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April 1992 Thelema Lodge Calendar/Newsletter (April & May events)
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Mailed free within 100 miles of San Francisco California
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Copyright (c) O.T.O. and the Individual Authors, 1992 e.v.
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Limited license is hereby granted to reproduce this file without fee, with
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this message intact. This license expires April 1993 e.v. unless renewed
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in writing. No charge other than reproduction costs is permitted under this
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license to the receivers of copies of this file without O.T.O. written
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permission.
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Ordo Templi Orientis
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P.O. Box 2303
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Berkeley, CA 94702 USA
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Temple Location: 588 63rd St.
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Oakland, California
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(Entrance in back, downstairs)
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Phones: TEMPLE PHONE: (415) 654-3580
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LODGE MASTER: (415) 658-3280
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Messages Only: (415) 454-5176
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Compuserve: 72105,1351
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Calendar events in the San Francisco Bay Area for April 1992 to May
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1992 e.v., in brief. Always call the contact phone number before
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attending. Some are limited in size, change location and may be subject to
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other adjustments.
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When you call, you don't get lost or disappointed. Initiations are private.
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Donations at all OTO events are welcome.
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4/1/92 Illuminati Game, 7:30 PM (510) 654-3580 Thelema Ldg
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4/5/92 Lodge Council & LOP 3:33 PM (510) 654-3580 Thelema Ldg
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4/5/92 Gnostic Mass 8 PM (510) 654-3580 Thelema Ldg
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4/6/92 Thelema Lodge Meeting 8 PM (510) 654-3580 Thelema Ldg
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4/8/92 Feast of Liber AL Ch. I, at Lola's (510) 654-3580 Thelema Ldg
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Call to attend. 8 PM
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4/9/92 Feast of Liber AL Ch. II, 8 PM (510) 654-3580 Thelema Ldg
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at Thelema Lodge, call to attend
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4/10/92 Feast of Liber AL Ch. III, at (510) 654-3580 Thelema Ldg
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Jerry's, Call to attend. 8 PM
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4/12/92 Gnostic Mass 8 PM (510) 654-3580 Thelema Ldg
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4/13/92 Ladies' T 5:30PM (510) 654-3580 Thelema Ldg
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4/14/92 "R U Sirius" class at Lola's (510) 654-3580 Thelema Ldg
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Call to attend. 8 PM
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4/18/92 Initiations at Thelema Lodge (510) 654-3580 Thelema Ldg
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call to attend
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4/19/92 Mass workshop 4:18 PM (510) 654-3580 Thelema Ldg
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4/19/92 Easter Mass 8 PM (510) 654-3580 Thelema Ldg
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4/23/92 Magick in Theory and Practice (510) 654-3580 Thelema Ldg
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Study Circle with Marlene 7PM
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4/25/92 Jerry's Logorrhea. Call to attend. (510) 654-3580 Thelema Ldg
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4/26/92 Lodge Clean-up 1:11 PM (510) 654-3580 Thelema Ldg
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4/26/92 Taurus Birthday 4:18 PM (510) 654-3580 Thelema Ldg
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4/26/92 Gnostic Mass 8:00 PM (510) 654-3580 Thelema Ldg
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4/29/92 Magick Theater Reads Crowley 7:30PM (510) 654-3580 Magick Thea
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"Why Jesus Wept"
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5/3/92 Lodge Council & LOP 3:33 PM (510) 654-3580 Magick Thea
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5/3/92 Gnostic Mass 8 PM (510) 654-3580 Magick Thea
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5/4/92 Thelema Lodge meeting 8 PM (510) 654-3580 Magick Thea
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5/5/92 Beltane
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5/9/92 Jerry's Videorhea 6:30 PM (510) 654-3580 Magick Thea
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Call to attend
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5/10/92 Gnostic Mass 8 PM (510) 654-3580 Magick Thea
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5/12/92 Planetary Magick a la Agrippa (510) 654-3580 Magick Thea
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with Mark S. Class 7:30 PM
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Invocation 9 PM
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5/14/92 Magick in Theory and Practice (510) 654-3580 Thelema Ldg
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Study Circle with Marlene 7PM
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5/17/92 Mass Workshop 4:18 PM (510) 654-3580 Magick Thea
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5/17/92 Gnostic Mass 8 PM (510) 654-3580 Magick Thea
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5/20/92 Class on Banishing Rituals 8 PM (510) 654-3580 Magick Thea
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with Bill Heidrick
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5/23/92 Thelema Lodge initiations (510) 654-3580 Magick Thea
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Call to attend
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5/24/92 Gnostic Mass 8 PM (510) 654-3580 Magick Thea
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5/27/92 Basic Astrology with Grace 8 PM (510) 654-3580 Magick Thea
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5/28/92 Magick in Theory and Practice (510) 654-3580 Thelema Ldg
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Study Circle with Marlene 7PM
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5/30/92 Jerry's Logorrhea 6:30 PM (510) 654-3580 Magick Thea
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Call to attend
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5/31/92 Lodge Clean-up begins 1:11 PM (510) 654-3580 Magick Thea
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5/31/92 Gemini Birthday party 4:18 PM (510) 654-3580 Magick Thea
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5/31/92 Gnostic Mass 8 PM (510) 654-3580 Magick Thea
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The Hermit
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Aeons of evolution
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& grope thru the slime & the mud
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Cellular convolution
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of synapse, nerve, & blood
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life's a maze in passage
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must somehow end in good
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So staff in hand I roam the land
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in pilgrim's cloak and hood
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& I long for that moment
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of perfection
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when my only thought
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is serene reflection
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How I came to dwell
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In this hallowed mansion
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at the end of Time
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In the last dimension
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-fra Criss Piss
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'72
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CROWLEY CLASSICS
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The Ouija Board: A Note
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by The Master Therion
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[Originally published in "The International" (New York) XI:10 (October 1917
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e.v.), p. 319. Crowley's work nearly fills this entire issue, and he may have
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also written the opening editorial, which includes the statement: "To read
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"The International" is a liberal education, and the best of it is that it is
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all done by kindness!"]
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Suppose a perfect stranger came into your office and proceeded to give
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orders to your staff. Suppose a strange woman walked into your drawing room
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and insisted on being hostess. You would be troubled by this. Yet, people
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sit down and offer the use of their brains and hands (which are, after all,
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more important than offices and drawing rooms) to any stray intelligence that
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may be wandering about. People use the Ouija Board without taking the
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slightest precautions.
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The establishment of the identity of a spirit by ordinary methods is a
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very difficult problem, but the majority of people who play at Occultism do
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not even worry about this. They get something, and it does not seem to matter
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what! Every inanity, every stupidity, every piece of rubbish, is taken not
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only at its face value, but at an utterly exaggerated value. The most
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appallingly bad poetry will pass for Shelley, if only its authentication be
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that of the planchette! There is, however, a good way of using this
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instrument to get what you want, and that is to perform the whole operation in
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a consecrated circle, so that undesirable aliens cannot interfere with it.
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You should then employ the proper magical invocation in order to get into your
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circle just the one spirit that you want. It is comparatively easy to do
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this. A few simple instructions are all that is necessary, and I shall be
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pleased to give these, free of charge, to any one who cares to apply.
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It is not particularly easy to get the spirit of a dead man, because the
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human soul, being divine, in not amenable to the control of other human souls:
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and it is further not legitimate or desirable to do it. But what can be done
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is to pick up the astral remains of the dead man from the Akasha and to build
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them up into a concrete mind. This operation, again, is not particularly
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profitable. The only legitimate work in this line is to get into touch with
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the really high intelligences, such as we call for convenience Gods,
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Archangels, and the like. These can give real information as to what is most
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necessary for our progress. And it is written in the Oracles of Zoroaster
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that unto the Persevering Mortal the Blessed Immortals are swift.
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finis
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from the Grady Project
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Dance of the Gargoyle
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Elemental-spirit flame-
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Splay of snout and horny hoofed.
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Deadly as a tiger lame
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Bronze of claw and palate roofed,
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Black as pigment, night the hue
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Of scaly hide, ocher eyes,
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Stir the cauldron; churn and strew
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Smoke across the boiling skies.
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And upon its wivern head
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Hideous beyond compare-
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Wattled monster of the hood-
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Vanity with heavy tread
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Stamps a livid imprint there:
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"This is beauty, this is good."
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-Grady L. McMurtry
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9/17/42 e.v.
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[This sonnet was previously published in
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"The Grady Project" #3 (1988 e.v.).]
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DRAMA
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The RITE OF OURANOS
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(published with the permission of Andrew Clay)
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This experimental
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production was inspired by
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Crowley's "Rites of Eleusis".
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It was written and produced by
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Frater U.P. with distinguished
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assistance. Invocations
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selected by Susan O'Farrell.
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Gaia's song to Kronos written
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by Terri Sal.
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First performance: 18th
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December 1991 e.v., 8:30 PM
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(Sol in Sagittarius, Luna in
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Taurus) at the No Theatre in
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Oakland.
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DRAMATIS PERSONAE
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Aquarius Sister Susan O'F.
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Mercury Brother Michael S.
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Prometheus Brother John B.
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Gaia Sister Terri S.
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Ouranos Brother Andrew C.
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Kronos Brother Lew
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Titans Brother Eric S.
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Venus Sister Stacey G.
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SCENE. --- "The foothills of Mt Olympus - if not under the stars, there is a
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backdrop of the night sky - electric cords and appliances lie in a
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confused net on the floor and amongst audience - there is a pool at
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the back of the stage - "AQUARIUS" sits at poolside - "MERCURY" enters
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bearing a silver throne"
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AQUARIUS. Good, you've come.
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MERCURY. Yes, I've made it, and there's the throne. Still, I don't
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quite grasp the scheme of what you propose. How do we begin to visit the
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Lord Ouranos? He is locked out in the abyss; he is invisible to us. His
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light shines beyond our skies, and he is Lord to a frozen void.
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AQUARIUS. Truly, to seek him is difficult, and I know of no ship or
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wing that could sail to him. Yet I mean to journey not through Space, but
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Time - to before the beginning, when Chaos was all, and Ouranos touched
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even this terrestrial ground.
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MERCURY. Pierce the veil of Time? By what means?
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AQUARIUS. Here. I have brought along an invocation ["she tears pieces
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of script from her robes, gives them to" MERCURY]. This should produce the
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desired effect. We must return to the primal singularity where all laws
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are suspended. You may begin.
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[MERCURY "performs Star Ruby, after which they trade off reading chapters
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of ARARITA - before the final chapter they are interrupted"]
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PROMETHEUS ["offstage"]. Hold! Please wait!
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MERCURY. What? Hello? Who speaks?
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PROMETHEUS ["enters"]. I am Prometheus the Titan.
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MERCURY. What? Art thou freed?
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PROMETHEUS. My life was ransomed. It is a long tale that I will not
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relate here. Tell me this: are you the company that seeks to perform a Rite
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to the exiled Lord Ouranos?
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AQUARIUS. We are.
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PROMETHEUS. With your leave, I'd like to join you.
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AQUARIUS. Why do you seek him?
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PROMETHEUS. For one, he is my grandfather; but I alone of his
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descendants am truly of his temper. He also sought enlightenment and
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freedom also, like me, paid for it dearly. Now that I am an exile no
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longer, I wish to see that first exile, as to look in a mirror. If you go
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to do him homage, please take me! You'll not find a more willing
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companion.
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AQUARIUS. It is done. Perhaps you can be useful to us.
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MERCURY. Well met, sir. I always thought they were hard on you on
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Olympus. Silence is golden, as they say! But that's not how I am. I hate
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secrecy.
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PROMETHEUS. Man will be poisoned by knowledge, they said. He will grow
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like a precocious weed and trample Earth in childish arrogance. Time will
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tell, I suppose. Yet surely people can learn from their errors!
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MERCURY. Time will tell, as you say.
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AQUARIUS. Prometheus, if you will, please conclude our reading.
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[PROMETHEUS "reads last chapter of" ARARITA]
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AQUARIUS. Now, Brother Mercury, perform this ["hands him a sheet"].
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MERCURY. As you will ["He banishes Earth and invokes Air".]
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AQUARIUS. Now, brothers, let us read this last together.
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["Together they recite the invocation of the First Aethyr (Enochian) -
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when they finish, all lights go out - silence - softer light slowly
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returns"]
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AQUARIUS. Brother Mercury, know you the hour?
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MERCURY. I don't think we'll find a timepiece here. Time has yet to
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hang his weights. Gods, what stars! What light!
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AQUARIUS. They sing each to each, like bells.
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MERCURY. And this air! No - what do we breathe? The milk of lightning?
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the tails of comets?
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PROMETHEUS. We breathe our freedom. My lungs ache for joy.
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MERCURY. Quite a trick! A fine incantation! Aquarius, you have led us
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well. ["Strides across stage"] Look at this space! Naught for leagues!
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Indeed heaven has been spread upon the earth! But is all a void?
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AQUARIUS. Nay, we stand upon the Earth, mother of all life. With luck,
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we may glimpse the form of Gaia, wife to the Lord Ouranos, strolling upon
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the land, and from her have word of him.
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MERCURY. What of Lord Ouranos? When can we expect him?
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AQUARIUS. "Expect"? Expect to be surprised. Time does not bind him.
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PROMETHEUS: But it can wound him. And shut him out.
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["Enter" GAIA]
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MERCURY. Look, there she is!
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AQUARIUS. Hail, Gaia, Queen of Goddesses!
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ME. & PR. Hail!
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AQUARIUS. Blessed is the fruit of thy womb.
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GAIA ["long pause - not comprehending - speeks slowly"]. Who could you
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be?
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AQUARIUS. We are beings you cannot yet know - your future offspring.
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GAIA. Future?
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MERCURY. Yes, we travelled from thence through the wondrous
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intercession of the stars.
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GAIA. I did not know there was a future.
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PROMETHEUS. How's that?
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GAIA. All has been thus. All ... continues ... Yet you are strange ..
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why are you here?
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PROMETHEUS. To do homage to the Lord Ouranos, your husband.
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GAIA. Homage? ... To him? ["looks up"]
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MERCURY. It is our custom to honor the gods, each in turn; yet Ouranos
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has been omitted, for he is invisible to us - in our time, that is.
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GAIA ["pause"]. And you are my - my children?
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MERCURY. Grandchildren, actually.
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PROMETHEUS. Where is the Lord Ouranos?
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GAIA. Among the stars, I suppose. ["Uncomfortable silence"]
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MERCURY. Well, this is a strange and interesting place. ["Paces"] Kind
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of desolate. ["Peers around"] Like bouncing around in your own head.
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GAIA ["addresses" AQUARIUS]. Tell me more of your world, of your time.
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AQUARIUS. It is beautiful. It is a place of plenty where -
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["A rustling is heard and" OURANOS "drops down from above"]
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OURANOS ["looks at" GAIA "- points at newcomers"]. Mmmm-mmwaarrrrrrht!
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["He is incapable of human speech. He points accusingly at" GAIA "and
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makes like he has a big belly"]
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GAIA. No, I didn't just have more children. They came from - they came
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from the future!
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[OURANOS "looks at them incredulously, then backs away, miming that he is
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about to be hung"]
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GAIA. No, they're nice, they like you! They came to see you!
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AQUARIUS. Hail, Ouranos, first of the gods!
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MERCURY. Hail, Ouranos, genius of the stars!
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PROMETHEUS. Hail to thee, grandfather.
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AQUARIUS. See, we are prepared to enthrone thee. [MERCURY "brings the
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throne around behind" OURANOS] Be seated, and we shall honor thee with
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praise!
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[OURANOS "hesitates, confused, then sits - the" OLYMPIANS "arrange
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themselves before him - he fidgets, peeling off the aluminum foil
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from the throne and making a mask with it on his face"]
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MERCURY. Hail, thou that - [OURANOS "mimes that he wields a sceptre,
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then bursts out laughing - he leaps up, toppling the throne"]. Well, so
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much for that.
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[OURANOS "points at" AQUARIUS, "makes inquisitorial noises"]
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AQUARIUS. I am Aquarius, the Water-bearer, of the Air element, and the
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Star is my emblem. [OURANOS "is pleased, points from sky to her to himself
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and the company -" AQ "smiles, nods."] Yes, Every man and every woman is a
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star.
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MERCURY. And I am Mercury, Messenger of the Gods, who rules over
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swiftness and cunning, calculation and memory. In one of my guises I gave
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writing to man. [OURANOS "is impressed - makes scribbling gestures - goes
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offstage and returns with a copy machine - he starts it churning off pages"]
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That's amazing!
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GAIA ["after machine has spewed out several reams"]. Turn it off!
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[OURANOS "sticks out his tongue and yanks the cord - he promptly turns on
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another device"]
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PROMETHEUS. Grandfather, I am Prometheus. In later times I gave fire
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to man, to give him power and brighten his intelligence.
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[OURANOS "grabs him, makes wild gesticulations and runs out -" GAIA "shuts
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off any devices left on"]
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MERCURY ["after pause"]. Well, it's certainly surprising that the poor
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fellow can't speak! What a strange turn!
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GAIA. It's too humble for him.
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MERCURY. What? so he gibers like a baboon?
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GAIA. He's like that ... either over your head or completely
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ridiculous. ["pause"] But you ... you are like him, a little. You partake
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of his mind.
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AQUARIUS. Tell us of your children, Gaia. Are they well?
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GAIA. Well, the Titans are fine; Cronos especially turned out to be a
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strong boy. But then I - ["pause -" GAIA "is on the verge of tears "]
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MERCURY. Is something wrong?
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[OURANOS "enters bringing a lit sparkler (or with torch) and a
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blackboard. He sets up the blackboard and gives the sparkler to"
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PROMETHEUS "- makes explosive gestures - draws molecular diagrams to
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explain fire"]
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MERCURY. What is he doing?
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AQUARIUS. Imparting to Prometheus the secrets of fire. [To" PROMETHEUS]
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Do you follow him?
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PROMETHEUS. I think so. Gods, how beautiful. The interplay of light
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and the inmost structures of matter produce rainbows and candleflames, and
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the furnaces of our bodies - all from the discrimination of tiny beings,
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their attractions and repulsions - they are like onions, enfolded,
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intricately ordered, and they try to fill each other's deficiencies, in so
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doing releasing light and vibration, and so there is fire! - in our lungs
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and sinews as well as raging through forests - and a thousand other
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combinations as well - Lord Ouranos, these are wonders, yet they surround
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us.
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[OURANOS "leaps and nods and makes noises"]
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MERCURY. All that in a candleflame! I'm impressed! And more so that
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you understand him. Certainly went over my head.
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PROMETHEUS. We do understand each other well.
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(To be continued with the "tears of Gaia" in the next issue)
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FROM THE OUT BASKET
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Here are the membership figures from Agape Grand Lodge, showing the
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population of OTO by Degree and location, world wide:
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O.T.O. active membership from accounting at end February 1992 e.v.
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ADV ----------------- 72
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Associates ---------- 273
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Minervals ----------- 605
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Ist Degrees --------- 483
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IInd Degrees -------- 291
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IIIrd Degrees ------- 198
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IVth Degrees -------- 111
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Vth Degrees --------- 67
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Higher Degrees ------ 31
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=====
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2,131 All
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1,786 of which are initiates.
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Known addresses by regions at end February 1992 e.v.
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(Associates and initiates both) Total: 1726 in 32 countries<Note A>
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UNITED STATES TOTAL: -------------- 1063
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Alabama ------------ 13 Missouri ----------- 3
|
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Alaska ------------- 1 Montana ------------ 2
|
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Arizona ------------ 24 Nebraska ----------- 16
|
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Arkansas ----------- 3 Nevada ------------- 4
|
||
California --------- 325 New Hampshire ------ 8
|
||
(North CA 187) New Jersey --------- 21
|
||
(South CA 138) New Mexico --------- 6
|
||
Colorado ----------- 7 New York ----------- 128
|
||
Connecticut -------- 13 North Carolina ----- 5
|
||
Delaware ----------- 3 Ohio --------------- 16
|
||
Florida ------------ 34 Oklahoma ----------- 14
|
||
Georgia ------------ 37 Oregon ------------- 22
|
||
Hawaii ------------- 7 Pennsylvania ------- 24
|
||
Idaho -------------- 1 Puerto Rico -------- 9
|
||
Illinois ----------- 32 Rode Island -------- 6
|
||
Indiana ------------ 41 South Carolina ----- 4
|
||
Iowa --------------- 4 Tennessee ---------- 11
|
||
Kansas ------------- 6 Texas -------------- 43
|
||
Kentucky ----------- 3 US Virgin Islands -- 1
|
||
Louisiana ---------- 16 Utah --------------- 14
|
||
Maine -------------- 1 Vermont ------------ 2
|
||
Maryland ----------- 7 Virginia ----------- 6
|
||
Massachusetts ------ 25 Washington --------- 46
|
||
Michigan ----------- 14 West Virginia ------ 3
|
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Minnesota ---------- 11 Wisconsin ---------- 18
|
||
Mississippi -------- 3
|
||
EUROPE TOTAL: -------------------- 540<Note B>
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BELGIUM ------------ 3 NORWAY ------------- 45
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||
BULGARIA ----------- 4 PORTUGAL ----------- 1
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||
CROATIA ----------- 51 SCOTLAND ----------- 3
|
||
DENMARK ------------ 18 SLOVENIA ---------- 48
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||
ENGLAND ------------ 92 SPAIN -------------- 1
|
||
FRANCE ------------- 22 SWEDEN ------------- 14
|
||
GERMANY ------------ 78 SWITZERLAND -------- 4
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||
GREECE ------------- 2 YUGOSLAVIA --------- 132
|
||
N & S IRELAND/ERIE - 3 Bosnia-Herecegovina -- 25
|
||
ITALY -------------- 14 Montenegro --------- 3
|
||
NETHERLANDS -------- 5 Serbia -------------- 104
|
||
|
||
CANADA TOTAL: ---------------------- 133
|
||
Alberta ------------ 46 Ontario ------------ 32
|
||
British Columbia --- 30 Quebec ------------- 25
|
||
OCEANIA & ASIA TOTAL: ------------- 105
|
||
AUSTRALIA ---------- 70 NEW ZEALAND -------- 25
|
||
JAPAN -------------- 10
|
||
PANAMERICA (exp. US&CAN) TOTAL: ----- 12
|
||
BRAZIL ------------- 4 MEXICO ------------- 1
|
||
ECUADOR ------------ 1 PERU --------------- 1
|
||
GUADELOUPE --------- 5
|
||
AFRICA TOTAL: ------------------------ 6
|
||
NIGERIA ------------ 4 TOGO --------------- 1
|
||
SOUTH AFRICA ------- 1
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||
|
||
NOTES:
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A Last year's total was too high by 179, through an error in
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adding Yugoslavia twice. The correct count at February
|
||
1991 e.v. was 1577)
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||
|
||
B Error discovered in last year's Feb. 1991 e.v. figures for
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||
Europe. Yugoslavia was added twice, giving an incorrect
|
||
count of 581 when the correct count was 402.
|
||
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FROM THE HISTORY HEAP
|
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|
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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
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||
Liber AL vel Legis I:40
|
||
|
||
April 2, 1886 He went to England & joined the Roman Catholic Church,
|
||
convinced that by thus forging a magical link he would be able to
|
||
persuade that Church to accept the Law of Thelema. He then returned
|
||
to Vancouver, clad in only a raincoat. On disembarkation, he flung
|
||
it off and began a ritual circumambulation of the city's center. He
|
||
was summarily arrested and imprisoned. This was of course Charles
|
||
Stanfield Jones, who was born on this date.
|
||
|
||
April 2, 1920 Aleister Crowley founds the Abbey at Cefalu, Italy.
|
||
|
||
April 2, 1948 The birth of the Aeon of Maat or Ma-Ion.
|
||
|
||
April 7, 1927 Dion Fortune and Thomas Penry Evans are married. It must have
|
||
been apparent to her that she had not married the ideal magical
|
||
sexual partner because many of the things she spoke about did not
|
||
appear to work out too well with the good Dr. Evans.
|
||
|
||
April 7, 1945 In a letter to Aleister Crowley on this date Louis Wilkinson
|
||
(Louis Marlow) writes. "...if it had not been for Waite, I doubt
|
||
if, humanly speaking, I should ever have got in touch with the Great
|
||
Order."
|
||
|
||
April 8, 1904 The first chapter of "Liber AL" is dictated to Aleister
|
||
Crowley at noon in Cairo, Egypt.
|
||
|
||
April 8, 1948 Frater Achad claims the Aeon of Aquarius officially commenced
|
||
on this date.
|
||
|
||
April 9, 1904 Aleister Crowley receives the second chapter of "Liber AL" at
|
||
noon in Cairo, Egypt.
|
||
|
||
April 10, 1904 Aleister Crowley receives the third chapter of "Liber AL" at
|
||
noon in Cairo, Egypt.
|
||
|
||
April 10, 1934 Before the publication of "Laughing Torso" Nina Hamnett wrote
|
||
to Aleister Crowley, "I have written quite a lot about you, very
|
||
nice and appreciative. No libel, no rubbish, simply showing up the
|
||
stale bourgeois attitude to all our behavior."
|
||
|
||
April 11, 1930 Anton Szandor LeVey born, he was never a typical child.
|
||
|
||
April 12, 1929 Crowley receives his advance copy of "Magick in Theory and
|
||
Practice" on this date from the publisher in Paris.
|
||
|
||
April 17, 1929 The New York Times newspaper reports, Paris to expel A.
|
||
Crowley, order effective today.
|
||
|
||
April 17, 1971 Louis Culling turns over his pretended leadership of the
|
||
O.T.O. and its "Lodge", The Thelema Club, also known as the New Aeon
|
||
experiment to Carroll Runyon Jr.
|
||
|
||
April 19, 1900 Crowley enters the London Vault of Adepts wearing full
|
||
Highland dress, a black mask over his face, a dagger at his side and
|
||
a gold cross on his breast, to seize control of the Vault, on behalf
|
||
of McGregor Mathers. The Adepts called the police and had him
|
||
removed.
|
||
|
||
April 19, 1900 The Golden Dawn officially expels McGregor Mathers as its
|
||
Chief of the Second Order.
|
||
|
||
April 19, 1933 Anton LaVay describes her as "lewd, lascivious virago who was
|
||
happiest when rolling on the floor with masochistic orgastic energy.
|
||
She liked to be humiliated, liked to be degraded. There was nothing
|
||
forbidden in bed, and she reveled in her lusts. He was referring to
|
||
Jayne Mansfield, who was born on this date.
|
||
|
||
April 22, 1954 Adolf Lanz who founded the New Templars, shortly after being
|
||
expelled from a Cistercian Monastery, died on this date.
|
||
|
||
April 23, 1908 The first Buddhist Monk came to England. He was an Englishman
|
||
named Ananda Metteyya (Allen Bennett) and came to spread the Dhamma.
|
||
In the Golden Dawn he was known as Iehi Aour. He regarded the
|
||
pleasures of the living (and, above all, those of physical love) as
|
||
diabolical illusions devised by the enemy of mankind in order to
|
||
trick souls into accepting the curse of existence.
|
||
|
||
April 25, 1900 In a letter to Lady Gregory, W.B.Yeats writes, "... Crowley, a
|
||
quite unspeakable person. He is I believe seeking revenge for our
|
||
refusal to initiate him. We did not admit him because we did not
|
||
think a mystical society was intended to be a reformatory.
|
||
|
||
April 29, 1969 Grady McMurtry arrives in California from Washington to
|
||
rekindle the O.T.O.
|
||
|
||
April 30, 1966 On Walpurgis Nacht, shorn of locks of hair, Anton LaVay
|
||
proclaims 'Year One' and creates the First Church of Satan
|
||
|
||
|
||
Love is the law, love under will.
|
||
Liber AL vel Legis I:57
|
||
|
||
Cornelius/Herndon.
|
||
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
|
||
STOP PRESS!
|
||
Congratulations to Criss and Ariadne on the birth of Alexander Molek on
|
||
3/26/92 e.v., 3:37 AM, 8 lb 4 oz by natural childbirth! Mother and son both
|
||
doing well. Father expected to recover. Kudos to Marlene for radar (she came
|
||
by to visit and spotted Ariadne hoofing it toward the hospital while enroute).
|
||
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
THELEMA LODGE CALENDAR
|
||
|
||
APRIL 1992 e.v.
|
||
|
||
(with May 1992 e.v. projections)
|
||
|
||
|
||
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
|
||
|
||
Celebratio Liber Legis
|
||
|
||
"It must have been on the 7th of April that W." [Ourada the Seer, Rose
|
||
Crowley] "commanded P." [Frater Perdurabo, a.k.a. Chioa Khan] ". . . to enter
|
||
the "temple" exactly at 12 o'clock noon on three successive days, and to write
|
||
down what he should hear, rising exactly at 1 o'clock.
|
||
This he did. Immediately on his taking his seat the Voice began its
|
||
Utterance, and ended exactly at the expiration of the hour.
|
||
These are the three chapters of Liber Legis, . . . . the 65 pages of MS.,
|
||
and the 220 verses. . . . and it is the First and Greatest of those Class A
|
||
publications of A.'.A.'. of which is not to be altered so much as the style of
|
||
a letter." (from "The Temple of Solomon the King" in "Equinox" I:7, March
|
||
1912 e.v.)
|
||
Celebration of the feast for the three days of the writing of the Book of
|
||
the Law opens with a reading of chapter one at Lola's on Wednesday evening 8
|
||
April. Chapter two will be read at Thelema Lodge on Thursday evening 9 April.
|
||
Chapter three on Friday evening 10 April is at Jerry's. Each reading beings
|
||
at 8:00. Please phone each household as you set forth to attend, so that our
|
||
hosts can keep in touch with the crowd they'll be entertaining.
|
||
Contact Terri at the lodge to help make arrangements for Lunar Rituals
|
||
and outings this month. The New Moon in Aries will be on Thursday 2 April at
|
||
9:01 PM. Luna is full in Libra on Thursday 16 April at 9:42 PM. Also, plan
|
||
ahead for the New Moon in Taurus on Saturday 2 May at 10:44 AM.
|
||
Spring forward into Daylight Saving Time, beginning Sunday morning 5
|
||
April at 2=3 AM.
|
||
Looking to next month, May Day is Friday 1 May, and Beltane (Sol fifteen
|
||
degrees Taurus) is calculated for Tuesday 5 May. How about a bonfire at the
|
||
beach?
|
||
|
||
Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica
|
||
|
||
Thelema Lodge gathers most Sunday evenings as the Gnostic Catholic Church
|
||
in Horus Temple to celebrate mass according to Crowley's Liber XV. We welcome
|
||
interested members of the spiritual community to participate in the gnostic
|
||
eucharist with us at this ritual. (Those unfamiliar with the lodge please
|
||
call ahead to attend.) The Mass is usually underway shortly after 8:00.
|
||
Bishops Sappho and Suleiman offer a Gnostic Mass workshop Sunday
|
||
afternoon 19 April at 4:18; please leave word for them at the lodge during the
|
||
preceding week so they'll know what attendance to expect. Beginning this
|
||
month, scheduling for the Gnostic Mass has reverted to the regular Lodge
|
||
Meeting-that's Monday 6 April (to request a date in June), or Monday 4 May
|
||
(for July's masses).
|
||
|
||
Mysteria Mystica Maxima
|
||
|
||
Thelema Lodge will be conducting initiations in Ordo Templi Orientis on
|
||
Saturday 18 April. Members please inquire regarding the times and the degrees
|
||
involved. Application forms for candidacy to the Man of Earth degrees in
|
||
O.T.O. are available from officers of the lodge, for submission to the lodge
|
||
master at least forty days before the proposed initiation. For guidance in
|
||
the work of your "present" degree and your advancement through it, contact the
|
||
appropriate Hierophant.
|
||
|
||
Minerval . . . . . . . . . . . Lola - (510) 525-2205
|
||
First Degree . . . . . . . . . Jerry - (510) 658-3280
|
||
Second Degree . . . . . . . Marlene - (510) 654-5801
|
||
Third Degree . . . . . . . . . Ebony - (510) 547-3903
|
||
|
||
Collegium Fraternitatis
|
||
|
||
Each month the members of Thelema Lodge offer to share a course of study,
|
||
ritual, and enjoyment in a series of events which are open free of charge to
|
||
interested participation on any level. As a lodge we all pay rent on the
|
||
precincts of Horus Temple, collected mainly from contributions of those
|
||
attending events there. Whenever possible, thanks for your support when the
|
||
hat is passed round.
|
||
Get Set-for "R. U. Sirius", an evening of investigation into the Shadow
|
||
of Horus. Come and color a set of Egyptian Hieroglyphic alphabet cards while
|
||
listening to stories and exchanging information about the Dog Star. Call
|
||
ahead, then gather at Lola's before 8:00 on Wednesday evening 14 April.
|
||
Join the lodge as we take over the world at last, with an Illuminati Game
|
||
to mark the Feast of All Fools, Wednesday evening 32 March, beginning at 7:30.
|
||
Caitlin knows about it!
|
||
The Thelema Lodge Magick in Theory and Practice Study Circle meets once
|
||
only this month, on Thursday evening 23 April at 7:00. Those interested in
|
||
joining this reading and discussion group should contact Marlene. The
|
||
Circle's study of Crowley's "elementary manual" is nearing a cycle of
|
||
completion, and the group will soon be advancing on to other seminal texts of
|
||
the Master Therion, such as "Book Four", "Magick Without Tears", "The Book of
|
||
Thoth", and "Eight Lectures on Yoga".
|
||
"Jerry's Logorrhea" is Saturday afternoon 25 April at 6:30. The entire
|
||
range of traditions of the A.'.A.'. and O.T.O. is explored in this informal
|
||
monthly lecture series. "Please call ahead" for details.
|
||
The Magick Theater reads Crowley's drama "Why Jesus Wept: A Study of
|
||
Society and of the Grace of God" (1905 e.v.) on Wednesday evening 29 April.
|
||
The reading begins at 7:30 at Thelema Lodge, with copies available of this
|
||
newly edited text, a "remarkable investigation (in dramatic form) into a
|
||
critical point of the religious History of the West". In originally
|
||
advertising this play, its author wrote:
|
||
"Are you a young and tender-hearted maiden? "Why Jesus Wept" will
|
||
delight you, and fill you with beautiful thoughts.
|
||
Are you a devout Mystic? In "Why Jesus Wept" is the key to Beatitude.
|
||
Are you a hustling business man? "Why Jesus Wept" will tone up your
|
||
harried nervous system.
|
||
Are you a poet? "Why Jesus Wept" will not cut your hair; but it will
|
||
raise it.
|
||
Are you a dog-fancier? You will never beat the breed of bitches in "Why
|
||
Jesus Wept"
|
||
Are you a theologian? "Why Jesus Wept" proves that Christ was no
|
||
lachrymose hysterical hypochondriac, but a man with a genuine grievance.
|
||
Are you a Christian? "Why Jesus Wept" tells how God's Grace can destroy
|
||
the Works of the Devil.
|
||
"Why Jesus Wept" touches Society with a needle; Religion with a
|
||
pitchfork.
|
||
"Why Jesus Wept" startles the Belle. "Why Jesus Wept" annihilates the
|
||
Quack.
|
||
Imposture cannot live in the breezy atmosphere of "Why Jesus Wept"
|
||
Children love its dainty fooling: wise men pore over its profound
|
||
revelations of the human heart.
|
||
The "Milwaukee Christian Science Tomahawk" says: "Now we know why."
|
||
Planning ahead for next month, we're offered a class on Banishing Rituals
|
||
with Bill Heidrick (Wednesday 20 May) and a new six-week series on Basic
|
||
Astrology with Grace (beginning Wednesday 27 May).
|
||
Planetary Magick ""a la Agrippa"" class and invocation number five will
|
||
be held next month on Tuesday evening 12 May. Invocation at approximately
|
||
9:00 of Mars in Aries. Rather than focusing on printed materials as in
|
||
previous classes, this class will focus on individual chart analysis, so come
|
||
prepared with information about your birthdate and exact time. Class starts
|
||
at 7:30. This is the final class and invocation until October, when Jupiter
|
||
enters Libra, and Saturn goes direct.
|
||
|
||
Conventi Thelemicorum
|
||
|
||
Lodge Meeting is on Monday evening 6 April at 8:00. Calendar events,
|
||
mass teams, and plans in general for the month of June will be scheduled and
|
||
discussed, with questions and proposals welcome from all members.
|
||
The Lodge of Perfection and Lodge Council meet on Sunday afternoon 5
|
||
April at 3:33. (IV Degree and above only; please contact the Lodgemaster
|
||
beforehand to attend.)
|
||
Thelemic women are welcome to join in the ongoing Ladies T-s at the
|
||
lodge. Terri offers crumpets and the steaming brew, on Monday afternoon 13
|
||
April, beginning at 5:30.
|
||
Sunday afternoon 26 April is Lodge Clean-Up day, when a general effort is
|
||
organized to maintain the sanctity of Horus Temple, with housekeeping
|
||
assistance of all kinds requested beginning at 1:11, to culminate in a
|
||
stomping Taurus birthday cake at 4:18 PM.
|
||
|
||
Love is the law, love under will.
|
||
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
April 1992 e.v. Thelema Lodge Calendar (April & May events)
|
||
|
||
Mailed free within 100 miles of San Francisco California
|
||
|
||
Ordo Templi Orientis
|
||
P.O. Box 2303
|
||
Berkeley, CA 94702 USA
|
||
|
||
Temple Location: 588 63rd St.
|
||
Oakland, California
|
||
(Entrance in back, downstairs)
|
||
|
||
Phones: TEMPLE PHONE: (415) 654-3580
|
||
LODGE MASTER: (415) 658-3280
|
||
Messages only: (415) 454-5176
|
||
|
||
Compuserve: 72105,1351
|
||
|
||
|
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|
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|
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|
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he Shadow
|
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