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The Ruby Tablet Vol. I, No. 4 July - August 2012

T HE R UBY T ABLET

Contents

• Time and Space by W. Wynn Westcott.

• Letter of Louis Claude de Saint-Martin.

• Ultra-Neptunian Planets.

• Golden Dawn Research Trust.

• History & Development of Magical Wands by Kelly.

• Skylight Press.

• An Interview of Dr. Robert W. Felkin.

• The Ten Categores of Existence.

• Kerubim Press.

• The Holy Grail by A.E. Waite.

• Spiritual Quotes No. 1.

• Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn Books.

• Shem Hamphoresh by Nurho de Manhar.

• Rosicrucian Order of the Golden Dawn.

• A Ceremony Connected with the BRP by Colquhoun.

• The Society of the Rosicrucians.

In the compilation, editorial content, notes and layout

Copyright © 2012 by Golden Dawn Research Trust.

All rights reserved. The Authors and Editor have asserted theirmoral rights to be identified as the Authors of this Work.

No part of this periodical may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by anymeans, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by anyinformation storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from theGolden Dawn Research Trust except in the case of brief quotations embodied incritical articles and reviews.

The Golden Dawn Research Trust is NOT affiliated with any Occult Group or Organization.Nor do the Editor and Publisher endorse any Occult Group or Organization.

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The Divine Pymander: Collectanea Hermetica Vol. 2

by Hermes Trismegistus.

This is the first revised and corrected edition since it was originally published in1894. The edition was Edited Darcy Kuntz. A Note to the Collectanea HermeticaSeries by Robert A. Gilbert, Foreword by Chic and Sandra Tabatha Ciceroand an Introduction by Hargrave Jennings. Also included are advertisements

published in books and magazines from the 1890s.Golden Dawn Research Trust, 2012. 168 pages. 6 x 9.

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The Magical Writings of Florence FarrEdited by Darcy Kuntz.

This book contains most of Florence Farr’s published magical texts including afacsimile of the “Magical Calendar.” Also included are her magical writings forthe Order of the Golden Dawn using her motto: “Sapientia Sapienti Dona Data”(Latin: “Wisdom is a gift given to the wise”). Other volumes from members ofthe Order are to follow.

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By Names and Images:Bringing the Golden Dawn to Life

by Peregrin Wildoak.

The Golden Dawn (GD) system of magic is the main source of the esoteric

and magical wisdom and techniques practiced in the West today. While therituals and bare teachings of the tradition have been published for sixty years,the inner workings and esoteric keys that empower those rituals have largelyremained unpublished or unexplored in contemporary works. By Names andImages remedies this lack by providing detailed and clear instructions for thevisualisations, spiritual connections and energetic practices required for everymajor GD practice and ritual, as well as several unpublished techniques.

Focusing on the meanings and use of sacred names and practical

techniques of visualisation, the book thoroughly explores meditation anddivination, purification ritual, invocation and evocation, grades of initiation,and direct experience of the inner realms. Also covered is an explanation ofthe Qabalah and its use as a magical framework.

While the book is sufficiently practical and clearly explained to be of hugebenefit to a newcomer to magic, its primary aim is to allow people alreadypracticing the Golden Dawn system to do so more effectively, and to betouched by the amazing spiritual blessings the rituals offer.

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Available now:

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In “King Over The Water,” Golden Dawn magician Nick Farrell paints a pictureof the founders of the Golden Dawn becoming out of their depth as the Orderbegan to create magicians. Rather than painting Mathers as an eccentric

genius, Farrell sees him as an autocratic fantasist. He sees Mathers strugglingto keep up as his students rapidly became better than him at the system hecreated, and shows how he was unable to raise his game to help the Orderdevelop further.

Kerubim Press, 2012. 362 pages, 6 x 9.

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THE HOLY GRAIL

By A.E. WAITE

IT is long since a new thesis on the origin of the Grail myth hasbeen proffered in English circles of research, and it happens that thelast contribution to this involved but talismanic problem is made inthe course of an investigation which has far other objects in view. Itseems to me, therefore; that I shall deserve well of those readers whoare drawn by the cycle of Arthurian romance and history if I removethe proposition from a setting in which it is likely to be buried, so

far as they are concerned. Dr. L.A. Waddell, who is ex-professorof Tîbetan at London University, and has been described as theforemost living authority on Lhasa and its mysteries, has publishedrecently a monumental work 1 on the genesis of civilisation about3380 b.c. in the homeland of the Aryan and Nordic race, identifiedwith the Sumerians, “whose vast city-ruins in Mesopotamia . . .began to be unearthed some fifty years ago, and whose treasures

now enrich” the national museums of Europe and America. Dr.Waddell’s contribution to the general subject centres in his affirmeddiscovery that “the Sumerians were Aryans in physical type, culture,religion, language and writing.” The evidence for these things,which are at issue with the views and conclusions of previous “leading

Assyriologists,” is to be sought not alone in the volume now beforeme but in earlier theses of the same author on the Phœnician origin

of Britons, Scots and Anglo-Saxons; on Indo-Sumerian seals; andon the Aryan origin of the alphabet. At this point, having stated thecase, the debate must be left to scholarship, remembering that Dr.Waddell carries many titles to consideration on this score. Perhaps Ishould add that he seems not less dogmatic on his own part than themost dogmatic in the cohort of experts. He is armed at all points;but I hazard an opinion that if he has vulnerable places, they will be

found in fantastic etymologies. And now as to the Holy Grail. He says that its original is still

extant, being a Sumerian “fetish stone-bowl,” described as a war-trophy. It belonged to the first Sumerian King, Dur or Tur, to


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whose memory it was dedicated subsequently by his great grandson,King Udu of Kish City, “the fourth Imperial King of the First

Aryan Dynasty.” He placed upon it “the oldest known historicalinscription in the world,” an genealogy of the said kings. What isthe connection, however, with the palladium of Arthurian quest? Dr.Waddell says that “it is now disclosed as the actual material original ofthe famous» Holy Grail of “King Arthur.» It is more even than this,for it is also the “magical stone-bowl Or cauldron captured from theweirds at the Well of Urd . . . by Her-Thor as detailed in the NordicEddas.» It was captured by Dur or Tur from the aboriginal ChaldeanSerpent-Worshippers, when he destroyed the degrading dragon-cult of the ancient world and substituted the sun-cult, characterisedas a bland form of worship. Udu himself was termed “the King ofthe Precious Stone,” and “King of the Hidden Vessel.” It is calledhidden because he buried it under the foundations of a tower “inthe oldest Sun-Temple in Mesopotamia.» It was broken when soentombed, and it remained in concealment till it was “unearthed ina fragmentary condition, but with its inscription practically intact,

by the Pennsylvanian University Expedition»—at a date which I donot find specified in the story. In any case, one of the fragments is atpresent in Dr. Waddell›s possession.

So far as I am able to gather, the line of evidence for this affirmeddiscovery is that King Arthur connects etymologically with Tur,the first Sumerian King, as he does also with Thor; that the secondSumerian King connects with and is “the historical original of Sir

Gawain, the chief champion knight-errant» of Arthurian legends;and that the Grail was taken into concealment, as Udu›s Bowl washidden. Dr. Waddell might have added that King Udu was a priestas well as a monarch, and that his concealment, of the fetish-bowlsuggests a further Grail analogy, because the German romance-cycle represents the sacred vessel as carried away into the land ofPrester John, and that this priest-king and his successors became its

custodians.It is a mad world, my masters—is this world of scholarship; for

Arthur being also Thor is likewise Odin and St. George, while Gawainis St. Michael, Cain and Nimrod. There is, of course, no Quest of


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the Grail in this new version; it does not feed the hungry or givedrink to the thirsty: it does not produce oracles; there is no mysteryconcerning a wounded king whose healing depends on the asking ofa certain question. In a word, this last speculation of origins explains

nothing connected late or early with the Holy Grail itself; or anybranch of its old romance-literature. It seems unlikely, therefore;that it will attract attention at the hands of textual scholars. Weshould have been more than grateful to Dr. Waddell had he offeredsomething to our purpose; for the position of the Grail problem isunder greater clouds than ever, and so seems likely to remain. It maycome as a surprise to several, but whereas there has been a subsidence

of work in England since the untimely death of Mr. Alfred Nutt, aleading Celtic scholar, there are records of research in America whichhave offered not only occasional new views upon certain aspects ofthe Grail subject, but have cast grave doubt on several fashions ofinterpretation. For example, a hostile judgment has been passed onthe fertility-cultus hypothesis which Miss Weston derived mainlyfrom Frazer›s materials in The Golden Bough, though it had earlier

protagonists in Simrock and E. Martin. It has been shewn also thatMiss Weston’s view is, “in the most essential respects, identical”with that of W.A. Nitze, who was at work independently at the sameperiod. Dr. J.D. Bruce,2 in his exhaustive study of Arthurian literature,concludes that where features common to Christian legend andancient cults are found in the Grail romances, it is “much more likely“ that these texts “derived them from the former rather than from

any supposed underground perpetuation of the latter.” The parallelsof the Grail procession are in Christian ritual, and Christian ritual is“far more likely to have been the immediate source than any ancientrites of Agrarian Divinities about which we know nothing definite.Not only, therefore, do the vegetation gods go forth, like the solar-mythological hypothesis of Birch-Hirschfeld, which preceded, butso also does the Celtic origin, and we are left with an invention which

has its basis in Christian Myth, fortified by the far-diffused stones ofpassion-relies. This is an old view, but Dr. Bruce brings great learningto bear on its reconstruction. It may be added that, so far back as1893, Professor G.M. Harper 3 of Princeton College, Baltimore, had


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affirmed that the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper, “symbolising thecontinued presence of Christ in the world,” was “the final cause,the unacknowledged reason, the unknown beginning, of the wholecycle.” There is also Miss L.A. Fisher4 who in 1917 proposed the

Holy Grail as a symbol of transubstantiation, and might have beeninspired by my own study of the literature, but it had not come intoher hands. A later writer has, moreover, resuscitated the colourablesuggestion that the Grail, which in all its forms has been suspectfrom the beginning to the mind of Latin orthodoxy, represented acounter-ecclesiastical claim with a secret story behind it, which maybe compared again with my personal thesis concerning a Hidden

Church. But Dr. Barto,5

to whom I refer, deals chiefly or only withthe German cycle, and is more concerned with shewing after whatmanner the Grail mythos degenerated into that of the Venusberg.This is a new contribution to an important branch of the subject, andseems to establish firmly its point of view.

I continue to hold, on my own part, that certain folk-lorematerials, like the tale of Perceval, were taken over by the makers

of the Grail story and adapted to their purpose. It is in this formonly that they assumed a spiritual significance, from which point ofview the quests of scholarship among the raw material of the past areof archæological interest only. Furthermore, as there is no questionthat the metrical Roman de Saint Graal, which passes under the nameof Robert de Borron, contains intimations of a priestly hierarchyindependent of Rome and of a secret formula which appears to be

of Eucharistic character.6 I hold also that those who are lookingfor light on the real meaning of the Grail will do well to follow thesuggestion made now long ago by a certain German writer, and turnin the direction of various religious movements belonging to thelate twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, and classed, of course,as heretical. The Cauldron of the Dagda and the treasures of theIrish Tuatha de Danann may offer material correspondences with the“talismans” of the great romance-cycle; but in reality they are littlemore to the purpose than the fetish stone-bowl of the first Sumerianking, as revealed to us by Dr. Waddell.


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Notes:

1. The Makers of Civilisation in Race and History . By L.A. Waddell,Ll.B., C.B., C.I.E., etc. 8vo. Pp. lvi + 646. London: Luzac & Co.Price 28s. net.

2. The Evolution of Arthurian Romance. By J.D. Bruce, 2 vols., 1923.3. The Legend of the Holy Grail . By G. McLean. Harper, 1893.

4. The Mystic Vision in the Grail Legend and in the Divine Comedy . ByLizette A. Fisher, 1917.

5. Tannhäuser and the Mountain of Venus . By P.S. Barto, 1916.

6. See my Hidden Church of the Holy Grail , 1909.

Spiritual Quotes No. 1.


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The Book of the Concourse of the Watchtowers:An Exploration of Westcott’s Enochian Tablets

by Sandra Tabatha Cicero.

The Book of the Concourse of the Watchtowers: An Exploration of Westcott’sEnochian Tablets by Sandra Tabatha Cicero examines every aspect of what theauthor calls the “Full Color Scale Enochian Tablets” and provides graphic color

keys and a complete color-coded breakdown of the nearly 3,000 triangles thatmake up the pyramid squares of the four tablets. It is a first-class textbook onthe Color Magic of the Golden Dawn.

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Golden Dawn Rituals and Commentaries by Pat Zalewski.

This is not another beginner book on Magick that so many large publishingcompanies tend to print. This book was designed for the intermediate andadvanced practitioner of the Order of the Golden Dawn. Now for the first time,the secrets of the original members of the Stella Matutina are being publishedso that those who could benefit from this knowledge will learn as Zalewski haddone with his mentor, Jack Taylor. This leather edition is stricty limited to 350

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May 18, [ 19 ]64.

An Outline of a Preliminary Ceremony

Connected with the Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram

by Ithell Colquhoun.

The Altar is arranged as for the 0°=0° Grade of Neophyte of the G[oldenD[awn]:

Rose and Dagger in E[ast]

[Red] Lamp and Fire Wand in S[outh]

Cup in W[est]

Pentacle with Bread and Salt in N[orth]

(If the Pentacle is not ready, a gold coin may be substituted.)

(The Altar is draped in black; in the centre is a White Equilateral Triangle and a RedCross of Six Squares; the height of the Triangle should be the same as that of the Cross.)

The Ceremony of Banishing and Purifying the Four Elements:

Water: (Take the Sword and face West.) I exercise ye, impure, unclean and evil Spirits that dwell in this creature of

Water (oil, wine), by the Holy and Divine Name of AL ( la ) , the strong andmighty! (Trace the Banishing Pentagram of Water with Sword):


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And in the Name of Gabriel ( larbag ) the Great Archangel of Water, Icommand ye, to depart and no longer pollute us with your presence in thisHall of Maat!1

In the name of HCOMA (Trace the Invoking Equilibrating Pentagram of Spirit—Passive with the Lotus Wand); and in the name of MPH ARSL GAIOL, Iconsecrate thee, O creature of Water, to the service of the Magick of Light!

(Trace the Invoking Pentagram of Water with the Cup.)

Fire: (Take the Sword and face South.)

I exercise ye, impure, evil, and opposing Spirits dwelling in these creature

of Flame, by the Holy and Tremendous Name of God—Elohim ( iyhla ) ,the Vast and Mighty One! (Trace the Banishing Pentagram of Fire with Sword):

And in the Name of Michael ( lakam ) the Great Archangel of Fire, Icommand ye, to depart and no longer pollute us with your presence in this

Hall of Maat!In the name of BITOM (Trace the Invoking Equilibrating Pentagram of Spirit— Active with the Lotus Wand); and in the name of OIP TEAA PDOCE, Iconsecrate thee, creatures of Flame, in the service of the Magick of Light!(Trace the Invoking Pentagram of Fire with the Fire Wand.)


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Air: (Take the Sword, fast East and strike the air three times.)

I exercise ye, impure, unclean, and evil Spirits that dwell in this creature of

Air, by the Holy and Divine Name of YHVH! ( hvhy .) (Trace the BanishingPentagram of Air with Sword):

And in the Name of Raphael ( lapar ) the Great Archangel of Air, Icommand ye, to depart and no longer pollute us with your presence in thisHall of Maat!

In the name of EXARP (Trace the Invoking Equilibrating Pentagram of Spirit— Active with the Lotus Wand); and in the name of ORO IBAH AOZPI, Iconsecrate thee, O creature of Air, to the service of the Magick of Light!(Trace the Invoking Pentagram of Air with the Dagger.)

Earth: (Pick up the Salt, face North and cast the Salt to the Four quarters goingclockwise. Return the Salt to the Altar and then take the Sword and face North.)

I exercise ye, creatures of impure and opposing Spirits that dwell in thiscreature of Earth, by the Holy and Divine Name of ADONAI Ha-ARETZ!

( xra-h ynda. ) (Trace the Banishing Pentagram of Earth with Sword):

And in the Name of Auriel ( layra ) the Great Archangel of Earth,I command ye, to depart immediately and no longer pollute us with yourpresence in this Hall of Maat!

In the name of NANTA (Trace the Invoking Equilibrating Pentagram of Spirit—Passive with the Lotus Wand); and in the name of MOR DIAL HECTGA, Iconsecrate thee, O creature of Earth, to the service of the Magick of Light!(Trace the Invoking Pentagram of Earth with the Pentacle.)


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Outline of the Pentagrams in the Ritual

Note: In each case, the Sword is used for Banishing and the Lotus Wand forInvoking. The Hebrew Names are used for Banishing and the Enochian Namesfor Invoking.—I.C.

WATER:1. Banish with the Pentagram of Water. (Traced with the Sword.)

2. Invoke with the Equilibrating Pentagram of Spirit—Passive.

(Traced with the Lotus Wand.)

3. Invoke with the Pentagram of Water. (Traced with the Implement of Water.)

FIRE:

4. Banish with the Pentagram of Fire. (Traced with the Sword.)

5. Invoke with the Equilibrating Pentagram of Spirit—Active.


6. Invoke with the Pentagram of Fire. (Traced with the Implement of Fire.)

AIR:

7. Banish with the Pentagram of Air. (Traced with the Sword.)8. Invoke with the Equilibrating Pentagram of Spirit—Active.


9. Invoke with the Pentagram of Air. (Traced with the Implement of Air.)

EARTH:

10. Banish with the Pentagram of Earth. (Traced with the Sword.)

11. Invoke with the Equilibrating Pentagram of Spirit—Passive.(Traced with the Lotus Wand.)

12. Invoke with the Pentagram of Earth. (Traced with the Implement of Earth.)

Note:1. Colquhoun used the name Thama-est , but added “Maat” in brackets. I have

chose to use Maat as that is what the Golden Dawn Hall or Temple is referredto.—D.K.


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The Society of the Rosicrucians: A Rough Sketch of their Fundamental Doctrines.

THE following are in outline the fundamental doctrines of the Brothersof the Rosy Cross. He who fulfills the required conditions, may find allnecessary information in the “Book of Initiation,” and they say that whenhe is ready he finds with ease, a guide who, through his higher self instructsand directs him infallibly.

It is understood that the Society desires to be truly spiritual and asksno fees, but it seeks as members only those who are practical workers in thecause of humanity. But it is a secret body, not from fear of enemies, but

in order to spread the truth, unimpeded by the war of opinions. The truthbeing eternal, is not subject to opinion, but to those who are able to see, itstands revealed in its own light.

1. The Universe as a whole is a Unity, having only one, eternal, universaland fundamental cause for its existence. All the multifarious forms,essences, powers or principles, are not originally self-existent, but aremerely various manifestations of that one and universal cause. They arevarious modes of one original activity, and their shapes or organisms arethe products of that activity, working upon different planes of existenceand in various stages of evolution.

2. This cause, being eternal, unlimited and infinite, is beyond thepower of the intellectual comprehension of any mortal and limited being.Its presence may be perceived everywhere, but in its highest aspect it canfully be known only to itself. Beings lower than itself, may intuitively feelits presence, but cannot intellectually know it, until they have risen up to

its own level on the plane of existence. To avoid circumlocution, we callthat eternal (spiritual) principle in its highest aspect “God ” or “Brahm”;

both words signifying originally “Good.” 1 3. In this eternal and universal cause, the center or fountain of All,

is contained potentially everything existing in the Universe. It is itself,germinally or in a more or less developed state contained in everythingthat exists, It forms the (spiritual) center of every living organism, and life

itself is only a mode of manifestation of its own power. It is the cause andthe architect of every form; it builds the form which it in habits, from thatcenter, by the power of its own (consciously or unconsciously active) will and thought, and by the means offered by eternal nature, the latter beingitself a product of previous states of its own existence and eternal action.


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4. The highest form of activity of this principle requires for its perfectexpression, perfect means. The perfect cannot manifest its perfection inan imperfect organism. The place which a being occupies on the ladder ofevolution, depends on the progress which that divine principle, acting inthe center of each being, has made in evolving an organism, adapted to its

manifestation.5. The most perfect organism for the manifestation of the divine and

universal principle in its highest aspect, of which we know, in the (spiritual)organism of Man. In this organism, this divine principle, after havingattained sensation and consciousness in the lower forms of nature, may acquire(spiritual) self-consciousness and self-knowledge, evolving what is called theindividual mind, with all its powers and faculties, for (spiritual) perceptionand

real knowledge or wisdom.

6. The (ordinarily) visible so called physical body of man is not the real Man, but merely a more or less imperfect representation of the real, or“inner man,” whose sphere of activity may extend as far as the sphere of hismind; in other words—as far as the power of his (spiritual) perception. The“inner man” is a reality, which after having attained—by the power of selfdifferentiation—an individual existence, will retain its individuality, afterthe physical forms, which it has occupied for the purposes of evolution

during its life upon a planet, have been disintegrated and changed intoother forms.

7. Every being continues to exist in its essence after the (physical) formwhich expressed its essential character, has dissolved and disappeared;but as long as it has not acquired (spiritual) self-consciousness and self-knowledge, it is forced, after a time of rest, to reappear in a new form(mask or personality), to resume the process of its further development.2 After the divine principle in man has attained individual (spiritual) self-consciousness and self-knowledge, it requires no more embodiments in(physical) forms, and may, harmoniously united with the All, continue toexist as a self-conscious intelligence.

8. The attainment of spiritual self-consciousness and self-knowledgeand the necessarily resulting perfection, therefore involves the attainmentof immortality, and the latter can only be acquired by acquiring the former.Only that which is perfect remains; the imperfect is continually subject to

change. 9. Although the individual human monad, without (spiritual) self-

consciousness and knowledge, may arrive at that state of perfection inthe slow course of its evolution, extending perhaps over many millions of years, nevertheless there is no necessity to wait until nature may, perhaps


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slowly and unaided, accomplish her object, but she may be assisted by theindividual will and effort of those who know how to proceed.

10. The first necessary requirement for all who desire perfection, istherefore to know the laws that rule in the visible and invisible universe, andthe attainment of the knowledge involves a study of the constitution of

the Universe and of the constitution of (the soul of ) Man.11. From knowledge springs power, but those who possess knowledge,

will be in the possession of something that will not benefit them, unlessthey desire to put it to some practical use. The second requirement istherefore to will, and as an individual will, deviating from the directionof the will of universal good, or acting in opposition to the latter, isevil, and can only bring final destruction upon him that exercises it,consequently the will of the individual must act in accordance with theuniversal will of God.

12. To act evil is for the majority of men far easier than to do good.Good will and desires to become useful must be made to accomplish somework. To overcome the resistance of evil and to put good into practicerequires energy, courage and effort, and the third necessary requirement istherefore to dare to practice the good which we know and desire.

13. But as a power, after it has once been obtained, may be employed

for good or for evil purposes, and as it is not desirable that persons withevil inclinations and tendencies, should be taught the way to prolong theirpersonal existence after the dissolution of their physical form, becausetheir existence would cause the infliction of injury upon others, and exposethemselves to a long, slow and painful final disintegration; therefore, thedeepest secrets of the Rosicrucians, and the way to the practical applicationof the secret knowledge, should be taught only to those who are good andpure to a degree sufficient to warrant that the mysteries communicated andrevealed to them, may not be misapplied. The fourth necessary requirementfor the Rosicrucian is, therefore, to be silent, in regard to that which it is notexpedient to speak.

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