P-13


   He insists on the importance of a pure body, instancing Frater T'agathon as
an example of a failure to do this. I now see the eight-fold star of Mercury
suddenly blazing out, it is composed of four fleur-de-lys with rays like
antlers, bulrushes in shape between them. The central core has the cypher of the
Grand Master, but not the one you know. Upon the cross are the Dove, the Hawk,
the Serpent, and the Lion. Also on other symbol, yet more secret. Now I behold
fiery swords of light. All this is upon a cosmic scale. All the distances are
astronomical. When I say ``Sword'' I have a definite consciousness of a weapon
many millions of miles in length. The field of my vision is much enlarged as if
I had been practising _Batrachophrenobookosmomachia_ for ten years.
      _Now follow numerous questions of O.S.V. to L.T.; indicated only by_
_initials. The same question was asked repeatedly in different forms, but always_
_answered in the same sense until the last question._
_   _[L.T.]:  I have never seen such a lot of beautiful skyscapes. There are pink
clouds like flights of birds, actually in flight now they are like flying
serpents, their colours re-mingling with purple and green. _Anhalonium_ visions
must be very similar to this. It is all over now. He didn't go on, because He
had come to tell us things, for a particular purpose.
   _   The Temple was then closed; Fra. Lampada Tradam was then clairvoyant, as_
_he thinks, or obsessed, as O.S.V. thinks, and makes the following statement,_
_whcih O.S.V. considers demonic, on the grounds that many of the statements are_
_contrary to public morality._
_   _   L.T. begins by saying that this Rite is a huge force that we unloose. By
the time that we have 20 people working at it, it will become very dangerous.
International complications are to be feared.* This was the original form of
worship. It is important not to initiate any persons under the age of 30, unless
for some special reason.
      The obvious dangers of the Rite appal L.T. He says that those who adopt
this Rite will either succeed completely or fail utterly. There is no middle
path for it is impossible to escape the ring of divine Karma created.
      In any series of Rites the roles of the celebrants should not be
interchangeable. O.S.V. is to be priest only in invocations of feminine gods.
The occult reason for this is that only the black Gods are hermaphrodite. _( ! )_
The exception to this rule is in cases of divine possession.
      The supreme Rite would be to bring about a climax in the death of the
victim. By this Rite one would attain the summit of Magical Art. Even better
would be to slay a girl, preferably a willing victim. After violating her, she
should be cut into 9 pieces. These should _not_ be eaten, but divided as follows:
-- head, arms, legs, and quadrisected trunk. The names of the Gods appropriate
are to be written on the skin, the arms are then to be flayed, and burnt in
honour of Pan or Vesta, the legs (treated in the same manner) should be offered
to Priapus, Hermes, or Juno. The right shoulder is sacred to Juppiter, the left
buttock to Venus. The head should not bve flayed, but burnt simply, and that in
honour either of Juno or Minerva. The Rite should not be employed on ordinary
occasions, but rarely, and then for great purposes; it should not be disclosed
to any man.
   _   In the opinion of O.S.V. and L.T. these instructions partake of the_
_character of black, or at least grey, magic. The reader is requested to note_
_that the Temple had been formally closed before they were obtained._