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July 1990 Thelema Lodge Calendar/Newsletter (July and August 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, 1990 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 July 1991 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: Lodge Master: (415) 647-8147
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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 July 1990 to August
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1990 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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We are experiencing difficulty with the Thelema Lodge phone, please call well
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in advance of the event you would like to attend. For this reason, the
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residence phone has been provided below in place of the Temple phone. When
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calling this new number, please remember that you are contacting a private
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number rather than the usual public access number.
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Date: Description: Contact: Sponsor:
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7/1/90 Fish & Chips Feed $5-$10 donation (415) 647-8147 Thelema Ldg
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(sliding scale) 4:18 PM ...
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--- come, eat & help pay the rent!
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7/1/90 Gnostic Mass at Sunset (415) 647-8147 Thelema Ldg
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7/5/90 "777" -- Chinese Attributions 7:30PM (415) 647-8147 Hypatia Cmp
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7/6/90 Initiations Workshop 2nd Deg 8 PM (415) 647-8147 Thelema Ldg
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7/8/90 Gnostic Mass at Sunset (415) 647-8147 Thelema Ldg
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7/9/90 "New England" with Jerry 8 PM (415) 647-8147 Thelema Ldg
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7/11/90 Magick & Qabalah # 3 with Bill 8 PM (415) 454-5176 Thelema Ldg
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7/13/90 Brocken Mtn. Mass for IIIrds and up (415) 647-8147 Thelema Ldg
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only. 9:30 PM
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7/14/90 Magick & Qabalah #4 (field trip to (415) 454-5176 Thelema Ldg
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Mt. Tam, leaving San Anselmo.)
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7/15/90 Gnostic Mass at Sunset & Lodge (415) 647-8147 Thelema Ldg
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clean-up.
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7/17/90 Reading: "Household Gods" 7:30 PM (415) 647-8147 Magick Theat.
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7/20/90 Initiations Workshop 3rd Deg 8 PM (415) 647-8147 Thelema Ldg
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7/21/90 John Dee's birthday and Eclipse (415) 647-8147 Thelema Ldg
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party, afternoon until ?
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7/22/90 Gnostic Mass at Sunset (415) 647-8147 Thelema Ldg
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7/23/90 Secret meeting
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7/25/90 History Class 7PM (location TBA) (415) 647-8147 Nefertiti Cmp
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7/26/90 Thelema Lodge Meeting 8 PM (415) 647-8147 Thelema Ldg
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7/27/90 Intro. to Trance with Mordecai 8PM (415) 647-8147 Thelema Ldg
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7/29/90 Leo Birthday party 4:18 PM (415) 647-8147 Thelema Ldg
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7/29/90 Gnostic Mass at Sunset (415) 647-8147 Thelema Ldg
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8/3/90 Initiations Workshop Zero Deg 8 PM (415) 647-8147 Thelema Ldg
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8/4/90 Lamas Bash (details later) (415) 647-8147 Thelema Ldg
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8/5/90 Gnostic Mass at Sunset (415) 647-8147 Thelema Ldg
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8/10/90 Rites of Eleusis organization meet. (415) 647-8147 Thelema Ldg
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8/12/90 Gnostic Mass at Sunset (415) 647-8147 Thelema Ldg
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8/12/90 Feast of the Beast and his Bride (415) 647-8147 Thelema Ldg
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8/15/90 Magick & Qabalah # 5 with Bill 8 PM (415) 454-5176 Thelema Ldg
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8/17/90 Initiations Workshop 3rd Deg 8 PM (415) 647-8147 Thelema Ldg
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8/19/90 Gnostic Mass & Lodge Cleanup Sunset (415) 647-8147 Thelema Ldg
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8/22/90 Magick & Qabalah # 6 with Bill 8 PM (415) 454-5176 Thelema Ldg
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8/23/90 Secret meeting
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8/26/90 Virgo Birthday party 4:18 PM (415) 647-8147 Thelema Ldg
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8/26/90 Gnostic Mass at Sunset (415) 647-8147 Thelema Ldg
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8/29/90 History Class at Horus Temple 7PM (415) 647-8147 Nefertiti cmp
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8/30/90 Thelema Lodge Meeting 8 PM (415) 647-8147 Thelema Ldg
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8/31/90 Initiations Workshop 2nd Deg 8 PM (415) 647-8147 Thelema Ldg
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THELEMA LODGE TREASURY REPORT
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In an attempt to organize the financial records of Thelema Lodge, I
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accepted the job of Lodge Treasurer. Beginning with May 1, 1990 e.v. I
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categorized the monies according to the following:
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MAY JUNE
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in out in out
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Masses $107.55 $20.00 $77.94 0
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Classes/Meetings $134.02 0 $55.05 0
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Donations/Benefits $569.00 0 0 0
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Initiations 0 0 0 0
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House Debt $790.57 $100.00
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This is a summary of the monies handled by myself on behalf of the Lodge.
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Many thanx to all those individuals who donated so graciously during the month
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of May -- we could not have kept the house without your enormous assistance.
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On a more somber note, I feel it is my duty to inform the community of
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the current financial status of the Lodge. At this time both the electricity
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and the temple phone at 588 63rd St. (downstairs) are still disconnected. To
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reconnect P G & E will cost $619.38 ($509.38 past due and $110 deposit). Pac
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Bell says it will take $290.00 to reconnect the phone line. In addition to
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this, the Landlord claims $4,050.00 in back rent (for entire house).
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Needless to say, we still need MONEY!!!!! All activities are
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continuing to occur at the Lodge. Please remember to donate to each one you
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attend. We also will be hosting fun(d)raiser dinners and special events on a
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monthly basis. Any ideas of how to raise monies will be greatly appreciated!
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June 23, 1990 e.v. Marlene Smith
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Three Poems from The Grady Project:
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Rust
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Nails, red scales
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Crust on crust;
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Ashes to ashes
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Dust to dust.
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(undated)
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The Mass
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A slashing knife, and thick red blood,
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Across your breast a weal of stain;
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White are your limbs and white the pain
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Of ecstasy, and earth, and rain.
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(2/12/1942 e.v.)
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Blind Horus
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Mother Medusa of the solar wind
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Lion paw and lambent thigh
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Love-lightning playing in your hair
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Has blinded me, and I am thine.
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Mother Medusa, lion cubs
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Come tumbling through your amber dream.
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I hear your purr with throat of iron
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And your growl in the slap of thunder.
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(2/19/1972 e.v.)
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[these poems were first printed in the second "Grady Project" pamphlet
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(December 1987 e.v.]
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Orator's 'ration.
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Every month the Thelema Lodge Calendar will try to bring you the text of at
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least one lecture which has been previously delivered by the Orator of Thelema
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Lodge's Grady L. McMurtry Lodge of Perfection. Of course it goes without
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saying that those lectures which deal with O.T.O. initiations in a specific
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rather than general manner will not be printed. Still, it is hoped that our
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brethren of all grades will enjoy these L.o.P.sided bits of opinion!:
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RESURRECTION AND THE AFTERLIFE
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The worship and the ritual of Ordo Templi Orientis are solar-phallic in
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nature. This fact can be quite easily seen in the Man of Earth series of
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degrees. The life of the sun, the life of man, and the life of the spirit,
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are all three described in one set of mythic enactments proceeding from
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Minerval through Perfect Initiate.
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First, the primeval solar dustcloud condenses, sperm and egg converge
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embryonically, the goal is glimpsed and the possibility of a path to it
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perceived. But just as many of the galaxy's dustclouds are below the critical
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mass for thermonuclear ignition, and many fertilized ova never attain infancy,
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and many mystics never find bliss, so also many Minervals never take Io (the
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percentage has probably increased since the removal of the nine month waiting
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period, but a more relevant statistic in judging that change in policy would
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be in whether the percentage of Io's who remain active members has increased
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or declined. Perhaps our illustrious G.T.G. will compile the relevant stats
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someday!) (I did. They declined. Short Minerval to Ist Degrees tend to leave
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or stay at about the rate of normal Minerval attrition. This is from two to
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three times normal attrition for Ist Degrees taken nine or more months after
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Minerval --- GTG).
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The next stage of initiation represents the ignition of the sun, its first
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dawning over the proto-Earth, and hence each new dawning ever since. It also
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represents the physical birth of a child, as well as the dedication of oneself
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to recommence travel upon the path which leads to one's goal.
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The IIo may be likened to the sun in its full force and vigor during that
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95%+ of its existence which is spent in the main sequence; it is the sun which
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we experience on the Equator at noon of the Equinox. In human life it
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symbolizes that era when offspring are produced, both actual children and
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mental, moral, and social constructs. For the magician it represents the
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complete theoretical basis of magick with, however, little in the way of
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practical instruction. As Crowley says in Magick Without Tears, "All
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subsequent [to P.I.] Degrees of the O.T.O. are accordingly elaborations of the
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IIo, since in a single ceremony it is hardly possible to sketch, even in the
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briefest outline, the Teaching of Initiates with regard to Life. The Rituals
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Vo-IXo are then instructions to the Candidate how he should conduct himself;
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and they confer upon him, gradually, the Magical Secrets which make him Master
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of Life."
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In Liber CXCIV Baphomet describes the three Triads as three distinct
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degrees of O.T.O., and he further illustrates this principle by showing that
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the Third Triad, the Man of Earth series, is itself three distinct degrees.
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This triune pattern is further reduplicated by the third Man of Earth "degree"
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which is made up of IIIo, IVo, and Prince of Jerusalem. Here the analogy to
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stellar, human, and spiritual life becomes more complicated. Stars of
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different masses and compositions may have diverse ways of ending their
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existences. In general, once the vast hydrogen fusion fuel is nearing its
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depletion the fusion of the resulting helium into yet heavier elements begins.
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A star's balance of forces changes and it begins to expand rapidly. In
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systems with habitable planets the oceans boil, atmospheres are stripped, and
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all life is extinguished. In the case of smaller stars, like our sun, the
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expansion is followed by contraction to white dwarf status. Seen from the
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frozen surface of dead Earth, the Sun will just be a bright star that
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eventually fades to a burnt-out cinder. Here the black mass of the Solar
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system represents the IIIo, which finds its eventual resurrection when the
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dust and gases lost during the contraction join the cosmic swirl to condense
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into a new generation of suns.
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Some of the more massive stars than our sun will experience the phase of
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contraction so violently that they implode and the resulting explosion is a
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supernova which leaves behind a nebula of glowing gases with a neutron star of
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incredibly dense matter somewhere in the middle. Here the magnificent
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explosion represents the exaltation of the IVo, which has resurrected itself
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by its massive ejection of dust and gas, and which leaves behind a tiny X-ray
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beacon that perhaps will burn until its eventual annihilation in the galactic
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black hole.
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Those stars which are yet even more massive will experience the ultimate
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fate. First they will contract, shedding some spermlike gas and dust to be
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resurrected in new stars. But when these massive stars reach the stage of
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implosion the forces of gravity are too great to be overcome, and the unshed
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matter continues to contract, past the point of the neutron star left by a IVo
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supernova, into the perfect annihilation of a black hole. Of course the final
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outcome for every star in the galaxy may be annihilation in the galaxy's
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eventual collapse, so that ultimately there may be no difference between IIIo-
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, IVo-, and Prince of Jerusalem-type stars.
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In human life this trinity of degrees describes the duality of mortality
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and immortality as a unity, which is actually nullity. The bodies of IIIo
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human beings die and decay, but yet they live on in generations of new people
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or, at least, worms. The IVo individuals find immortality by heroic
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achievement. They impress the shapes of their wills upon their circumstances,
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thus shaping the future itself. Newton needs no biological descendants to be
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called a father of the world we live in. This would seem to support the view
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that the indefeasible right to be initiated extends only up to IIIo itself.
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Certainly not all of humanity is engaged in heroic achievement. The P.I.'s
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immortality lies beyond even the exalted glory of Tiphereth, for it lives in
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the Abyss which annihilates all duality. Here the life of man and the life of
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the spirit completely coincide. As a stage of spiritual development, the IIIo
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represented magical mastery of the astral environment, while the IVo created
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by this mastery an indestructible body of light. The Prince of Jerusalem uses
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this body for samadhi until he achieves complete identification with
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nonexistence, from which time he wears the appearance of a Master of the
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Temple. These make up the Secret Chiefs, the geniuses who are the one genius
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that shapes all human history, bursting forth with Maguses whenever simple
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silence will not suffice.
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We are all indeed immortal, but the vast majority of us only achieve the
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IIIo-type of immortality. Does that mean that IVo and P.I. initiations are
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wasted on most of us? that they are intended to produce "instant" Adepts and
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Mages? It certainly does not. This unit of three degrees is yet one more
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recapitulation of a formula which is continued with subtle variety throughout
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the entire Order. To learn this formula that leads across the Abyss may
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require lifetimes of repetition, much less be learned from one small series of
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initiations. The Three Triads themselves declare the manly Iacchus, lovely
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Asi, and silent Orus. All of the following sequences, and more, display the
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formula on a degree level: 0o/Io/IIo; IIIo/IVo/P.I.; 0-Io/IIo/III-IVo-P.I.;
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Vo/K.R.E./VIo; G.I.C./P.R.S./VIIo; Vo-K.R.E./VIo-G.I.C./P.R.S.-VIIo;
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VIIIo(P.P.I.)/VIIIo(P.E.I.)/IXo; Xo/XIo/O.H.O.; VIIIo/IX-X-XIo/O.H.O.
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Thus the one Order exists as three degrees or Triads, and each Triad
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contains three sets of three degree sequences. Top it off with the sequence
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0o/K.E.W./O.H.O. and you'll still find that each degree, at least as far as
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Knight of the Red Eagle (I probably shouldn't comment on initiations I haven't
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yet and may never undergo), contains further recapitulations of the same
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formula of IAO. This would be quite exciting in itself, but the truly
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remarkable fact is that the O.T.O.'s system may accommodate any formula
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whatsoever. The following is offered by way of illustration:
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A-0o
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B-I/II/IIIo Man of Earth Triad
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R-IVo
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A-P.I.
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H-Vo/K.R.E.
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A-VIo/G.I.C. Lover Triad
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D-P.R.S./VIIo
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A-VIIIo
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B-IX/XIo
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R-Xo Hermit Triad
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A-O.H.O.
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Or in other words:
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Wisdom at play is shrouded by the holy spirit,
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and the mother of the holy spirit is its wife;
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wisdom at play is shrouded by the holy spirit.
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-- Frater Faustus
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ENOCHIAN OFFER:
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Materials Pertaining to the Study of TEX
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THE THIRTIETH AETHYR IN THE ENOCHIAN SYSTEM OF JOHN DEE AND EDWARD KELLEY
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AS RELATED BY ALEISTER CROWLEY IN THE VISION AND THE VOICE.
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This edition of "The Cry of the thirtieth Aethyr" (the first chapter of "The
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Vision and the Voice
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" includes the original text, all of Crowley's commentary, and additional
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material tracing and deciphering references in both the vision and the
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commentary.
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Send $4.50 per copy plus $1.50 postage for one and $.50 for each additional
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copy to MAKHASHANAH PUBLISHING
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536 41st Street, No. 22
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Oakland, CA 94609
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All profits to benefit Thelema Lodge.
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The Trance Class
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Omigod! no! it's an introduction to An Introduction To Trance!
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On your July calendar you will notice in the 27's square something called
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"An Introduction To Trance" probably with my name attached. This is not a
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class in which you will be taught the wisdom of Qabalah, or the art of Magick,
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or the beauty of Truth. Fortunately for Thelema Lodge there are plenty of
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folks around here more qualified than the current Lodge Master to teach these
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things. In fact, until becoming Lodge Master I was able to avoid teaching a
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class because there was always someone better able to do it than I. That fact
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hasn't changed, but as Lodge Master I do feel a certain responsibility to pad
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out the calendar! So instead of a class I shall put on a "neoclass"; I refuse
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to acknowledge the possibility of being anyone's teacher, except in the most
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accidental sense. However, power being the kind of fun it can be, I will
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certainly take my seat along with you as the most domineering and tyrannical
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of all the students present.
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Aleister Crowley wrote a book called "Little Essays Toward Truth" which
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might teach you far more about trance than you can learn anywhere else. What
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I propose to do is explore a multitude of techniques to induce trance,
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mantras, breathing, relaxation, music, dance, even friendly chatter! Because
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the nature of trance is such that it may sometimes produce disorienting,
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confusing, even so-called "bad" experiences, we must create some special
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conditions for this "neoclass". First of all, people have to come with
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certain expectations. They have to expect everything in general, and nothing
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in particular. They must not expect to achieve anything on their list of
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personal ambitions beyond this one: expect to accept that whatever happens,
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happens. That is an expectation which challenges all of us; dare we accept
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the challenge? Secondly, on the practical level of protecting both the group
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and the individual wills at the same time, no one will be allowed to enter
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after the session begins; however, everyone who is already inside (including
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me) is free to leave at whatever moment they will. The original meaning of
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the word 'trance' was the transition (or passage) from life to death. In this
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sense it was applied to "a state of extreme apprehension or dread" [O.E.D.],
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and thence to the cataleptic state of extreme "attention" or "inattention"
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which we all lapse in and out of all the time, but which when produced
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intentionally for specific purposes has been the basis of all so-called
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"spiritual phenomena". So if we start a new religion, nobody should be
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surprised!
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--- Mordecai
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Presenting a song lyric without the music, that is,
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THE HALF LYRE:
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EMPTY-HEADED ATHENIANS
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This is a song about Socrates
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A man who asked a lot of questions
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He didn't care about the dieties
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or the politics of indiscretion
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He just sat back and drank the poison
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He had a interest in Philosophy
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but all he brought to it were questions
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Could he be the only one to see
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that all the answers are reflections?
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The answer of the State was poison
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Boys of Athens, gathered round his feet,
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with whom he traded tricky questions
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they didn't learn to hate the liberty
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that so frightens politicians
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They had to watch their friend drink poison
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The moral of this story is:
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Don't ask a lot of questions
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It's too annoying to society
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if you ask so many questions
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Unless you dare to drink the poison
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LODGE MEMBERSHIP CRITERIA
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The U.S. O.T.O. Electoral College requires an annual report from every
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official body of the Order's Man of Earth Triad in the United States. Last
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year's report form asked for both a list of members and the criteria by which
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the local body determines its membership. Since there aren't too many hard
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and fast rules on lodge, oasis, or camp membership I'm sure that the Electoral
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College got a lot of interesting replies to those questions, and since they'll
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likely never publish the results of their inquiries I'm free to fantasize
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about some groups with membership criteria like:
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- Every O.T.O. member of a "lower degree than me" living within a
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hundred miles, unless I'm punishing them by telling everyone else that "they
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are NOT a member!"
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- Adepts only.
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- Magistri Templi only!
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- All [blank] in the area (fill in the blank with whatever your
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preference, women, men, Masonic enthusiasts, computer nerds, left-handed
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beekeeping Satanists, ad nauseum).
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Still, serious questions are raised by the attempt to define criteria for
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local O.T.O. body membership. The Masonic tradition has strict rules about
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each member belonging to a specific lodge, and protocols of interaction
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between members of different groups. Happily, O.T.O. has avoided these
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ironclad distinctions that seem so often to lead to nothing but factionalism
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and suspicion. Many O.T.O. groups have operated for many years with a
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tradition of true hospitality to members who are visiting or relocating from
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another area of the country or world.
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The Thelema Lodge tradition (as a local lodge) seems to have been vaguely
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to accord membership status to any O.T.O. comrade who participates in lodge
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activities. Certainly this is far, far better than playing at immature ego
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games, abstract ideologies, and social cliques! However, while such a policy
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does not fan the fires of discord and discontent, it is also not much good at
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mobilizing the lodge's single greatest positive resource: the enthusiastic
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committment of local O.T.O. members.
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In an attempt to remedy this situation I have suggested the institution of
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local lodge dues in the amount of five dollars per month. Most of the people
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I talked to about the idea were supportive, some even profuse with intentions
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to become a paying member. But the astute criticisms of a few people awakened
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me a certain dilemma inherent in the issue of local lodge membership dues: how
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do you define the privileges of membership in such a way as to give people an
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incentive to join, and yet not rule out the positive participation of O.T.O.
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members and others who can't or won't pay Thelema Lodge's local dues? A
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policy which defines most of the lodge's activities as "members only" and
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exhorts everyone to prove their committment with their pocketbooks would
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doubtless alienate many people while winning the vociferous approval of every
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well-heeled pompous ass in Mr. Crowley's Neighborhood. On the other hand, to
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ask people for five dollars a month just to buy the empty status of a "lodge
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member" means that eventually even the seekers of empty status will get fed
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up, and what could have been a source of both revenues and motivation becomes
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yet another ambitious memory.
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In trying to strike a balance between these two extremes I wanted to find a
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solution which would: (a) not affect in any way the present opportunities for
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non-initiates to participate in the lodge's public functions (masses, classes,
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etc.), and, (b) not create any more secrecy and elitism than that which our
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Masonic forefathers have already amply bequeathed to us in our patulous
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hierarchy of degrees and triads.
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Therefore no one will be barred from any event which they might otherwise
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have attended just because they are not paying local lodge dues. Dues
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payments will not be a condition of participation in any activity except in
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some specific lodge government and initiation procedures. To wit, all lodge
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officers must be members, and all initiation officers, even in rehearsals,
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must be members (except for visiting Order dignitaries). Five hours of work
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for the lodge (properly attested to the satisfaction of the Lodge Treasury
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Clerk) may be substituted for payment of a month's dues. Rent-paying tenants
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of the Abbey are considered to be lodge members without any additional
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payments. All officers of Agape Grand Lodge are exempt from the payment of
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Thelema Lodge's local dues. Dues collection will begin in July, by means to
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be determined at the June 28 lodge meeting.
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--- TLM
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From the Out Basket
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This month we present a reprint of a page from the "Magic(k)al Link" of
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August 1984 e.v. On the next page you will find a copy of the arrest paper of
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Brother Karl Germer by the Nazi Gestapol. Those (few) who wonder why we were
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so upset at the Berkeley PD raid last September may perhaps understand from
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this commented document. Fr. Saturnus was arrested by the Nazis for being in
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touch with Crowley. Thelema Lodge was raided without cause simply because of
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religious prejudice and inadequate investigation. --- TSG
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<Note to the electronic edition: The document in question cannot be
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reproduced in this fashion. What follows here is a transcription in two
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parts: 1. the comment that was added on the blank portion in the 1984
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publication. 2. a transcript of the German original>
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<1. 1984 commentary>
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Thelemites of today, mark this document closely. It is the paper of arrest
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and commitment of our Brother Karl Germer to a Nazi Concentration Camp on Feb.
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13, 1935 e.v. on the Grounds (Grunde) of having continued communication with
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Aleister Crowley (Identified as a Highgrade Freemason --- Hochgradfreimaurer)
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and for seeking students for his teachings!
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Brother Germer was transferred to Esterwegen, another concentration camp,
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somewhat later. Through the efforts of his wife and the American Council, he
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was released and allowed to flee to Belgium.
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In the months ahead you may perhaps learn some negative things about our
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former Frater Superior, how he forced the Order to near death by not
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initiating and by hiding every open reference to the Order in the public eye.
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Whatever you hear or have heard, remember that Karl Germer, Frater
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Saturnus, was a martyr to Thelema. He suffered greatly for his stand in
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Thelema. If this arrest had come two years later; he would have died in the
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terrible immolation of the haters of freedom and Gnosis.
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Know that this can happen anywhere.
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Knowing that, take heart. Brother Karl survived the terrible persecution
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of our Order, and if the worst happens, others can survive as well. Unlike
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Brother Karl, you live in a time of many Thelemites. If you find yourself in
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captivity or subject to persecution for your beliefs, you will not be
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abandoned.
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<2. transcript of the 1935 document>
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Geheimes Staatspolizeiamt Berlin Srd 11, den 13. Februar 1935
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D.Rr II 1 B 2 -62725/1585 Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse 8
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Dri Audoniwort Here enjugeben<?> ... 18/2 Nachts
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in der Selle in gefing...<?>
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An den
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Schriftsteller Karl Johannes Germer,
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Konzentrationslager Columbia,
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Gegen Behandigungeschein.
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Auf Grund des <section> 1 der VO. des Herren Reichs-
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prasidenten zum Schutz von Volk und Staat vom
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28.2.1833 (RGBl.1 8.83) ordne ich hiermit gegen
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Sie die Schutzhaft bis auf weiteres an.
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Grunde:
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Sie haben durch die standige Verbindung
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mit dem in Ausland lebenden Hochgradfreimaurer
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Crowley dissen staatsfeindliche Umtriebe unter-
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stutzt und durch die Verbreitung seiner Lehre
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Versucht, in Deutschland Anhanger fur ihn zu wer-
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ben.
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In Vertretung
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gez.: F l e s c h.
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<seal> Beglaubigt:
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<signature>
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Kunzleiangestellte.
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July 1990 e.v. at Thelema Lodge
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with ample warning for August
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Welcome to the dog daze . . . R U Sirius? Gnostic Mass each Sunday just
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after sunset (@8:30pm as I write) and there are no variations on the XV theme
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yet...There's also a Brocken Mountain Mass at 9:30 pm Friday July 13th in
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Horus Temple - "Third Degrees and Above/Know your psuedoMasonic Hand-Jive!"
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LodgeMeeting will be the Last Thursday of each month - 8 pm July 26th for
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September's events and other business: also, every third Sunday afternoon is
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Lodge Cleanup day; see you on the 15th about 2:22 pm.
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Bill's Magick and Qabalah series continues with Ceremonial Magick on July
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11th at Thelema Lodge and a Natural Magick field trip to Mt. Tam in Marin
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County on Saturday the 14th of July. The July field trip will start at 5
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Suffield Ave., in San Anselmo, at 10 AM, with departure to Mt. Tam by 11:30
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AM. Wear old clothes, good walking shoes with two pairs of socks and be
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prepared for sun protection. Call (415) 454-5178 in early July for details.
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The Lodgemaster's Initiations workshop will continue at 8 pm on 7/6
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(Second Degree) and 7/20 (Third Degree) in Horus Temple for all who want to
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learn how to perform Initiations, or just to practice. Mordecai will start
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again with Minerval August 3rd.
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"Intro to Trance" with Mordecai on July 27 at 8 pm (see description
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elsewhere in this issue.
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Hypatia Camp hosts a "Chinese Attributions for 777" seminar on the 5th -
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Nefertiti Camp's History class continues on the 25th - both events at 7:30 pm
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in Horus Temple.
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The Magick Theater reads Crowley's ritual drama "Household Gods" in Horus
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Temple starting at 7:30 on Tuesday, July 17. Copies of this rare work--one of
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his most directly erotic literary efforts, written in Italy in 1911 e.v.--will
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be available to readers and auditors.
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(ahem) I now realise that the Honourable Doctor John Dee's Birthday is
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July 13th, Julian calendar - but we'll celebrate on July 21st along with the
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Solar Eclipse. Bring things relating to my favourite Saint: starting about 5
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until ? with a possible demo @ 93'o-clock... and there's a Leo Birthday Bash
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at 4:18 on the 29th for all the Lions (even those most like pussycats)...look
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out for LAMMAS in the first week of August.
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- C -
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July 1990 Thelema Lodge Calendar/Newsletter (July and August events)
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Mailed free within 100 miles of San Francisco California
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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: Lodge Master: (415) 647-8147
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Messages only: (415) 454-5176
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Compuserve: 72105,1351
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Please feel free to forward this file to any BBS willing to take it
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