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March-April 1990 Thelema Lodge Calendar/Newsletter (April and 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, 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 April 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: 590 63rd St.
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Oakland, California
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(Entrance in back, to the right)
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Phones: Lodge/Temple: (415) 655-4942
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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 1990 to May
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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. If you wait until the last
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minute, the phone might not be working.
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Date: Description: Contact: Sponsor:
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4/1/90 DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME BEGINS ---- government
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SPRING AHEAD 1 HOUR
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4/1/90 Jurgenmass 8 PM (415) 655-4942 Thelema Ldg
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4/3/90 Thelema Lodge Meeting 8 PM (415) 655-4942 Thelema Ldg
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4/7/90 Minerval initiations at Midnight (415) 655-4942 Thelema Ldg
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4/8/90 Liber AL Day #1 1st Chapter and (415) 655-4942 Thelema Ldg
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Mass at the Lodge. Reading 8 PM
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4/9/90 Liber AL Day #2 2nd Chapter and (415) 655-4942 Ancient Ways
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Reading 8PM at Ancient Ways Store
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4/10/90 Liber AL Day #3 3rd Chapter and (415) 655-4942 Thelema Ldg
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Reading at 924 Gilman St., 8PM
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4/11/90 Qabalah #8: 8 PM with Bill (415) 655-4942 Thelema Ldg
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4/15/90 Gnostic Mass 8 PM (415) 655-4942 Thelema Ldg
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4/17/90 Enochiana with Dave 7:30 PM (415) 655-4942 Thelema Ldg
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Sigilum Dei Aemeth Part IIII
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4/18/90 Qabalah #9: 8 PM with Bill (415) 655-4942 Thelema Ldg
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4/19/90 Rose-Croix & Lodge of Perfection Mt. ---- R+C & LOP
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4/21/90 Ist and IInd Deg. Initiations (415) 655-4942 Thelema Ldg
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4/22/90 Gnostic Mass 8 PM (415) 655-4942 Thelema Ldg
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4/23/90 "Secret Meeting"
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4/24/90 Enochiana with Dave 7:30 PM (415) 655-4942 Thelema Ldg
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Sigilum Dei Aemeth Part V.
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4/25/90 History "Lection" 8 PM at Horus Temp.(415) 655-4942 Nefertiti Cmp
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4/29/90 Taurus Birthday Party 4:18 PM (415) 655-4942 Thelema Ldg
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4/29/90 Aethyrmass 8 PM (415) 655-4942 Thelema Ldg
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5/1/90 Thelema Lodge Meeting 8 PM (415) 655-4942 Thelema Ldg
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5/5/90 Beltaine-by-the Sea (415) 655-4942 Thelema Ldg
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5/6/90 Gnostic Mass at Sunset (415) 655-4942 Thelema Ldg
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5/8/90 Enochiana with Dave 7:30 PM (415) 655-4942 Thelema Ldg
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Sigillum Dei Aemeth part VI
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5/12/90 Minerval & IIIrd Deg. initiations (415) 655-4942 Thelema Ldg
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5/13/90 Gnostic Mass at Sunset (415) 655-4942 Thelema Ldg
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5/15/90 Enochiana with Dave 7:30 PM (415) 655-4942 Thelema Ldg
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Sigillum Dei Aemeth part VII
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5/16/90 Qabalah #10: 8 PM with Bill (415) 655-4942 Thelema Ldg
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(end of series)
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5/17/90 Lodge of Perfection (415) 655-4942 LoP
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5/20/90 Gnostic Mass at Sunset (415) 655-4942 Thelema Ldg
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5/22/90 "An Overview of Enneagram Literature (415) 655-4942 Thelema Ldg
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at the Lodge" with Michael 7:30 PM
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5/27/90 Gemini Birthday party 4:18 PM (415) 655-4942 Thelema Ldg
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5/27/90 Gnostic Mass at Sunset (415) 655-4942 Thelema Ldg
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from the Grady Project:
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A M U C K!
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When out the misty future clears
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The written history of the years,
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Across those scrolling pages laced
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The fury of our storm is traced
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In burnished gold, for from the walls
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Of mighty Karnak's carven halls
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Shrill silvery bugles sound the charge!
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Come, Soldier-Priests of ancient Tharge
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Arise ye Templars of the Graal
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Send forth the ringing challenge: Hail
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The rebirth of the Laws of Pan
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Reclaim your heritage and span
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The waiting world. That which effaced
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Our holy cause must be erased
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With fiery sword and lifted rod
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The mystic symbol of our God!
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And when the dawn proclaims the day
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Then may the crawling Christians pray.
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Thus it came that as the aeons crept or fled the spirit grew;
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Out of elemental substance foamed the hot and potent brew.
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Foamed and spewed in theurgic rhythm, roared a thundering litany;
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Molded from its psychic forces our enshrined epiphany!
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Stood our pantheon incarnate vesting full the Will of Man,
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Glowing in its royal splendor, filling the imperial plan.
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Brooded then within the mountains,
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From the park, between the fountains
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Came a cyclone funnel roiling,
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Holy, sacred Nago coiling
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Rearing high the hydra hood
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Which sign and token of the Rood
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Guards with his canopy the Priest,
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Our Lord of Lords, our King--THE BEAST!
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Now our champion before us
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Striking in the sight of Horus
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Down into the valley swinging;
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With a surging timbre ringing
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Bright battle axe and arching sword
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Slash in and through the serried hoard
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Of those who thought to bound their hope
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Within their own small meagre scope.
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Hooves of thunder are a pealing
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Roll as back they stagger reeling
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From the black mailed Knights of Heiro,
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Adepts of the station zero,
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Sit their steeds of mighty thew
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Swing out and then come shearing through
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To criss and cross behind these cattle
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Stampeding from the shock of battle!
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So mote it be!
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Ho the rebels
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Hail the carnage,
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See the piles of stinking slain
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Where the Christians met their Masters
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South of Ulan, on the plain.
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So in triumphal procession march the Lords of Karnak back
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Tie their wounds and burn their dead before their bloody arms they stack.
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As in wild and joyous revelry carillon and cymbals ring
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Giving homage to our chosen Gods and glory to our King.
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For on the littered plain this day was cleared an ancient wrong
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The infidels were made to pay and yield unto the strong.
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Yea, ruthless as the cleansing sea we crush the Christian might
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And now they lie enslaved before our revered Gods of Night!
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What mortal man can do to Man they did unto our sires
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But we, immortal, gathered strength from sacrificial fires.
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Reincarnated stand the host that bridged the gulfs of time
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Avenging what the Church of Rome had poisoned in its prime!
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We honored not a craven slave
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But followed one who deigned to brave
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And tread the curving, star strewn path
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Beyond our universe, the wrath
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Of Chaos slumbered, to our sight
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The darkness sheds eternal light.
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Now to the joyous sacrifice
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As cringing heathens pay the price
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By dozens and by hetacomb
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They taste the justice that was Rome
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Upon our altars, as we feast
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And give ovation to the Priest
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Whose slashing knife unstops a flood
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Of living, heady, salted blood
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To overflow the hallowed cup
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The Chalice held that we may sup
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The symbol of eternity;
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Our union, our fraternity
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Of mind and body, soul and thought:
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Our one is all, our ALL is nought!
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--Grady Louis McMurtry
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(undated)
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(first published in "The Grady Project" #2, December 1987 e.v.)
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BELTAIN EVENT
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The Magick Theater of Santa Cruz celebrates Spring by the ocean at
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B E L T A N E
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bonfire for Lucifer (# see note) the King of Spring!
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Sun 15 degrees Taurus, Saturday 5 May anno IIIxx --- feast, maypole and ritual
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on the beach noon until midnight --- contact Thelema Lodge for directions ---
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bring food & drink.
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# "Lucifer" --- Not to be confused with the Christian deity of the same name.
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Many Latin scholars have a certain disquietude over the use of "Lucifer",
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"Lightbearer" as a name for the Christian Devil. Some Renaissance writers
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replaced this term with "Lucifuge", "Lightfearer". In the context here,
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"Lucifer" signifies all deities of rebirth, renewal and especially light:
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Lugh, Ahuramazda, Prometheus, Marduk, Be'al, Persephone, Sophia, Venus,
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Osiris, Jehovah and the ancient concept of Christ. Sadly, over the centuries
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many Christians have taken to worshiping their "Devil" under the name of
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"Jesus" and denouncing their "Christ" under the name of "Lucifer". After
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bearing false witness against the beliefs of others so long, these misguided
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people have come to attribute the doings of their "devil" to their "saviour"
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and the deeds of their "Jesus" to those of their "Lord of Lies". To break one
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commandment is to break all of them sooner or later. To bear false witness
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against the deities of others is to blaspheme one's own. --- Editor.
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From Raid to Litigation
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O.T.O. and eight individual plaintiffs have filed a complaint with the City
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of Berkeley for damages in the aftermath of the infamous September raid.
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Donations to the Legal Fund are needed.
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All previous donations to date have been used in the early phases of the
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case. Please make out checks to "O.T.O." and mail with a note that the
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purpose is for the "Legal Fund" to:
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Treasurer General
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Ordo Templi Orientis
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P.O.Box 430
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Fairfax, CA 94930 USA
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From the Out Basket
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Here is a series of visualizations inspired by the Qabalah of Light developed
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in the 16th century by Isaac Luria. For further information on this approach,
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see "The Kabbalah a Study of the Ten Luminous Emanations from Rabbi Isaac
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Luria", by Rabbi Yehuda L. Ashlag, translated into English by R. Levi
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Krakovsky, two volumes, 1969 and 1973, Research Centre of Kabbalah, The Old
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City, Jerusalem, Israel. The presentation which follows is adapted from the
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Tarot classes of Bill Heidrick. Copyright (c) Bill Heidrick.
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This is a Qabalistic way of seeing the creation of the universe and the
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beginning of all things. In it light is spoken of as though light were the
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essence of the Creator. This is necessary so that the human mind have
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something to fasten on, not because light or any other perceivable thing is
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truly the essence of the Most High.
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Let your mind calm itself. Send away all the cares of the day, dispatch
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all your concerns from their inmost places. Relax even the feelings of self
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and ego a little. For this is the place where such things had not yet come
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into being.
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Close your eyes and let a vision of warm and featureless light come upon
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you. In all directions there is a soft glow of brilliant light. Even the
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idea of direction is meaningless, for only the limitless light exists. Hold
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that for a bit.
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Within the vastness of the limitless light there is a sense of glowing.
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This is not separate but it is tangible. Light is about you like a thickness
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in the air. Soft and calm, bright and warm.
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Within the light a feeling of imminence grows. There is no change yet,
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but you feel that a change must occur. The light is featureless but it is
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about to move.
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Within you builds a feeling that something must be changed. It is not
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enough to be in a place of perfect limitless light. There must be difference.
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There must be a place within the infinite different from all else yet still of
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the infinite.
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The limitless light changes. Far off there is no change, the light
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extends away in featureless brilliance. Within you the light gathers to a
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greater brilliance, near about you the light dims. At the center of your
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being the light forms a brilliant smooth point of radiance while all the
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nearby light seems to flow in toward the center.
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When the point is firmly glowing within, there is an established darkness
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about you. Far off there is a great and distant shore of light, as bright as
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it was before the beginning of the universe.
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Thus is the universe begun, a point of self and being concentrated in the
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center, about the point a great expanse of outside and something else. Far
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away, a great sphere of light that is as true as the point within and as
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limitless as the beginning. This is the circle with a point inside, the
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symbol of the invisible sun and of Keter on the Tree of Life.
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Parallel in Human Thought:
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When we are fully involved in doing, working and resting, it is as though
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there is no boundary between the world and the self. The trees bend their
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leaves to the same breeze that blows throughout all the world and moves the
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hair upon the head. This is the moment before creation. When something
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disturbs our revere, consciousness pulls back from oneness with the world and
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hides behind the eyes. Then the world with it's people, places and things is
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outside and the self is inside. Somewhere beyond what we see there is a
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knowing that all the world is one place, and we are one with it forever. Yet
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those things about us are separate seeming and perhaps even dangerous to the
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precious spark of ego that hides like a bright point behind the eyes.
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-oOo-
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Let yourself relax. Return to a peaceful state. In the center of your
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being there is a bright point of pure brilliant light. About you is darkness,
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featureless darkness. At a great distance from you is a vast and perfect
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light like the point at your center. This is the form of pure existence,
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light gathered in a single point from surrounding space with infinite,
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limitless light beyond. The circle with a point at its center, the sphere of
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existence with the focus of the existing one at its center. Hold that image
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about yourself.
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From the distant and limitless light above you a single beam of light
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begins to descend down toward the point of brilliance within you.
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The beam becomes a line of light, slowly crossing the darkness toward
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you. You can see it now, approaching you from above, carrying with it a
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contact to the limitless light from before the beginning, from the eternity
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before the point of light that is your particular existence became separate
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from the vastness of the limitless light.
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The line of light touches the point of light and stops its evolution
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downward.
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You were alone in the silence. Now you are linked with the eternal light
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by a single line of light.
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All the essence of all that can ever be is drawn into that line of light
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from the head of it, the place where it emerges from the limitless light so
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far away. All that you shall ever know descends to you by that single
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brilliant chord across the vastness of the silence, the silence that was left
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behind when the light that it contained drew together into the point of
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brilliance that is you.
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The light of the line from infinity descends no farther. It is a touch
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of the All Existing that reaches only into you to embrace only you, to
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establish for you one path from the beginning infinite to the ending infinite
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that is your particular existence.
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This is the image of the great Sephira Chokmah on the Tree of Life, a
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vast sphere beyond which there is endless and undifferentiated light. A point
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of brilliance at the center of that sphere. A line of the same brilliant
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light, a radius to the sphere drawn from above to the center point.
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Parallel in Human Thought:
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At times we dwell in solitude and see the world as though it was a thing
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wholly other, a thing apart, not of the self. Yet somewhere beyond that world
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is the greatness that holds all, the totality of existence that is one with
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the world and the self. In answer to this need, in consolation of this
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aloneness, a single awareness sometimes descends from the highest hope in the
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infinite. This ray of Truth passes through the great void of the outside
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world, lighting by its passage all the highest things in that world, showing
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that all the world draws its nourishment from the same root as the self. This
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line of thought and inspiration, this moment of mystic insight reaches from
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the infinite to the inside of the self. At the moment of its touching there
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is no more loneliness. There is enlightenment in the void. And the void is
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void only by comparison to the light.
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-oOo-
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A point of light at your center, darkness all about you. At a great
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distance in all directions the same light that is concentrated at your center
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extends away to infinity. Hold that image.
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From above, a line of light descends toward the point of light at your
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center. Let that be the beginning of this meditation. Visualize the line of
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light as a thin beam reaching down from the luminous infinity far above.
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Within the line of light are strange shadows and brighter glowings.
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Patterns seem to appear and vanish inside it. Some of the patterns illuminate
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the darkness a little to either side and grant visions of other realities than
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your own.
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From dimly perceived images in the line of light, you form ideas and
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learn to see the elements of your own world. Below the bright point of light
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at your center is a vast darkness. Rays of light descend downward in
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imitation of the line of light. These gleamings are the efforts of your mind
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to penetrate the darkness. By their means the darkness is rendered less
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empty. One by one the glimmerings of thought find more and more tangible
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images in the darkness. The mind extends by stages of evolving awareness the
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patterns of the line of inspired light. These images grow with understanding,
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first being very dim, then having rational form, then becoming almost solid
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and at last having the appearance of matter. This is the way in which we
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learn about the outside. This is the beginning of discovery of form through
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exercise of Understanding.
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The gradual outward spread of that part of self called form and
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perception is the function of the Sephira Binah on the Tree of Life.
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Parallel in Human Thought:
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When a new idea comes into the mind by inspiration or more outward
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instruction, at first that idea lays dormant. In time other abstract
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expressions of the new idea are seen. Later the new idea becomes a principle
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by which truth is discovered in the world. The idea becomes a tool, a power
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to shape and change the details of life. Finally objects come to embody the
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idea, and what came first as a flash of awareness in the mind becomes in its
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turn a thing of the senses.
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-oOo-
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Four flames burn between heaven and earth. Four tongues of fire compose
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the Holy Name.
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Yod is a single radiant light in the darkness of beginning creation.
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From this light all knowledge radiates.
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Hay is a triple flame. One tongue of fire leaps upward. One tongue of
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fire burns across the sky. One small tongue of flame dances within the other
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two like the light in a lantern.
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Vau is an elongated flame seeking to dart upward.
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The last Hay is flame within flame, burning forever in the darkness.
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When the spirit of the Yod moved to create all things, it first darted
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three ways and formed the first Hay. This first Hay was like a window filled
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with too much light. The light grew until it burst open the window and sent
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sparks of ungraspable truth flashing into the night. The sparks are the stars
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in the sky and the unexpressed dreams of all who live in the world.
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Then the Yod extended itself gently downward. It formed the Vau with its
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careful light.
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The scattered sparks were gathered to form the second Hay after the
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pattern of the first.
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This second Hay became like a window with a curtain so that it could
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contain the light without burning the eyes of those who look to it for wisdom.
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The Vau gently entered the prepared place and illuminated the universe.
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Parallel in Human Thought:
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When we first discover something new, the light of the discovery often
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blazes up in ecstasy and impossible hopes. This is like the Yod burning too
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brightly in the first Hay. Soon the new discovery burns away the new hopes
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and ecstasy passes into sadness and hopelessness.
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In time fragments of the new idea reappear like lesser inspirations.
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These do not lead to the great ecstasy of the first appearance of the new
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idea, but they are promising and full of hope in a lesser way.
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We become aware of ways to express the fragments of the new idea, ways
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that are possible and do not lead to the sadness of failure. From such things
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our life grows slowly and well.
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--- TSG
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Agape Grand Lodge has a fiscal year ending the last day of February
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each year. At that time the annual financial report is prepared, and the
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world-wide membership statistics are made available. The Treasure General
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has supplied the following data. If anyone would like a copy of the Grand
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Lodge Fiscal 89-90 report (balance sheet), that can be obtained by sending
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a stamped, self-addressed envelope (or international reply coupon and SAE)
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with a note requesting FY89-90 to:
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Treasurer General
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Ordo Templi Orientis
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P.O.Box 430
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Fairfax, CA 94930 USA
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Membership Growth based on Grand Lodge accounts at end of February
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Feb '88 Feb '89 Feb '90
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Paid Associates: --- 170 ------- 194 ------ 245
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DV Associates: ----- N/A ------- 42 ------ 49
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Minervals: --------- 397 ------- 403 ------ 443
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Ist Degrees: ------- 236 ------- 358 ------ 380
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IInd Degrees: ------ 154 ------- 173 ------ 217
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IIIrd Degrees: ----- 97 ------- 109 ------ 145
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IVth Degrees: ------ 35 ------- 64 ------ 66
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Vth Degrees: ------- 40 ------- 49 ------ 63
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Higher Degrees: ---- 16 ------- 16 ------ 19
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Total members 1145 1408 1627
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Geographic distribution of known Associate and Initiate addresses:
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(by largest region and country. Sub regions over 110 subdivided)
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(From data available in March 1990)
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USA Total: ------------------------------- 886
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Alabama ---------------- 7 Montana ---------------- 1
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Arizona --------------- 13 Nebraska -------------- 10
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Arkansas --------------- 1 Nevada ----------------- 6
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California ----------- 279 New Hampshire ---------- 3
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(North CA 169) New Jersey ------------ 21
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(South CA 110) New Mexico ------------- 3
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Colorado --------------- 6 New York ------------- 102
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Connecticut ------------ 9 North Carolina --------- 5
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Delaware --------------- 2 Ohio ------------------ 21
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Florida --------------- 22 Oklahoma -------------- 14
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Georgia --------------- 36 Oregon ----------------- 9
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Hawaii ----------------- 7 Pennsylvania ---------- 12
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Idaho ------------------ 2 Puerto Rico ------------ 2
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Illinois -------------- 19 Rode Island ------------ 3
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Indiana --------------- 17 South Carolina --------- 7
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Iowa ------------------- 5 Tennessee -------------- 8
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Kansas ----------------- 7 Texas ----------------- 50
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Kentucky --------------- 3 US Virgin Islands ------ 1
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Louisiana ------------- 18 Utah ------------------ 14
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Maine ------------------ 2 Vermont ---------------- 2
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Maryland --------------- 4 Virginia --------------- 6
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Massachusetts --------- 37 Washington ------------ 48
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Michigan -------------- 11 West Virginia ---------- 4
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Minnesota ------------- 12 Wisconsin ------------- 10
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Mississippi ------------ 2 Wyoming ---------------- 3
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EUROPE Total: ---------------------------- 334
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BELGIUM --------------- 3 SWEDEN ---------------- 5
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DENMARK --------------- 2 SWITZERLAND ----------- 3
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ENGLAND -------------- 49 WALES ----------------- 1
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ERIE & IRELAND -------- 3 WEST GERMANY --------- 47
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FRANCE --------------- 19 YUGOSLAVIA Total: --- 157
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GREECE ---------------- 1 Bosnia & Hercegovina: - 12
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ITALY ----------------- 5 Croatia: -------------- 41
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NORWAY --------------- 34 Montenegro: ------------ 2
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PORTUGAL -------------- 1 Serbia: --------------- 74
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SCOTLAND -------------- 3 Slovenia: ------------ 28
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SPAIN ----------------- 1
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CANADA Total: ----------------------------- 129
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Alberta --------------- 44 New Brunswick --------- 1
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British Columbia ------ 44 Ontario --------------- 21
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Quebec ---------------- 19
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OCEANIA & ASIA Total: --------------------- 96
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AUSTRALIA ------------ 64 JAPAN ---------------- 10
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NEW ZEALAND ---------- 22
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AFRICA Total: ------------------------------ 6
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NIGERIA --------------- 4 SOUTH AFRICA ---------- 2
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PANAMERICA (exp. US&CAN) Total: ------------ 9
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ARGENTINA ------------- 2 ECUADOR --------------- 1
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BRAZIL ---------------- 1 GUADELOUPE ------------ 2
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CARIBBEAN ------------- 1 PERU ------------------ 2
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April 1990 at Thelema Lodge
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Happy April Fools! Due to Slippery Jack, Gnostic Links, and Equinoctial
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Madness...the Columnist sent an IMP-O-HELL to type this month...
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The THREE DAYS (April 8,9,and 10) as follows:
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Chapter One at the Lodge and AFTER Gnostic Mass at 8 pm... along with
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floating celebration. The Priestess would like to see her congregation wear
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their Robes.
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Chapter Two at Ancient Ways, (41st and Telegraph) hosted by Sirius Oasis.
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Reading starts at 8 pm - not "Pagan Standard Time".
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Chapter Three at 924 Gilman Street, Berkeley - also at 8 pm. "Only KIDstuff
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to be consumed in this locale"
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The Thuggee will do our usual noon readings in Horus Temple on all Three
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days.
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SUNDAZE- Jurgenmass April first, AethyrMass on the 29th; the 8th, 15th,
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and 22nd are all Liber 15 (but look out for the Deacon's fave Saint!) All
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these Masses start at 8 pm... the Taurus BDay Smash at 4:18 the 29th.
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MEETINGS- Lodgemeeting April 3rd at 8 pm; planning Beltane-By-The-Sea and
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May diversions. The Rose-Croix and Lodge-O-Perfection meet on the 19th. (And
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those Secretive folk just realised they're NOT...)
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INITIATIONS- Minervals at Midnight April 7th, First and Second Degrees
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April 21st; call a day before/that day for info if you can get thru -
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CLASSES-
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BILL'S Qabalah continues with Binah and Chokmah on the 11th and 18th;
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both at the Lodge with slides & pillows and MORE DATA than Any brain but
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Bill's can process at one gulp...
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DAVE'S Enochian Krew is still studying the sublime and supremely sacred
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septagram Sigillum Dei AEmeth at 7:30 Tuesdays the 17th and 24th...#'s 4 & 5
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of a 7-part series.
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ANDREW did not reach the Columnist by presstime- Shiatsu fans, watch
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the fridge.
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NEFERTITI Camp will run "History Night" at the Lodge April 25th
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starting at 7:30pm.
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*da IMP-O-HELL*
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March-April 1990 Thelema Lodge Calendar/Newsletter (April and May 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: 590 63rd St.
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Oakland, California
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(Entrance in back, to the right)
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Phones: Lodge/Temple: (415) 655-4942
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Messages only: (415) 454-5176
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Compuserve: 72105,1351
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