have not attained to this Treasure.
These, if they are wise, will make no attempt to disclose this inner Truth to the profane, but will be
content that they rest in the shadow of that external Truth which We have here declared unto you, that
God is One, and that His name is in the Macrocosm the Sun, and in the Microcosm the Phallus.
For all attempts to initiate even the worthy before they initiate themselves are folly and fatality. The
Secrets of the Wise, although known of them, are not to be exprest in the language of common men.
Look you, Sir Knights, this Doctrine itself that We reveal to you in this Supreme Grand Council to
which ye have attained so hardly, how will it sound, think you, even in a Consistory of Princes of the
Royal Secret, prepared as they are for some such revelation? How then to mere Knights Kadosch, to
Sovereign Princes of Rose Croix? And how to Master Masons? It is for this reason that our Council is
thus Sentinelled within and without, and that our whole Ritual from Minerval upward is but a constant
series of hints of this One Truth.
What is the tent of Saladin but the Phallus? And the First Word as the last is ON, the Sun.
But were the Minerval to suspect this truth, would he not turn to flee in terror from the Camp and be
cut down by the Black Guard that wardeth even the outmost marches of the Kingdom of the Most Holy
and Most High Lord God Almighty?
Therefore, reflect, act wisely and with prudence, Sir Knights, not declaring openly the Arcanum to such
as understand not already of their own ripe wit. And in what time seemeth Him good shall the O.H.O.,
gathering his forces, declare this Truth privily unto the Kings and Princes of the Earth, that they may
take counsel together and rule all men in peace and love by virtue of this Secret under the Shadow of the
Wings of the One ineffable Lord.
3For this secret is not only a convenient manner of doing this, a Pillar of Flame to disperse the Shadows
of Earth, but is also a convenient veil — and the only veil worthy — of that further Light which We are
not able to reveal even to this Supreme Grand Council of the O.T.O.
IVOf all our enemies those are most to be feared, who make false gods of their imaginations.
For the heathen are turned easily from gods of clay; for truth strikes home sharply on their dark minds.
It is easy to prove that the Sun is indeed the source of Life and Light, that the Phallus is indeed
PANGENETOR. But to those who have stultified themselves, who have darkened their own eyes, who
have betrayed their own reason in seeking out phantastic gods, foul and tangled cobwebs of metaphysic
spun by emasculate spider-professors in sunless cloisters, bubbles blown by idiots and madmen, myths
misinterpreted, fables taken for history, lies pushed forward by every forgery, fraud, treachery and
murder, to such the Truth seems false, and the Light darkness.
Such Gods as Parabrahman merely bewilder the people, and render them the prey of priestcraft, while
the Christs of the Latin, Lutheran and Anglican Churches alike are but the machine-gods of all fraud
and oppression, being stolen and prostituted from that Christ in whom our Fathers in the Gnosis strove
to synthesize the warring gods of Syria, Greece, Chaldea, Rome and Egypt at the time when the growth
of the Roman Empire first made travel and the intercommunication of the priests of Mithras, Adonis,
Attis, Osiris, Dionysius, Isis, Astarte, Venus and many scores of others possible.
Traces of this recension are still visible in the Mass and in the Calendar of the Saints, all gods and
goddesses of universal import receiving the same honour by the same rites as before, while the local
gods were replaced by saints, virgins, martyrs, or angels, often of the same name, always of the same
character.
Thus on the altar the Solar-phallic Crucifix is surrounded by six lights for the planets, to use one
example only of a hundred at Our disposal; and Christmas is at the winter Solstice, the birth of Christ
put for the birth of the Sun. All these points may be studied in:
La Messe et ses Mysteres
Rome, Pagan and Papal
The Two Babylons
Rivers of Life
Two Essays on the Worship of Priapus
and many other books which may be studied in the library of the O.T.O. and elsewhere.
But in pure Free Masonry and especially in the O.T.O. this synthesis has been made with greater
accuracy and skill, and with higher concentration, with more lucidity, with dramatic and poetic genius,
so