7.3: "What is the Great White Brotherhood?" cont.
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7.3: "What is the Great White Brotherhood?" cont.
Members of the A.'. A.'. of whatever grade are not bound or expected
or even encouraged to work on any stated lines, or with any special
object.... There is however an absolute prohibition to accept money or
other material reward, directly or indirectly, in respect of any service
connected with the Order, for personal profit or advantage. The penalty
is immediate expulsion, with no possibility of reinstatement on any terms
soever.
But all members must of necessity work in accordance with the facts
of Nature, just as an architect must allow of the Law of Gravitation,
or a sailor reckon with currents.
So must all Members of the A.'. A.'. work by the Magical Formula
of the Aeon.
They must accept the Book of the Law as the Word and the Letter
of Truth, and the sole Rule of Life.... They must acknowledge the
Authority of the Beast 666 and of the Scarlet Woman as ...in the book
it is defined, and accept Their Will ...as concentrating the Will of our
Whole Order. They must accept the Crowned and Conquering Child as the
Lord of the Aeon, and exert themselves to establish His reign upon Earth.
They must acknowledge that "The word of the Law is GR:Theta-Epsilon-
Lambda-Eta-Mu-Alpha." and that "Love is the law, love under will."
Each member must make it his main work to discover for himself his
own true will, and to do it, and do nothing else....
He must accept those orders in the Book of the Law that apply to
himself as being necessarily in accordance with his own true will,
and execute the same to the letter with all the energy, courage, and
ability that he can command. This applies especially to the work of
extending the Law in the world, wherein his proof is his own success,
the witness of his Life to the Law that hath given him light in his
ways, and liberty to pursue them. Thus doing, he payeth his debt to
the Law that hath freed him by working its ill to free all men; and
he proveth himself a true man in our Order by willing to bring his
fellows into freedom.
By thus ordering his disposition, he will fit himself in the best
possible manner for the task of understanding and mastering the divers
technical methods prescribed by the A.'. A.'. for Mystical and Magical
attainment.
He will thus prepare himself properly for the crisis of his career
in the Order, the attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of his
Holy Guardian Angel.
His Angel shall lead him anon to the summit of the Order of the R.C.
and make him ready to face the unspeakable terror of the Abyss which
lies between Manhood and Godhead; teach him to Know that agony, to
Dare that destiny, to Will that catastrophe, ...and to keep Silence
for ever as he accomplishes the act of annihilation.
From the Abyss comes No Man forth, but a Star startles the Earth,
and our Order rejoices above that Abyss that the Beast hath begotten
one more Babe in the Womb of Our Lady, His concubine, the Scarlet Woman,
BABALON.
There is not need to instruct a Babe thus born, for in the Abyss
it was purified of every poison of personality; its ascent to the highest
is assured, in its season, and it hath no need of seasons for it is
conscious that all conditions are no more than forms of its fancy.
10. The Grade of Adeptus Minor is the main theme of the instructions
of the A.'. A.'. It is characterised by the Attainment of the Knowledge
and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. (See the Equinox, "The
Temple of Solomon the King;" "The Vision and the Voice" 8th Aethyr;
also "Liber Samekh", etc. etc.) This is the essential work of every
man; none other ranks with it either for personal progress or for power
to help one's fellows. This unachieved, man is no more than the unhappiest
and blindest of animals. He is conscious of his own incomprehensible
calamity, and clumsily incapable of repairing it. Achieved, he is
no less than the co-heir of gods, a Lord of Light. He is conscious
of his own consecrated course, and confidently ready to run it. The
Adeptus Minor needs little help or guidance even from his superiors
in our Order.
His work is to manifest the Beauty of the Order to the world, in
the way that his superiors enjoin, and his genius dictates.
To attain the Grade Adeptus Major, he must accomplish two tasks;
the equilibration of himself, especially as to his passions, so that
he has no preference for any one course of conduct over another, and
the fulfilment of every action by its complement, so that whatever
he does leaves him without temptation to wander from the way of his
True Will.
Secondly, he must keep silence, while he nails his body to the tree
of his creative will, in the shape of that Will, leaving his head and
arms to form the symbol of Light, as if to make oath that his every
thought, word and deed should express the Light derived from the God
with which he has identified his life, his love and his liberty ---
symbolised by his heart, his phallus, and his legs. It {238} is impossible
to lay down precise rules by which a man may attain to the knowledge
and conversation of His Holy Guardian Angel; for that is the particular
secret of each one of us; as secret not to be told or even divined
by any other, whatever his grade. It is the Holy of Holies, whereof
each man is his own High Priest, and none knoweth the Name of his brother's
God, or the Rite that invokes Him.
The Masters of the A.'. A.'. have therefore made no attempt to institute
any regular ritual for this central Work of their Order, save the generalised
instructions in Liber 418 (the 8th Aethyr) and the detailed Canon and
Rubric of the Mass actually used with success by FRATER PERDURABO in
His attainment. This has been written down by Himself in Liber Samekh.
But they have published such accounts as those in "The Temple of Solomon
the King" and in "John St. John." They have taken the only proper course;
to train aspirants to this attainment in the theory and practice of
the whole of Magick and Mysticism, so that each man may be expert in
the handling of all known weapons, and free to choose and to use those
which his own experience and instinct dictate as proper when he essays
the Great Experiment.
He is furthermore trained to the one habit essential to Membership
of the A.'. A.'.; he must regard all his attainments as primarily the
property of those less advanced aspirants who are confided to his charge.
No attainment soever is officially recognised by the A.'. A.'. unless
the immediate inferior of the person in question has been fitted by
him to take his place.
The rule is not rigidly applied in all cases, as it would lead to
congestion, especially in the lower grades where the need is greatest,
and the conditions most confused; but it is never relaxed in the Order
of the R. C. or of the S. S.: save only in One Case.
There is also a rule that the Members of the A.'. A.'. shall not
know each other officially, save only each Member his superior who
introduced him and his inferior whom he has himself introduced.
This rule has been relaxed, and a "Grand Neophyte" appointed to
superintend all Members of the Order of the G. D. The real object
of the rule was to prevent Members of the same Grade {239} working
together and so blurring each other's individuality; also to prevent
work developing into social intercourse.
Such is a brief account, adapted as far as may be to the average
aspirant to Adeptship, or Attainment, or Initiation, or Mastership,
or Union with God, or Spiritual Development, or Mahatmaship, or Freedom,
or Occult Knowledge, or whatever he may call his inmost need of Truth,
of our Order of A.'. A.'.
It is designed principally to awake interest in the possibilities
of human progress, and to proclaim the principles of the A.'. A.'.
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