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The Secret Rituals of the O.T.O. Edited and Introduced by FRANCIS KING Front dustjacket The Secret Rituals of the O.T.O. Edited and Introduced by FRANCIS KING In recent years there has been a remarkable resurgence of interest in what is generally referred to as the 'Occult'. Popular Sun-sign astrology has become a subject for cocktail party chatter; the 'Underground press' displays an intensive, although often ill- informed, interest in such subjects as Glastonbury, Ley Hunting, and Flying Saucers; and books — many of them owing what little merit they possess to the skillful employment of scissors and paste — on all aspects of occultism pour from all the presses. In the shadow of such well-publicised aspects of the Occult revival can be dimly discerned the shape of an altogether more important phenomenon — nothing less than the rebirth of Magic. Magic, that is, in the sense that it is defined by the extraordinary occultist Dion Fortune: 'The science and art of causing changes in consciousness in accordance with will.' There is no doubt that the magical techniques, for which extraordinary efficacy is claimed, are almost exclusively derived (although sometimes indirectly) from those two extraordinary occult sodalities the Hermetic Order of the Golden Front dustjacket Dawn and the Ordo Templi Orientis. The rites and secret instructions of the former organisation are easily available in Dr, Francis Regardie's Golden Dawn, a work which only now, thirty-five years after its first publication, is beginning to receive the appreciation it so undoubtedly deserves. Those of the latter, the Ordo Templi Orientis, have hitherto never been published, although grossly inaccurate and incomplete typescript versions of them have occasionally been sold for high prices. Now, at last, this volume makes available to the occult student not only the symbolic- masonic riches of the initiate on rituals pf file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Michael/...Secret%20Rituals%20of%20the%20O.T.O/index.html (1 of 2) [12/28/2001 2:00:55 PM] Front dustjacket the O.T.O. but the secret magical instructions of the Order's seventh, eighth and ninth degrees, the full details of the techniques from which such occultists as Theodor Reuss and Aleister Crowley derived their mystic powers. Here is a source book that has a place in the library of every serious student of the Occult. file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Michael/...Secret%20Rituals%20of%20the%20O.T.O/index.html (2 of 2) [12/28/2001 2:00:55 PM] The Secret Rituals of the O.T.O. PART ONE The Birth and Development of the THE SECRET O.T.O. ● The Manifesto RITUALS OF THE of 1917 ● Occult O.T.O. Templarism ● The Early Edited and Introduced by FRANCIS KING Years of the O.T.O. ● Reuss, Steiner and SAMUEL WEISER Aleister New York Crowley 1973 ● The O.T.O. since * Crowley’s Death First published in Great Britain by The C. W. Daniel Company Limited ● The 60 Muswell Road, London, N.10 Structure of the O.T.O. © Francis King © The O.T.O. PART TWO The Rituals First United States edition Themselves Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1973 ● Minerval Library of Congress Catalogue Card No. 73-84936 ISBN 0-87728-144-0 ● First Degree ● Second Degree ● Third Degree file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Michael/...0Secret%20Rituals%20of%20the%20O.T.O/main.html (1 of 3) [12/28/2001 2:01:12 PM] The Secret Rituals of the O.T.O. ● Lodge of Perfection and Fourth Degree ● Council of Princes of Jerusalem ● Fifth Degree ● Sixth Degree PART THREE The Secret Instructions of the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Degrees ● Of the Nature of the Gods ● Of the Secret Marriages of Gods with Men ● The Book of the Unveiling of Sangraal ● Of the Homunculus Appendix: A Note on Sources file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Michael/...0Secret%20Rituals%20of%20the%20O.T.O/main.html (2 of 3) [12/28/2001 2:01:12 PM] The Secret Rituals of the O.T.O. FOOTNOTES file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Michael/...0Secret%20Rituals%20of%20the%20O.T.O/main.html (3 of 3) [12/28/2001 2:01:12 PM] The Secret Rituals of the O.T.O. PART ONE The Birth and Development of the O.T.O. * CHAPTER ONE The Manifesto of 1917 In the spring of 1917 the Russian people, worn out by almost three years of their rulers’ political and military incompetence, overthrew their Czar and installed a Provisional Government. At about the same time the U.S.A. entered the war on the allied side. Neither of these events greatly excited the inhabitants of Henri Oedenkoven’s and Ida Hoffmann’s eccentric vegetarian community situated at Ascona in Switzerland. They were far more interested in a bombastic encyclical just promulgated by Theodor Reuss, a temporary guest of the community. ‘Let it be known’, began this manifesto, ‘that there exists, unknown to the great crowd, a very ancient Order of sages, whose object is the amelioration and spiritual evolution of mankind by means of conquering error and aiding men and women in their efforts of attaining the power of recognizing the truth. This Order has existed already in the most remote times and it has manifested its activity secretly and openly in the world under different names and in various forms: it has caused social and political revolutions and proved to be the rock of salvation in times of danger and misfortune. It has always upheld the banner of freedom against tyranny in whatever shape this appeared, whether as clerical or political or social despotism or oppression of any kind. ‘To this “secret order” every wise and spiritually enlightened person belongs by right of his or her nature: because they all, even if they are personally unknown to each other, are one in their purpose and object and they all work under the guidance of the one light of truth. Into this Sacred Society no one can be admitted by another unless he has the power to enter it himself by virtue of his own interior Illumination neither can anyone after he has once entered be expelled unless he should expel himself by becoming unfaithful to his principles and forget again the truths which he has learned by his own experience. ‘All this is known to every enlightened person. ‘But it is known only to few that there exists also an external, visible organization of such men and women, who having themselves found the path to real self-knowledge, and who having travelled the burning sands, are willing to give to others, desirous of entering that path, the benefit of their experience, and to act as spiritual guides to those who are willing to be guided. file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Michael/...0Secret%20Rituals%20of%20the%20O.T.O/p1c1.html (1 of 4) [12/28/2001 2:01:15 PM] The Secret Rituals of the O.T.O. ‘While numberless societies, associations, orders, groups, etc., have been founded during the last thirty years in all parts of the civilized world, all following some line of occult study, yet there is but ONE ancient organization of genuine Mystics which shows to the seeker after truth a Royal Road to discover the Lost Mysteries of Antiquity and to the Unveiling of the One Hermetic Truth. ‘This organization is known at the present times (sic) as the: Ancient Order of Oriental Templars Ordo Templi Orientis Otherwise: The Hermetic Brotherhood of Light ‘It is a Modern School of Magic. And, like the ancient schools of magic, it derived its knowledge from the East. This knowledge was never revealed to the profane, for it gave immense power for either good or evil to its possessors. It was recorded in symbol, parable and allegory, requiring a Key for its interpretation. ‘The symbols and glyphs of Freemasonry were originally also derived from the more ancient mysteries. ‘These symbols of ancient Masonry, of the Rosicrucians, the sacred art of the ancient Chemi (Egyptians), of Homer’s Golden Chain, like those of modern Freemasonry, etc., are however but different aspects of the One Great Mystery. They all require a key to disclose the real underlying meaning. There exists, however, but One Right Key, and moreover this one right key must be used the Right Way. ‘This key can be placed within the reach of all those who are prepared unselfishly to study and work for its possession, if they apply for membership to the Order of Oriental Templars (O.T.O.). ‘The O.T.O. (Ordo Templi Orientis) is a body of Initiates in whose hands are concentrated the secret knowledge of all Oriental Orders and of all existing Masonic Degrees. Its Chiefs are Initiates of the highest rank and recognized as such by all capabel (sic) of such recognition in every country in the world. The Order is international, and has existing connections in every civilized country in the world. Every man or woman who becomes a member of the O.T.O. has an indefeasible right to the first three degrees of Masonry. ‘The O.T.O., although an Academia Masonica, is not a Masonic Body, so far as the craft degrees are concerned in the sense in which that expression is usually understood in England, and therefore in no way conflicts with, or infringes the just privileges of, the United Grand Lodge of England. English Master Masons in good standing, by arrangement, on affiliation, are admitted at reduced charges. Members of the IX° become part-proprietors of the Estates and Goods of the Order. For further information see the publications of the O.T.O., and the synopsis of the degrees of the O.T.O.’ The manifesto goes on to outline the Constitution of the O.T.O.; the rules of membership are file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Michael/...0Secret%20Rituals%20of%20the%20O.T.O/p1c1.html (2 of 4) [12/28/2001 2:01:15 PM] The Secret Rituals of the O.T.O.
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