Ordo Templi Orientis
Theodor Reuss
Rituals
IV° Lecture
Theodor Reuss' O.T.O. Rituals
edited by P.R. Koenig
Lecture for the IVth Degree (fragment only)
With our last work we started to contemplate the visible and the
invisible worlds. In that I told you the parable of a young man who
wanted to become wise and who asked a wise hermit: "Master, what do I
have to do to become wise?" whereupon the wise man dived him into
water and told him: "If you want to become wise then the urge to
become so must be as strong as the need for air when you were under
water."
I have to admit that I was a bit disappointed because I expected from
you Knights of St. Andrew a certain wish and need for wisdom. But
until today, I did not receive one single report about following the
given instructions for one single day. - When I was young, the
successes I achieved in the school of silence, were such that I could
have written not only a short report, but a whole book. Possibly one
has to look for a fault on my side, because I should not have lectured
these instructions to you but given them into the hands of each
personally. These instructions as step 1, are given to you for only 14
days.
The primary purpose of Freemasonry, especially of High Degree
Freemasonry, is not to build large organisations and bodies in order
to get powerful (and this power is often executed in a way that is
contrary to the basic principles of true and genuine freemasonry); but
to follow the example of our ancestors, to study and research the
secrets of nature, and to recognise the truth and the Deity. Just for
this reason, we have united only the Craft Masonry into a World Body,
but not the High Degrees. The chapters and areopages of the high
degrees are the place where a Mason can evaluate his knowledge and his
learning of the Royal Art; and where he is not hindered by the works
of organisation and material questions. Let us dedicate ourselves to
inner knowledge and development in our chapters; only then will we
learn to esteem the value of the high degrees.
Today, I will proceed to penetrate into the secrets of nature and to
lecture about the visible and invisible worlds.
The universe distinguishes 7 peculiar worlds or states of matter,
thus:
1) the world of God
2) the world of the primary spirits
3) the world of the divine spirit
4) the world of the spirit of life
5) the world of the mind
6) the world of desire
7) the physcial world.
Each of these worlds itself distinguishes again 7 other regions, e.g.
we can recognise in the physical world the earth or matter, water or
fluid matter, air or gas-like matter, and four kinds of aether (world
aether). About these I will speak again later. The three worlds of our
planet are the physical or the material world, the world of desire and
the world of the mind. These three worlds, although each separated
from each other, seep through each other in order that we can
recognise these three worlds everywhere. It is only 20 years ago that
the excellent scientists of modern material science have labelled
alchemists and astrologers as swindlers, or at least as dreamers;
despite just these ...
© P.R. Koenig 1996 / 2000
To other texts and rituals about and by Theodor Reuss
Diskussionen zum Ordo Templi Orientis
Ekstatische Erzeugung von Kultur Die McDonaldisation der Okkultur Zur Geschichte des O.T.O. Fragen und Antworten zu Theodor Reuss, Rudolf Steiner und Aleister Crowley Rudolf Steiner: niemals Mitglied irgendeines O.T.O. Vorwort zu "Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica" Raumkunst, Lebenskunst, Liebeskunst David Bowie: Gnosis als Hype Carl Kellner Auswahl von Kommentaren Konzept und Interviews
Selbstdarstellung aus "Gnostika" 1, 1996 "Never Trust an Occultist". Interview in "Thing" April 1997 "Moondust will cover me". Interview in "Sigill" 15, 1997 "Nein, von diesem Lichte ess ich nicht". Interwiew in "Gnostika" Juli 1998 "Gestatten, Under-Cover Agent P.R. König" — Ein Interview für die FLENSBURGER HEFTE zum Thema "Feldzug gegen Rudolf Steiner" (eine Analyse des Vorgehens der Gebrüder Grandt) Deutsche online Bücher zum O.T.O.
Das O.T.O.-Phänomen (die vollständige Geschichte der O.T.O. Gruppen) Ein Leben für die Rose (die Biographie von Arnoldo Krumm-Heller, plus eine Analyse von Reuss', Crowleys und Krumm-Hellers Sexualmagie: Ein Vergleich mit der Fraternitas Saturni) ABRAMELIN & Co. (über Heilige Schutzengel und andere UFOs).
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