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FREE WILL By V.H. Fra. Q.L. (Oswald Murray) While Oriental Theosophy postulates the unity of all Life in its basic source, it makes the attainment of conscious union between the lower of intellectual aspect of mind with the Soul or Higher Manas dependent on the effort of the former, or in other words of the […]

KNOW THYSELF By V. H. Sor. V.N.R. — 6=5 (Moina Mathers) Perfect knowledge of Self is required in order to attain Knowledge of Divinity, for when you can know the God of yourself it will be possible to obtain a dim vision of the God of All, for the God of the Macrocosm only reflects […]

ELEMENTARY VIEW OF MAN By G.H. Fra. D.D.C.F. The following diagram will of course be immediately recognised by all of you : Now supposing a physical man to be here represented, Kether is the Crown and is above the head. The junction of Chokmah and Binah in Daath is in the head itself. Then Chesed […]

THE AIMS AND MEANS OF ADEPTSHIP By G.H. Fra. N.O.M. (Dr. W.W. Westcott) Among the objects for which you have joined the Second Order some are specially named by the Obligation which you have taken, and others are indicated by the documents which you have received on loan. Speaking generally however, we may say that […]

PROGRESS IN THE ORDER By V.H. Sor. F.e.R. (Annie Horniman) A few words on the natural wish to make progress in our Order may interest some of those who have just joined us and also whose efforts seem to lead to little or no result. Of course the experience of each one is unique, and […]

THE SYMBOLISM OF THE SEVEN SIDES By G. H. Frater N.O.M. Among those characteristics which are truly necessary in the pursuit of magical knowledge and power, there is hardly any one more essential than thoroughness. And there is no failing more common in modern life than superficiality. There are many who, even in this grade […]

THE HISTORY OF THE ROSICRUCIAN ORDER By G.H. Fra. N.O.M. (Dr. W.W. Westcott) The opening words of that part of the 5=6 Ritual which deals with the History of the Order of R.C. are as follows: Know then 0 Aspirant, that the Order of the Rose and Cross hath existed from time immemorial and that […]

MAN AND GOD By G.H. Fra. N.O.M. (Dr. W.W. Westcott) The circle of Members of the Adeptus Grade of the Order R.R. et A.C. is a fraternity of students of the Hermetic Sciences and of the Hermetic Art. The chain which unites us is in the acceptance of the doctrines and wisdom contained in the […]

TALISMANS AND FLASHING TABLETS By Frater Sapere Aude (W. Wynn Westcott) A TALISMAN is a magical figure charged with the torce which it is intended to represent. In the construction ota Talisman, care should be taken to make it, as far as is possible, so to represent the Universal Forces that it should be in […]

SECRECY AND HERMETIC LOVE By V.H. Sor. S.S.D.D. (Florence Farr) We have all no doubt heard of the terrible physical tests applied in Egyptian Initiations and are aware that violence amounting to torture was used in the Ancient Mysteries before the Neophyte was considered fit to take the first steps in his Ascent of the […]