by Frater Achad Osher 583

” … for those who have eyes and ears to Understand.”

Frater Hymenaeus Alpha

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. – AL I:40

This Epistle is taken from the notes of a lengthy lecture given by Grady Louis McMurtry at Brocken Mountain Lodge OTO. The majority of the data is taken directly from a chart which he drew on a blackboard which was later added to by Frater Achad Osher correlating the Chakra system, OTO initiations & theories, The Gnostic Mass and Aleister Crowley’s Atlantis: The Lost Continent to the Qabalistic Tree of Life.

~The Gnostic Mass~

I. Of the Furnishings of the Temple.

a. Malkuth ‘Earthly, or of mundane things’ – LIGHT (Liber CL)
b. Direction & Weapon: East – DISK
c. Minerval & First Degree OTO (representing Birth)
d. Chakra: Anja/Chokmah & Vishudha/Binah [ie pillars: Jachin & Boaz]

ATLANTIS I: OF THE PLAINS BENEATH ATLAS, AND ITS SERVILE RACE.

II. Of the Officers of the Mass.

a. Yesod/Luna – LIFE (Liber CL)
b. Direction & Weapon: South – SWORD
c. Second Degree OTO (Life)
d. Chakra: Anahata/Chesed, Geburah & Tiphereth

ATLANTIS II: OF THE RACE OF ATLAS.

III. Of the Ceremony of the Introit.

a. Hod/Mercury – LOVE (Liber CL)
b. Direction & Weapon: West – CUP
c. Third Degree OTO (Death)
d. Chakra: Svadhisthana/Hod

ATLANTIS III: OF THE AIM OF THE MAGICIANS OF ATLAS: OF ZRO:
AND ITS PROPERTIES AND USES: OF THAT WHICH COMBINED WITH IT:
AND OF BLACK PHOSPHORUS.

IV. Of the Ceremony of the opening of the Veil.

a. Netzach/Venus – LIBERTY (Liber CL)
b. Direction & Weapon: North – WAND
c. Fourth Degree OTO/Lodge of Perfection (re-birth)
d. Chakra: Manipura/Netzach

ATLANTIS IV: OF THE SO CALLED MAGIC OF THE ATLANTEANS.

V. Of the Office of the Collects which are Eleven in Number (The SUN)

a. Tiphereth/Sun
b. Direction: Center
c. Fifth Degree/Rosecroix OTO (Electoral College, 11 members)
d. Chakra: Anahata/Chesed, Geburah & Tiphereth

ATLANTIS V: OF THE HIGH HOUSE OF ATLAS, OF ITS INHABITANTS,
AND OF THEIR MANNERS AND CUSTOMS, AND OF THE LIVING ATLA.

VI. Of the Consecration of the Elements.

a. Geburah/Mars
b. Sixth Degree/Kadosh OTO
c. Chakra: Anahata/Chesed, Geburah & Tiphereth

ATLANTIS VI: OF THE UNDERGROUND GARDENS OF ATLAS, AND OF THE
ALLEGED COMMERCE OF THE ATLANTEANS WITH INCUBI, SUCCUBI, AND
THE DEMONS OF DARKNESS.

VII. Of the Office of the Anthem

a. Chesed/Jupiter
b. Seventh Degree OTO
c. Key Word … Minerval, ‘restored’ [The first word as the last]
d. OF THE NATURE OF THE GODS, Liber De Natura Deorum
e. Chakra: Anahata/Chesed, Geburah & Tiphereth

ATLANTIS VII: OF MARRIAGE AND OTHER CURIOUS CUSTOMS OF THE ATLANTEANS:
AND OF SACRIFICES TO THE GODS.

VIII. Of the Mystic Marriage & Consummation of the Elements.

a. Binah/Saturn
b. Eighth Degree OTO
c. Key Word … First Degree, ‘rebirth’
d. OF THE SECRET MARRIAGE OF THE GODS WITH MEN.
e. Chakra: Vishudha/Binah

ATLANTIS VIII: OF THE HISTORY OF ATLAS, FROM ITS EARLIEST ORIGINS TO THE
PERIOD IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE CATASTROPHE.

IX. Secret. (Grimorium Sanctissimum)

a. Chokmah (Stars)
b. Ninth Degree OTO
c. Key Word … Second Degree, ‘life-corrected.’
d. AGAPE vel Liber C vel AZOTH.
e. Chakra: Anja/Chokmah

Love is the law, love under will. – AL I:57