elevate him to the same rank as bush, kissinger, and the other chosen fewthe windsors reward for services to the cause. bob isnt he a hoot hope has beenused to draw many top names in hollywood into t

ties and appoints the leading governmentofficials. the black nobility networks do the same in other countries, including, no,especially, in the united states. see .and the truth shall set you free for details of this.the windsor friendsyou can tell a lot about the attitudes and motivations of people by the company theychoose to keep and those they choose to honour. it is rare for the queen to giveknighthoods to people outside the commonwealth and those she has chosen for suchhonorary knighthoods read like a business meeting of brotherhood operatives. thetitles are dubbed honorary because the american constitution forbids the acceptance oftitles from the monarch of a foreign state without the permission of congress. so few ofthese honours are given because, as a british government official

: amember of the banking family behind kleinwort benson; king juan carlos ofspain: black nobility and founder and president of honour of wwf-spain; princehenrik: president of wwf-denmark; dr luc hoffman: vice-president of wwfinternational and director of the swiss pharmaceutical company hoffman-laroche;john h. loudon: chairman of shell oil until 1976 and chief executive of royaldutch shell. given knighthoods by both the british and dutch royal families andbernhards successor in 1977 as international president of wwe47yes, sounds like a bunch of conservationists, doesnt it? martin palmer, an advisor tophilip on environmental matters, said the wwf was a missionary organisation 48 it is,too. the first wave of missionaries began the destruction of africa and south andcentral america, and now t

DICTIONARY GLOSSARY OF OCCULT TERMINOLOGY

e greek "adelphos" and "adelphas" meaning "brother" and "sister. a term that is in the neuter sex to indicate roughly "sibling" in the order of the astral star [o.a.s (q.v, an adelphon is the title of the first degree of membership, and correlates to the fire of earth in the sephiroth of malkuth (i.e. the russet colored quarter of malkuth. the primary principle of this grade is based on christian knighthood. adeptus minor: a term used to describe a learned and skilled magician. in the hermetic order of the golden dawn [g.d (q.v) the student of the order was first taught ritual magick once they entered into this degree, which was the first degree of the inner order, the roseae rubeae et aureae crucis [r.r. et a.c (q.v. aeon of horus: the age of oneness between human beings and god that foll

by the o.t.o. order of the astral star, the [o.a.s: the order of the astral star, inc. founded in 1980 in the commonwealth of kentucky, usa, by a group of ten teenagers including ghfr. pneuma asteros, ghsr. alethia asteros, and ghfr. skarff tou asterou and seven other members upon the principles of christian mysticism and ceremonial magick. the first degree is founded upon the ideals of christian knighthood, and the magickal secrets of the christian eucharist. the order practices golden dawn [g.d (q.v) style ceremonial/ritual magick. the symbol of the order is an eight rayed star on it's point, inscribed with the glyphs of the signs of the zodiac, the planets, the numbers, and colors. a gold, silver, and red crux mystica is in the center, and the star itself is surmounted by a crux mystica

FAUST

estle fondly at her knees, importunate, yet tame. he grows more daring. but swiftly upward floats a vapour pale and covers with its closely woven veil a scene most lovely and beyond comparing. mephistopheles how many tales you can relate! small as you are, in fancies you are great. i can see naught- homunculus of course. you from the north, in ages dark and drear brought forth, in all the murk of knighthood and of papistry, how could your vision, then, be clear and free? only in gloom are you at home. looking around. bemouldered stone-work, dingy, horrid, with pointed arches low and florid! if this man wakes, there ll be new things to dread; at once upon the spot he will lie dead. prophetic dreams of wood and springs beguile him, of swans and naked beauties. here, in such a place, how coul

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

rtant.thefirst of these, the early grand scottish, rite, was also .something of a means to an end. as a resultofcorrespondingwithedouard blitz, waite had cometoseethe regime ecossaisetrectifieas maintaining more than anyotherrite the essenceofthesecret tradition;itwas,he believed,'thehead andcrownofmasonry, while its gradeofchevalierbienjaisantdela cite saintewas a 'great and holy gradeofchristianknighthoodspiritualized',butto attain it he.mustfirst be installed as aknighttemplar (which was dulydoneon 8 may 1902 inkingedward vii preceptory, no. 173),andhefeltthatitwouldalso be advisable to receivetheearly grandriteof47260; for, as he noted in his diary,'obscureornot,47260 means at least 44<rituals whichcannot failofmaterial for my paper against the timewheni shall unsay all that has tillno

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

s wroth with the mother of the lad: i shape for him, that he have neither son nor 1 we still say: born in happy hour. ohg. mit heilu er giboran ward, 0. sal. 44. freq. in the 0. span. cid: el que en buen ora nascio, el que en buen punto nascio. from this notion of a good hour of beginning (a la bonne heure) has sprung the fr. word bonheur (masc) for good hap in general. similarly, about receiving knighthood, the 0. span, has el que en buen ora cinxo espada. 2 that is, grani, siftgrani, the bearded, a by-name of osinn (p. 147. destiny. 859 daughter, but be the last of his race. osinn said: i shape him, that he live three men s lifetimes (conf. saxo gram. p. 103. thorr: in each lifetime he shall do a nrsings-verk/ oftinn: i shape him, that he have the best of weapons and raiment. thorr: he s

H SPENCER LEWIS ROSICRUCIAN MANUAL AMORC 1990

master. since that time many high honors were conferred upon him by foreign and american societies, academies, scientific institutions, and learned bodies. as an american citizen he had been cited for honored decoration with the cross of honor and made a knight of the flag by the united states flag association. in europe he received a number of similar decorations, including the gold cross of the knighthoods of the temple of jerusalem. he was a member or officer of a number of european and american educational societies, and had been received into the highest degrees of fourteen or more of the leading esoteric, mystical, and philosophical societies of the world, including the rose-croix kabalistique de france, the martinist order of france, belgium and switzerland, the rose-croix alchemica

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

beliefs of the rosicrucians meaning of lights and of commemorative flambeaux in all worsihp. 186 chapter the twenty-fourth. the great pyramid. 199 chapter the twenty-fifth. history of the tower or steeple. 206 chapter the twenty-sixth. presence of the rosicrucians in heathen and christian architecture. 228 chapter the twenty-seventh. the rosicrucians amidst ancient mysteries and in the orders of knighthood. 237 chapter the twenty-eighth. rosicrucianism in strange symbols. 253 chapter the twenty-ninth. connection between the templars and gnosticism. 266 chapter the thirtieth. rosicrucian origin of the order of the garter. 282 chapter the thirty-first. rosicrucian supposed means of magic through signs, sigils, and figures. 295 chapter the thirty-second. astro-theosophical system of the rosi

its mystic accompaniments (no. 14, grand central saloon, he will perceive the scarab uis, or crab, playing a peculiar part in the particulars of the grand rite so strangely typified, and also so remotely. the motto placed under the lilies, which are the arms of france, runs as follows: lilia non laborant, neque nent. this is also (as all know) the legend, or motto, accompanying the royal order of knighthood denominated that of the saint-esprit, in france. we are immediately now recalled to those exceedingly obscure, but very significant, words of our saviour, which have always seemed very erroneously interpreted, on account of their obvious contradictions: consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin* now, in regard to this part of the text, what doe

nted by the people for this special sensitive capacity. this idea king arthur s round table. 103 would greatly increase the majesty and the wonder of them; in other respects, except for some extraordinary and superstitious use, these mysterious, solitary stones appear objectless. the famous round table of king arthur in regard to which that mystic hero is understood to have instituted an order of knighthood* may have been a magical consulting- disc, round which he and his peers sat for oracular directions. as it is of large dimensions, it presents a similarity not only to some of the prophesying-stones, but also, in a greater degree, to the movable enchanted drums of the lapps and finns, and to the divining-tables of the shamans of siberia. there lies an unsuspected purpose, doubtless of a

e bohemians, zingari, gitanos, or gipsies; the teaching of the talmud; the hints of the cabala: also that little-supposed thing, even, meant in the british golden collar of s.s, which is worn as a relic of the oldest day (in perpetuation of a mythos long ago buried-spark-like-and forgotten in the dust of ages) by some of our officials, courtly and otherwise, and which belongs to no known order of knighthood, but only to the very highest order of knighthood, the magian, or to magic; all these point, as in the diverging radii of the greatest of historical light-suns, to the central, intolerable ring of brilliancy, or the phenomenon the original god s revelation, eldest of all creeds, survivor, almost, of time of the sacred spirit, or ghostly flame, the baptism of fire of the apostles! magic

re successfully displayed than in their hieroglyphs and pictured formula. even in the blazonry and in the collars and badges of chivalry (which seems so remote from them, we find these ophite hints. the heathen temples and the modern ritualistic churches alike abound in unconscious 202 the rosicrucians. gnostic emblems. state ceremony harbours them; they mix with the insignia of all the orders of knighthood; and they show in all the heraldic and masonic marks, figures, and patterns, both of ancient and of modern times. the religion of the rosicrucians is also concealed, and unconsciously carried forward, perpetuated, and ignorantly fostered, by the very persons and classes who form, contrive, and wear decorations with special mysterious marks, all the world over. every person, in unconscio

supposed to have been built with perfect fig. 166. egyptian alto-relievo (british museum) fig. 167. hook of saturn, crook of bishops. art. we have translated these phantom olian melodies played in the winds (so to express it, and fixed them in modern musical notation. templar banner. chapter the twenty-seventh. the rosicrucians amidst ancient mysteries. their traces discoverable in the orders of knighthood. he collar of esses is supposed always to be a part of the order of the garder. the coupled s.s. means the sanctus spiritus, or holy spirit, or the third person. the fleurs-de- lis, or lisses, or the lilies of the field, invariably appear in close connection with st. john, or the sanctus fig. 168. collar of esses. spiritus, and also with the blessed virgin mary, in all christian symbola

n-soilel (the rose of the order of the garter, is the rosicrucian the rose crucified. 261 red rose, crucified, with its rays of glory, or golden sunbeams, or mythical thorns, issuant from its white, immaculate centre-point, or lily-point all which have further occult meanings lying hidden in theurgic mysticism. all these are spoken in the famous round table of the prince (and origin) of christian knighthood, king arthur. his table is now hanging on the wall, dusty and neglected, over the king's seat or bench in the court- house on the castle hill of our ancient winchester. but upon this abstruse subject of the round table we have spoken more fully in another place. see elias ashmole. pope john xiv, about the year 970, issued a bull for the baptising of bells to cleanse the air of devils; w

o take in this respect? 286 the rosicrucians. these are matters, however, which properly appertain to the office, and lie in the hands of the dignitaries of the order of the garter. these officials are its* prelate and garter himself (the personified order, who are supposed, because of the sublime duties with which they are charged, to be the guardians of the meanings and the myths of an order of knighthood whose heraldic display in one form or other, covers the land (or covers the world) and must be interpreted either as talisman or toy. in these days without faith, wherein science (as it is called in the too arbitrary and overriding sense) has extinguished the lights of enthusiasm, leaving even our altars dark, desecrated, and cold, and has eliminated ail possible wonder from the earth

in the castle, and therein placed a table( round table) of 200 feet diameter, giving to the building itself the name of the round table. he appropriated 100 per week an enormous sum in those days for the maintenance of this table. in imitation of this, the french king, philip de valois, instituted a round table for himself at his court. some say that he had an intention of instituting an order of knighthood upon the same feminine subject, but that he was anticipated by king edward; which shows that it was something more than an accident and a mere garter which inspired the idea of this rose forming the mystery. the knights were denominated equites aurese periscelidis. king edward the third had such veneration for the blessed virgin mary, that he ordained that the habit of his knights of th

ot perceive the reason when the spectators avoided lifting the article, being aware to whom it belonged; but who raised it himself, and called aloud, not the words of the motto of the garter, which the historian says that the queen herself spoke, but giving an intimation that he would, spite of their laughter, make the proudest of the refusers wear the rejected cincture as the grandest badge that knighthood ever bore. rightly viewed, this little evaded incident which we desire to restore to its proper place of due respect in the knowledge of englishmen is the most conclusive proof of king edward s nobleness and greatness of heart, and of his chivalrous, inexpressibly gallant delicacy; an instance admirable to all future generations, and worthy of the most enduring applause. the reader fina

hich have con294 the rosicrucians. verged the noblest ideas and the most illustrious individuals in the world. it is still the proudest and most solemn badge, and the chiefest english knightly dignity. strangely enough, too, this whole history of the garter teaches, as its moral, the greatness of the proper independence of shame, and the holiness of its unconsciousness. also the gallantry and the knighthood of the holding sacred these strange natural things. badge of the sultan of turkey (the crescent and star. the star is the star of the magi, indicating the birth of christ, or the hero, or the prophet-leader. the star is the referring signal in the embrace and issuant out of the crescent, or sickle of the new moon) sigma from the roman catacombs. chapter the thirty-first. rosicrucian sup

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

ove the wine. the mysteries of the holy grail were simultaneously celebrated in various centres, both in great britain and on the continent, where they doubtless became mingled with other lines of tradition; and in them we find clear traces of one of those secret schools in which the flame of the hidden wisdom burnt bright during the early middle ages. the tradition of the grail and its spiritual knighthood passed into literature through the hands of chretien de troyes, wolfram von eschenbach and other writers, whence on the one hand we derive the morte d arthur of sir thomas malory, from which tennyson drew the materials for his idylls of the king, and on the other the glorious music of parsifal, in which wagner reconstructed so magnificently the german tradition of the grail brotherhood

LIBER CXCVII STORY OF SIR PALAMEDES

fore yawns the immeasurable wild. twelve days: the end. afar he spies the mountains stooping to the plain; a little splash of sunlight lies beyond the everlasting rain. his strength is done; he cannot stir. the child complains.how feebly now! his eyes are blank; he looks at her; the cold sweat gathers on his brow. sir palamedes, the saracen knight 15 to save the world.three days away! his life in knighthood.s life is furled, and knighthood.s life in his.to-day. his darling staked against the world! will he die there, his task undone? or dare he live, at such a cost? he cries against the impassive sun: the world is dim, is all but lost. when, with the bitterness of death cutting his soul, his fingers clench the piteous passage of her breath. the dews of horror rise and drench sir palamede t

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

ng to tradition, arthur, when a boy of fifteen, was crowned king of britain, in a.d. 516. soon after his ascension to the throne he founded the order of the knights of the round table at windsor. thereafter the knights met annually at carleon, winchester, or at camelot, to celebrate pentecost. from all parts of europe came the brave and the bold, seeking admission into this noble order of british knighthood. nobility, virtue, and valor were its requirements, and those possessing these qualities to a marked degree were welcomed to king arthur's court at camelot. having gathered the bravest and noblest knights of europe about him, king arthur chose twenty-four who excelled all the others in daring and integrity and formed of them his circle of the round table. according to legend, each of th

te the anniversary of their foundation it was necessary to use a round table that all might occupy chairs of equal importance. while it is probable that the order of the round table had its distinctive rituals and symbols, the knowledge of them has not survived the ages. elias ashmole, in his volume on the order of the garter, inserted a double-page plate showing the insignia of all the orders of knighthood, the block set aside for the symbol of the round table being left blank. the chief reason for the loss of the symbolism of the round table was the untimely death of king arthur upon the field of kamblan (a.d. 542) in the forty-first year of his life. while he destroyed his bitter enemy, mordred, in this famous battle, it cast him not only his own life but the lives of nearly all his kni

MORALS AND DOGMA

tues required of all good masons. the mason kneels, no longer to present his petition for admittance or to receive the answer, no longer to a man as his superior, who is but his brother, but to his god; to whom he appeals for the rectitude of his intentions, and whose aid he asks to enable him to keep his vows. no one is degraded by bending his knee to god at the altar, or to receive the honor of knighthood as bayard and du guesclin knelt. to kneel for other purposes, masonry does not require. god gave to man a head to be borne erect, a port upright and majestic. we assemble in our temples to cherish and inculcate sentiments that conform to that loftiness of bearing which the just and upright man is entitled to maintain, and we do not require those who desire to be admitted among us, ignom

hical instruction. sectarian of no creed, it has yet thought it not improper to use the old allegories, based on occurrences detailed in the hebrew and christian books, and drawn from the ancient mysteries of egypt, persia, greece, india, the druids and the essenes, as vehicles to communicate the great masonic truths; as it has used the legends of the crusades, and the ceremonies of the orders of knighthood. it no longer inculcates a criminal and wicked vengeance. it has not allowed masonry to play the assassin: to avenge the death either of hiram, of charles the 1st, or of jacques de molay and the templars. the ancient and accepted scottish rite of masonry has now become, what masonry at first was meant to be, a teacher of great truths, inspired by an upright and enlightened reason, a fir

ed that from thenceforth, as well they as their posterity, in time of war, would wear a cross of st. andrew for their badge and cognizance. john leslie, bishop of ross, says that this cross appeared to achaius, king of the scots, and hungus, king of the picts, the night before the battle was fought betwixt them and athelstane, king of england, as they were on their knees at prayer. every cross of knighthood is a symbol of the nine qualities of a knight of st. andrew of scotland; for every order of chivalry required of its votaries the same virtues and the same excellencies. humility, patience, and self-denial are the three essential qualities of a knight of st. andrew of scotland. the cross, sanctified by the blood of the holy ones who have died upon it; the cross, which jesus of nazareth

d to defend all orphans, maidens, and widows of good family, and wherever they heard of murderers, robbers, or masterful thieves who oppressed the people, to bring them to the laws, to the best of their power "if fortune fail you" so ran the vows of rouge-croix "in divers lands or countries wherever you go or ride that you find any gentleman of name and arms, which hath lost goods, in worship and knighthood, in the king's service, or in any other place of worship, and is fallen into poverty, you shall aid, and support, and succor him, in that you may; and he ask of you your goods to his sustenance, you shall give him part of such goods as god hath sent you to your power, and as you may bear" thus charity and generosity are even _more_ essential qualities of a true and gentle knight, and ha

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spendthrift gesture on the counter of the merchant of madness. on the steel of your helmet let there be gold inlaid with the motto "excess. the above indications are taken from a subsequent passage of the third chapter of this book. the supreme and absolute injunction, the crux of your knightly oath, is that you lay your lance in rest to the glory of your lady, the queen of the stars, nuit. your knighthood depends upon your refusal to fight in any lesser cause. that is what distinguishes you from the brigand and the bully. you give your life on her altar. you make yourself worthy of her by your readiness to fight at any time, in anyplace, with any weapon, and at any odds. for her, from whom you come, of whom you are, to whom you go, your life is no more and no less than one continuous sac

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the name given to a figure of legend in germanic mythology, so beautifully portrayed in wagner's opera of the same name. in british lore the same character is found as a member of king arthur's esteemed company of knights, and his place duly marked at the round table. in the arthurian legend, only percival (or to give him his correct name, sir percival de gales) achieved the highest qualities of knighthood that would inspire the age of chivalry, and to king edward the iii of england, founding the order of the garter, the oldest order of knighthood in the world, and one that remains in the monarch of britain's personal gift, without recourse to the prime minister or government of the day. through his integrity, purity, and loyalty, only percival was able to obtain the holy grail for his mo

results of this working was the regeneration of the order of the trapezoid as a truly functioning order under the authority of the temple of set. this charter is consequent to the wewelsburg working. it is intended not to define the limits of the order of the trapezoid, but to establish its true identity, essence, and point of departure. definition the order of the trapezoid (o..t) is an order of knighthood characterized by strict personal honor and faithfulness to the quest for the grail. the o..t. is a knighthood in that its members are pledged to the traditional chivalric virtues as appropriate to each situation encountered. by honor is meant a sense of justice, ethics, and responsibility prior to personal comfort, convenience, or advantage. this honor is known by one's faithfulness to

ion of the individual into a state of dynamic existence energized by the psyche, not by the physical body derived from the material universe. hence the o..t. is the gate to psychecentric immortality beyond physical death. authority the o..t. is established and consecrated by authority of the high priest of set under section# 5.01 of the bylaws of the temple of set. as such it is the only order of knighthood recognized and sanctioned by the prince of darkness. motto the motto of the o..t. is "walhalla (pronounced "valhalla. it signifies that, though the physical body through which a member of the order is manifest may wither or be destroyed, the individual consciousness has become that which cannot be destroyed or lose its coherence. it may return again to a corporeal shell, or it may manif

emblem there are no curved lines, signifying the black magical power of angular relationships and the law of the trapezoid. the emblem is further mathematically keyed to the phi-ratio. colors of the emblem are normally silver against a black field, though the design may be represented in black against a silver/white or red background. membership there are two levels of membership in the o..t: the knighthood and the masters of the order. conferring of knighthood is by decision of any master of the order, and upon signature to the oath of the order. thereafter each member is under obedience to no other member of the order, but rather to the divinity of the psyche (in ancient teutonic, the fylgja. members of the order may use the prefix "sir" or "lady, the initials "o..t" or "o.t" after their

members of the order may use the prefix "sir" or "lady, the initials "o..t" or "o.t" after their names, and the rune tyr) as a mark of identification to other members of the order. installation as a master of the order is by decision of the grand master. a master of the o..t. must also have been recognized as a priest of set iii. titles of address for masters of the order are the same as for the knighthood, but the identifying rune hagall) is employed. the grand master of the o..t. is appointed by the high priest of set and must also have been recognized as a master of the temple of set iv. title of address for the grand master is the same as for the knighthood, but the identifying rune eolh) is employed. any member of the o..t. is free to retire from the order honorably at any time by de

order within the temple of set, membership in the temple will be a prerequisite for membership in the order. there will be provision for honorary membership for non-members of the temple, but, as is the case with honorary memberships in the temple itself, these will be administered most sparingly and conscientiously. the oath the oath is sworn by every aspirant to the order upon admission to the knighthood. the aspirant's signature is affixed in jet ink; then the area of the paper covered by the signature is browned with the heat of a flame. upon receipt of the oath, and upon the word of a master of the order, the grand master shall confirm the knighthood. the oath-paper is sent to the aspirant upon the request of a master of the order. the text of the oath is thus: i (name, do hereby swe

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ide variety of setian initiatory methods, and the first offspring of the ut pylon has been born (the black runa pylon of sweden. what is promising is that priest iitti has now taken over the ut pylon and eagerly continues the project. a new phase in this project is to found a scandinavian order of the trapezoid lodge in munich (i have received charter from magister barrett to do this; the initial knighthood will consist of myself, priest iitti, adept andersson, and magister winkhart. this project will both seek to "bring the o.tr. into europe" and to explore the northern traditions/cultures to fuel the order's initiatory devices (i am also working with priestess kelly on my ammonian initiation. i hope this will in time result in my being able to teach the ammonian way in europe- in as much

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and successful have acquired their wealth and power only through their possession of secret formulas, utterance of magical words, and performance of supernatural rituals. those same individuals will seek desperately to become members of groups that they believe have such mystical powers or they will become obsessed in their efforts to destroy them. the knights templar gained status as an order of knighthood because of the selfless actions of a handful of knights who vowed to protect pilgrims on their way to the holy land. in the beginning, these pious and valiant knights were so poor that they had to share the same horse and take turns riding it. centuries later, when the knights templar had become the wealthiest and most powerful order in all of europe, it was decided by church and state

ogy of the secret societies. new york: macmillan, 1972. vankin, jonathan and john whalen. the seventy greatest conspiracies of all time: history fs biggest mysteries, coverups, and cabals. new york: citadel, 1998. wilgus, neal. the illuminoids. new york: pocket books, 1978. wilson, robert anton. masks of the illuminati. new york: pocket books, 1981. the knights templar the two principal orders of knighthood of the crusades were established prior to the launching of the first crusade in 1096 and shortly before the second crusade began in 1146. the fundamental principle on which the new orders were based was the union of monasticism and chivalry. before this time, a man could choose to devote himself to religion and become a monk, or he could elect to become a warrior and devote himself to d

launching of the first crusade in 1096 and shortly before the second crusade began in 1146. the fundamental principle on which the new orders were based was the union of monasticism and chivalry. before this time, a man could choose to devote himself to religion and become a monk, or he could elect to become a warrior and devote himself to defending god and country. the founding of the orders of knighthood permitted the vow of religion and the vow of war to be united in a single effort to free the holy land from the muslims. the oldest of the religio-chivalric orders was the knights of saint john of jerusalem, also known as the knights hospitallers and subsequently as the knights of malta and the knights of rhodes, founded in 1048. by the middle of the twelfth century, the hospitallers ha

and chivalric ideals of the order began to become corrupted by the enormous wealth that its warriors had accumulated. in 1187, the hospitallers were almost annihilated in the disastrous battle of tiberias, where the saracen army under the generalship of saladin (1137.1193, the sultan of egypt and syria, thoroughly defeated the christians and reclaimed jerusalem. the second of the great orders of knighthood was founded in 1117 by two french knights and was originally known as the knights of the temple of solomon and later as the knights templar or the knights of the red cross. hugues des paiens and geoffrey of saint-omer, two compassionate nobles, had t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d secret societies 19 observed the hardships endured

eing triumphant crusaders. they had the blessing of the pope. they had the gratitude of those whom they had protected on their pilgrimages. they had vast estates with mansions that could not be t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d secret societies 21 a woodcut depicting the knights templar in 1118 (corbis corporation) thetwo principal orders of knighthood of the crusades were established in 1096. invaded by any civil officer. thousands beseeched the order to allow them to become members of the templars. in the course of time the knights of the temple became a sovereign body, pledging allegiance to no secular ruler. in spiritual matters, the pope was still recognized as supreme, but in all other matters, the grand master of jerusalem was

not to be trusted. once the clergy saw that royal support would not be forthcoming for agrippa, they also managed to squelch publication of his praise of women. discouraged by margaret fs rejection of his work, agrippa went first to england, then to cologne where he continued his lectures and his studies. in 1515, his military prowess while serving in maximilian fs campaign in italy earned him a knighthood on the battlefield. coincident with this honor, the cardinal of st. croix asked agrippa to serve as representative to the council of pope leo x (1475.1521. agrippa was pleased to do so, for he saw this as an opportunity to rectify matters with the church whose clergy he had offended in the past, but when the council was disbanded before he could state his defense, he abandoned both his

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