The True Philosophy, Known And Practised By

Death Is The Inseparable Antecedent Of Life; The Seed Dies In Order To Produce The Plant, And Earth Itself Is Rent Asunder And Dies At The Birth Of Dionusos. Hence The Significancy Of The Phallus, Or Of Its Inoffensive Substitute, The Obelisk, Rising As An Emblem Of Resurrection By The Tomb Of Buried Deity At Lerna Or At Sais.

To You, Sovereign Grand Inspectors General (33rd Degree Masons), We Say This, That You May Repeat It To The Brethren Of The 32nd, 31st, And 30th Degrees: 'the Masonic Religion Should Be, By All Of Us Initiates Of The High Degrees, Maintained In The Purity Of The Luciferian Doctrine.'

Nothing Excites Men's Curiosity So Much As Mystery, Concealing Things Which They Desire To Know; And Nothing So Much Increases Curiosity As Obstacles That Interpose To Prevent Them From Indulging In The Gratification Of Their Desires. Of This The Legislators And Hierophants Took Advantage, To Attract The People To Their Sanctuaries, And To Induce Them To Seek To Obtain Lessons From Which They Would Perhaps Have Turned Away With Indifference If They Had Been Pressed Upon Them.

The Unconsidered Act Of The Poorest Of Men May Fire The Train That Leads To The Subterranean Mine, And An Empire Be Rent By The Explosion.

We Avoid Sensuousness, Only By Resorting To Simple Negation. We Come At Last To Define Spirit By Saying That It Is Not Matter.