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~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
Copyright (C) Cornelius 2006