From: "John B. Fleming" 
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 15:41:16 -0500 (EST)


                              HERALD-TEPAPHONE
                                       
A Quarterly Publication of IAO Camp, Ordo Templi Orientis
Autumnal Equinox, 1995 E.V.
Volume One, Number Three

   
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   _Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law._
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   IAO Camp,
   Ordo Templi Orientis
   P.O. Box 5793
   Bloomington, Indiana 47407
   
      Personnel:
      
   The Non-existent Brother R. B., Camp Master
   The Non-existent Sister R. H., Treasurer
   Fr. In Profunda, Minister of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda
   Sr. Manibhadra, Minister of Caffeine
   Sr. Shekinah, Minister of Protocol and Appetizers
   Fr. Wayne (formerly known as The Magician Formerly Known as Wayne),
   Minister of Magical Formulae
   
   Outside Contributors:
   
   A. Alhazred
   L.W. deLaurence
   Dr. Fu-Manchu
   Jack
   A. Quiller III
   Sr. S.S.D.D.
   Taliesyn
   Adam Weishaupt
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  In this issue...
     * SOROR MANIBHADRA MEMORIAL ISSUE
     * Hell Freezes Over! Brother R. B. gets a Computer!
     * Web Site, Anyone?
     * Top Ten Cool Things about Soror Manibhadra
     * The Deification of Jerry Garcia
     * A Few More Notes on Liber 365
     * A Nice Little Graeco-Egyptian Invocation
     * Physics for Thelemites
     * Typhonian Tomes: Being a Guide to the Works of Kenneth Grant
     * Unclassifiable Ads
     * Autumn Equinox Ritual
     * Reviews
          + Women of the Golden Dawn, Mary K. Greer
          + The Mirror Pool, Lisa Gerrard
          + The Andrews Sisters (Capital Collectors Series)
          + The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, Joscelyn Godwin, Christian
            Chanel, and John P. Deveney
          + The Grimoire of Armadel, translated and edited by S. L.
            MacGregor Mathers
          + The Wars of Gods and Men, Zecharia Sitchin
          + Initiations and Initiates in Tibet, Alexandra David-Neel
          + The Soul of Lilith, Marie Corelli
          + The New Satanists, Linda Blood
          + The R'Lyeh Text, Robert Turner
          + The Voudon Gnostic Workbook, Michael Bertiaux
          + The Wizard's Bible, Louis G. Sikes
     * IAO Camp Calendar of Events
       
   
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  SOROR MANIBHADRA MEMORIAL ISSUE
  
   As all the world knows, or at least the bits that read the Tepaphone,
   our beloved Soror Manibhadra, M.`. shuffled off this mortal coil some
   months ago under the loving hands of Brother C. L., an act which
   played to critical acclaim right in our very own Temple. Her
   accomplishments, ranging from the redemption of the ninth of August
   (see page six), to serving as the Camp's Minister of Caffeine _in
   spite_ of her demise, are too numerous to list here. It is in
   recognition of her inimitable wonderfulness that we have dedicated
   _this entire issue_ to her memory. Let this be an example to us all!
   
   
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  Hell Freezes Over! Brother R. B. gets a Computer!
  
   Yes, our own Arch Luddite and Camp Master has at last moved into the
   Twentieth Century! He is now the bemused owner of a genuine IBM PC
   which answers to the name of ... Sam. We should probably have expected
   something like this after the Vatican admitted it _might_ have been
   wrong about Galileo. Word is that R. B. has even been using e-mail,
   which brings us to ...
   
   
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  Web Site, Anyone?
  
   We have been discussing the possibility of establishing a Homepage on
   the World Wide Web, either as a single Camp or in conjunction with
   other Official Bodies in the Midwest. Any ideas, suggestions, or
   support will be welcome.
   
   
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  Top Ten Cool Things about Soror Manibhadra
  
   10. Lives in a mansion with a hot tub.
   9. Only Deadhead with a real job.
   8. Figured out Robert Plant's horoscope _before_ she cast it.
   7. International sex witch.
   6. Java Goddess.
   5. The cute way she ties her hair up in a bun.
   4. The cute way she pulls her sweater up over her nose.
   3. Rastafarian by default.
   2. Knew the _true value_ of Samekh Final _even before it_ was revealed
   to the world.
   1. She's a TOTAL BABE!!!
   
   
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  The Deification of Jerry Garcia
  
   
   
    By Frater In Profunda III`
    
   _`Well, I'll put up with it until they come to me with the cross and
   nails.'_ -- Jerry Garcia
   
   As all the world knows, Jerry Garcia, guitarist for the Grateful Dead,
   celebrated his Greater Feast on 9 August of this year.1 This event has
   elicited an unprecedented outpouring of emotion from millions of the
   band's fans, and in this the observant may discern the unmistakable
   signs of an emerging religious consciousness. In fine, Captain Trips
   is heading for Godhood.
   
   Now, it is hardly a new idea that at least some of the Gods were in
   fact mortals of great accomplishments (a doctrine known as
   Euhemerism); certainly history is full of people who were paid Divine
   honours after death, so there is no reason why this venerable custom
   cannot continue. That Dead shows have taken on the aspect of religious
   events is hardly news,2 and no less an authority than Joseph Campbell
   (who is heading in the same direction himself) identified Dead shows
   as `modern Dionysian Mysteries'. The Great One himself has been the
   object of veneration by Deadheads in general, particularly the
   `Spinners', members of a religious commune who perform Sufi-style
   dancing in front of the stage. One Tourhead known to us once shook the
   Master's hand after a concert and was immediately mobbed by other
   Heads looking for The Guy Who Touched Jerry.3 Now, of course, the
   legend will only grow, and we now offer some educated speculations on
   the path things will take.4
   
   This Prophet estimates the remaining members of the band will be drawn
   back together in, at most, two years. In the mean-time Head culture
   will grow and diversify as people give more attention to other bands,
   such as Phish or Blues Traveller, who have long been in the Dead's
   shadow. There will be a vast flowering of expanded consciousness as
   the Sixties-Current that the band and its following have held in their
   keeping spreads far and wide. When the Dead do return, it will be to a
   vastly expanded audience representing a new and powerful civilization.
   
   There will be sightings of Jerry worldwide. A bearded figure in a
   black tee-shirt will be seen noodling in a newly-formed crop-circle. A
   scuba diver will be saved from certain drowning by a large
   four-fingered hand. He will appear in dreams offering guidance to the
   faithful, some of whom will have been perfectly straight at the time.
   Heads will be alerted to Johnny Law in time to dispose of the
   evidence. There will be reports of miraculous healings and
   inexplicable manifestations.5 A ghostly Jerry face will be seen on the
   Great Sphinx at Giza. An informal cultus will develop.
   
   Shrines will be erected in parks and concert sites across the world.
   The liturgy will consist of listening to the Eternal Tape Loops and
   consuming acid-laced Kind Veggie Burritos. The Dead's old house in San
   Francisco, 710 Ashbury, will naturally become most the important
   Temple and the object of pilgrimage.6 In the inner sanctum will be a
   reliquary housing The Missing Finger, which will be displayed to the
   multitudes on High Holy Days.7
   
   And lo! At long last will come to pass the Prophecy of Denis Hopper:
   that the Nineties will make the Sixties seem like the Fifties.
   
   Amen, Amen, and Amen;
   and Amen of Amen;
   Amen.
   
      Footnotes
      
   1. A date already consecrated to Fame by virtue of being our own Soror
   Manibhadra's Birthday.
   
   2. See Sardiello, R., _The Ritual Dimensions of Grateful Dead
   Concerts_, (Master's Thesis, University of North Carolina, 1990) and
   Sutton, Shan, _The Deadhead Community: A Popular Religion in
   Contemporary American Culture_, (Master's Thesis, Wright State
   University, 1993).
   
   3. He was able to escape however, and retains his _Baraka_ to this
   day.
   
   4. It does not, of course, make the slightest difference that Garcia
   always resisted the extraordinary veneration He received -- it was
   simply His Divine modesty at work; the reader may see the film _Monty
   Python's Life of Brian_ for a similar case.
   
   5. Like those of Ganesha, Jerry statues will have a taste for white
   substances -- powdery in this case.
   
   6. As if it isn't already!
   
   7. A word should be said here about the lyrics. Many new Heads are
   already dismayed to discover that Garcia did not write his own lyrics.
   In time, such facts will be swept under the round tie-dyed beach
   blanket, and to even mention Robert Hunter will become the grossest
   heresy in many denominations. For others, Hunter will remain the
   object of secret veneration in small esoteric sects.
   
   
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  A Few More Notes on Liber 365
  
   
   
    by the Non-Existent Brother R. B.
    
   Thanks to the encouragement and guidance of two colleagues, I have
   made a bit of progress in my continuing study of _Liber 365_ (a/k/a
   _Liber 120_ a/k/a _Liber 800_ a/k/a _Liber Samekh_ a/k/a _The
   Preliminary Invocation of the Goetia_ a/k/a _The Invocation of the
   Heart Girt With a Serpent_ a/k/a _The Invocation of the Bornless One_
   a/k/a _The Bornless Ritual_, etc.).
   
   In the last issue of the _Tepaphone_, some valuable evidence was
   contributed by my esteemed colleague Mr. Quiller--a serious scholar
   handing out laudable erudition!--and in light of the information he so
   generously shared, I have discarded some earlier theories about the
   history of our ritual. I agree with Mr. Quiller--that wonderfully
   insightful thinker!--that Mathers was probably familiar with _P. Lond.
   46_ in 1888 (the year the Golden Dawn was founded), and that the
   ritual now known as the _Preliminary Invocation of the Goetia_ was
   redacted into its familiar modern form no later than 1896. I should
   observe, however, that Mr. Quiller--despite inculcating considerable
   knowledge!--was slightly mistaken in saying that Bennett's 1896 ritual
   features 'the refrain of Liber 365 in the exact wording...found in the
   1904 _Goetia_,' inasmuch as the wording of Bennett's ritual differs
   slightly from that of the _Goetia_.
   
   Another colleague, the young William Keith, has questioned my use of
   the title _Liber 365_ for the _Preliminary Invocation of the Goetia_.
   While _Liber CCCLXV_ is described in the _Equinox_, vol. III no. IX,
   as simply _The Preliminary Invocation of the Goetia_, he pointed out
   that the fuller description given in the _Equinox_, vol. III no. I,
   leaves the matter open to debate. The fuller description reads: '_The
   Preliminary Invocation of the Goetia_ so called, with a complete
   explanation of the barbarous names of evocation used therein, and the
   secret rubrick of the ritual, by the Master Therion. This is the most
   potent invocation extant, and was used by the Master Himself in his
   attainment.'
   
   This description is quite problematic. It sounds much more like _Liber
   Samekh_ than the _Preliminary Invocation_, but the description was
   written more than two years before _Samekh_ existed! Moreover, the
   invocation 'used by the Master...in his attainment' could not be
   _Samekh_ (which was written in 1921, 15 years after that attainment),
   but might instead be the _Preliminary Invocation_ in Crowley's
   personal copy of the _Goetia_, to which he added copious marginal
   notes (some, but by no means all, of which were later incorporated
   into _Liber Samekh_). But in AC's personal copy there is no
   explanation of the 'secret rubrick.' In other words, the description
   of _Liber 365_ cannot be applied with strict accuracy to any known
   text!
   
   I am reminded of the uproar a few years ago, when some of the Order's
   sharpest minds were involved in a debate over Averse, Inverse,
   Reversed, and Inverted pentagrams. The argument was that, since
   Crowley was a scientifically-trained thinker and a precise writer, he
   would only have used different terms if he had different types of
   pentagrams in mind, and there ensued heated discussions about how
   Averse and Inverse pentagrams differed from each other. My
   counter-argument was that, since Crowley was a poet as well as a
   pretty sloppy scholar who despised proof-reading, there was no reason
   to suppose that he had half-a-dozen different pentagrams in mind just
   because he used that many adjectives. A Crowley manuscript finally
   established that an averse pentagram was in fact the same as an
   inverse, inverted, or reversed one (students with nothing better to do
   may consult Bro. DuQuette's _Magick of Thelema_ for a discussion of
   this debate).
   
   My point in dredging up that stuff is to show that AC was sometimes
   rather vague, and to suggest that we should not read this description
   of _Liber 365_ with too keen an eye. The descriptive title of _Samekh_
   equates the 1921 version of the ritual with the version Crowley used
   in 1906, though the texts are clearly different, so that we could
   justly use the title _Liber 365_ both for _Samekh_ and for Crowley's
   annotated version of the _Preliminary Invocation_. Since Crowley
   apparently saw these different texts as merely two phases in the
   development of a single ritual, we could also see (if we squint a
   little) the un-annotated _Preliminary Invocation_ as simply one more
   phase in the development of _Liber 365_.
   
   Ideally, Crowley's own usage would tell us what he had in mind when he
   created the title, but Crowley does not seem to have used the name
   _Liber 365_ anywhere except on p. 16 of the _Blue Equinox_! _Liber
   Samekh_, when actually written, was assigned the numbers 800 and 120,
   both connected with the letter Samekh (120=SMKh, Samekh spelt in full,
   and 800=QShTh, 'a bow,' which is the Hebrew name for the sign
   Sagittarius, attributed in G.`.D.`. Qabalah to the letter Samekh).
   Furthermore, Crowley rarely used either of these numbers, using
   instead either _Liber Samekh_ or the _Preliminary Invocation of the
   Goetia_. One gets the impression that Crowley just never found a
   number to his liking.
   
   When I began using the title _365_, I hoped to replace the awkward and
   misleading monicker _Preliminary Invocation of the Goetia_ and the
   equally misleading _Bornless Ritual_, and to have a simple title for
   that particular version of you-know-what-ritual which appeared in the
   1904 _Goetia_. I now think it would be a better idea to use _365_ --
   as Crowley himself seems to have used it in the _Equinox_, vol. III
   no. I -- as a generic term applicable to all the versions of you-know
   what-ritual, at least up till 1921. That is, I think we could
   profitably lump together everything from the original manuscript of
   _P. Lond. 46_ to _Liber Samekh_ as different stages in the evolution
   of 365.
   
   Of course, this usage is not in strict agreement with the description
   given in the _Blue Equinox_, but then again neither is anything else.
   I think the use of the otherwise disused title _365_ would simplify
   discussions by supplying a simple generic name for the many versions
   of you-know-what-ritual, and by avoiding the confusing generic use of
   titles like the _Bornless Ritual_, which properly refer to one
   particular version of the ritual. I can't say what Crowley had in
   mind, but for my own purposes at least I have found a use for the
   title _Liber 365_, and I will continue to use it as long as it seems
   useful.
   
   Someone will no doubt ask what the number 365 has to do with our
   ritual. Besides the obvious solar significance, 365 is the numerical
   value of the name Abrasax, a Gnostic god who is invoked in the ritual
   twice by name and once by allusion (look at a picture of Abrasax and
   you'll get a clearer idea of what it means to have 'sight in the
   feet'). Crowley's explanation of the name Abrasax in _Liber Samekh_
   interprets it as 'the Father' [AB='father' in Hebrew], 'the Sun' [RA,
   the Egyptian Sun God], 'Hadith' [SAX=SET=HAD, etc., via a curious line
   of etymological reasoning: see cap. V of _MTP_], and 'the spell of the
   Aeon of Horus' [Abracadabra, according to magical tradition, derives
   from the name Abrasax], which is good enough for me.
   
   Aside from these somewhat pedantic revisions of my earlier ideas, not
   much has happened with my study of _Liber 365_. I have been promised
   copies of several manuscripts relevant to the project, which I hope
   will allow me to go forward with my research.
   
   
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  A Nice Little Graeco-Egyptian Invocation
  
   
   
    translated by R.B.
    
   For reasons which will be obvious to my more astute readers (such as
   Soror Manibhadra), I have not ventured to make up a descriptive title
   or choose an appropriate number for the following invocation. It comes
   from _P. Lond. 46_, the source of our _Liber 365_, and is one of the
   finest spells in that collection. My translation is based on the Greek
   text given in Goodwin, 1852, and I have imitated the style of _365_ in
   favor of a simpler and more literal translation. I personally use this
   invocation to 'warm up' before _365_, but my readers will doubtless
   find other uses for it. The papyrus itself describes this as an all
   purpose invocation: 'It loosens fetters, weakens, sends dreams,
   creates favor. It is a common spell to get what you will.'
   
   _I invoke Thee, that didst create Earth and Bones and all Flesh and
   all Spirit,
   And that didst raise up the Sea and that shakest the Heavens,
   Thee, that didst divide the Light from the Darkness,
   The great Lawful Mind that directeth All,
   Eye of the aeon,
   Daemon of Daemons, God of Gods,
   the Lord of the Spirits, the aeon that cannot go astray, IAW OUHI
   [sic],
   Hear my voice!
   
   I invoke Thee, the Ruler of the Gods,
   High-thundering Zeus, Zeus the King,
   ADAINAI, Lord, IAW OUHE.
   
   I am He that invokes Thee in the Syrian tongue,
   Thee, the Great God ZAALAHR, IPhPhOU.
   
   And do Thou not misunderstand my voice in the Hebrew tongue,
   ABLANAThANALB [sic], ABRASILWA.
   
   For I am SILThAChWOUCh, LAILAM, BLASALWTh, IAW, IEW, NEBOUTh,
   SABIOThAR, BWTh, ARBAThIAW, IAWTh, SABAWTh, PATOURH, ZAGOURH, BAROUCh,
   ADWNAI, ELWAI, IABRAAM, BARBARAUW, NAU, SIPh,O High-Minded, O Life of
   the aeon, the Crown of the Cosmos, that prevailest over All!
   SIEPH, SAKTIETH, BIOU, SPhH, NOUS, SIEThO, ChThEThWNIRINX, WHAHHWAI,
   A, WHIAW, ASIAL, SARAPHOLSW, EThMOURHSINI, SEM, LAU, LOU, LOURINX.
   
   _(Note that I have transliterated the barbarous names according to a
   fairly common convention, in which H represents the letter eta, and W
   represents omega. Rough and smooth breathings are not indicated in the
   papyrus. Also, I have avoided translating the multifarious word aeon,
   preferring to let my readers interpret it as they will. Also note that
   in the interest of academic soundness I have resisted the temptation
   to include "MANIBHADRA" among the barbarous names.)
   
   
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  Physics for Thelemites
  
   
   
    by Jack
    
   Frater Sanctimonious, hardcore Thelemite (got 76 on last issue's
   test), is overjoyed because he has just received his signed copy of
   the limited edition of _The Laundry Lists of Aleister Crowley_.
   Unfortunately, Fr. S. is unaware that every Crowley book contains
   minute quantities of the _highly radioactive_ element THERIUM (#93,
   atomic weight 666), and that his Crowley collection has now reached
   _critical mass_. Thus, when Fr. S. adds his new acquisition to his
   over-burdened shelves, he causes an _uncontrolled chain reaction_ that
   instantly destroys his entire city block and rains death on the city
   of Los Angeles. Thousands die horribly from _Therium contamination_,
   lasting only long enough to mutter a few lines of bad poetry before
   Greater Feasting.
   
   Public outcry is muted, however, when it is discovered that each of
   the casualties was the _Real Head_ of the _One True Order of the
   Golden Dawn_, and were due to be culled by the California Bureau of
   Wildlife Management anyway.
   
   
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    9 August in History
    
   'The day that lives in infamy.'
   
   117ev
          Hadrian learns he has been adopted by the Emperor Trajan, 2
          days before learning of Trajan's death.
          
   378
          Visigoths rout the Roman army and kill the Emperor Valens.
          
   1483
          Pope Sixtus IV consecrates the Sistine Chapel.
          
   1549
          England declares war on France.
          
   1849
          Hungary is decisively defeated by invading Russians.
          
   1932
          Iowa Farmer's Union begins violent strike.
          
   1940
          British garrisons withdraw from Shang-hai and northern China as
          Japanese empire begins expansion.
          
   1943
          Expressionist painter Chaim Soutine dies.
          
   1945
          Atomic bomb kills 75,000 at Nagasaki.
          
   1956
          British families are airlifted out of the Suez Canal Zone,
          after Egyptian occupation has already begun.
          
   1967
          SOROR MANIBHADRA IS BORN!
          
   1970
          Peruvian jet crashes, killing 101. Israel violates cease-fire
          by attacking guerilla bases in Lebanon.
          
   1974
          President Nixon resigns, President Ford is sworn in.
          
   1980
          Saudi jet catches fire, killing 301.
          
   1989
          President Bush signs act to bail out S&Ls.
          
   1995
          Jerry Garcia becomes first rock star to die of natural causes.
          
   (It will be noted that the birth of our beloved Soror is one of only a
   few good things which redeem this ill-omened date.)
   
   
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  Typhonian Tomes: Being a Guide to the Works of Kenneth Grant
  
   
   
    by Frater In Profunda III`
    
   Part Five: _Nightside of Eden_ (Muller 1977, Skoob 1995)
   
   After completing his _Typhonian Trilogy_ (_The Magical Revival_,
   _Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God_, and _Cults of the Shadow_),
   Grant embarked on a new series of studies in his `Draconian
   Tradition'. The first of these is a specialised discussion of the Tree
   of Life based on the Class A book, _Liber CCXXXI_. Grant's premise
   (partly derived from Fr. Achad's `Formula of Reversal') is that there
   are two sides to the Tree: the normal `Dayside' which is familiar to
   all Magicians in the Golden Dawn / A.`.A.`. tradition -- and the
   `Nightside', or `back' of the Tree, which is the source of the
   Qlippoth. The Qlippoth are normally said to form an upside-down Tree
   depending from Malkuth and are to be avoided at all costs. Grant,
   however, considers them to be a dark `mirror image' in Universe B, a
   `non-existent' reality underlying our normal Universe A. Here, instead
   of the Paths, we find the strangely looping `Tunnels of Set' winding
   their way through the `dream-cells' of the collective unconscious.
   This realm consists not of `evil spirits', but of the most ancient
   atavisms that may be accessed by the intrepid Magicians in quest of
   knowledge and power. The means for doing this are provided by the
   sigils in _Liber 231_ utilized in conjunction with sexual Magick.
   
   `Very well,' you say, `let us see how Grant deals with this.' First of
   all, it must be noted that he does not present all of _231_, merely
   the Qlippothic sigils and individual verses. He does not give, or even
   mention, the `Dayside' material at all. I assume that there was some
   worry about copyright infringement if the entire Liber was included,
   but I suspect that this omission reflects an overall tendency of his
   to concentrate on the `dark side' of Magick to the exclusion of all
   else. The entire first half of the book is a long, rambling,
   disjointed collection of weird Qabalistic goo that generally leaves
   one wondering just what the point is.1 It often seems that this
   section was chopped into chapters at arbitrary intervals, especially
   since the chapter titles usually have only a tenuous connection to the
   material they introduce (even if they do sound totally cool).
   
   As for the text itself, we learn among other things, that the O.T.O.
   Degree system is `old aeon', that `Choronzon manifests as the Scarlet
   Woman', that nuclear experiments have caused an invasion of `powers
   from the other side', that _Ain_ = _Ayin_, and therefore 0 = 70, that
   apes are `the outcome of pre-human magical experiments by
   extra-terrestrials who copulated with primitive women'2, and all
   manner of bizarre lore culled from Blavatsky, Bertiaux, Massey and
   others. He also seems determined to reduce every possible Deity to an
   aspect of Set, no matter how unlikely the subject.
   
   Another point to be made here is that while Grant denies that the
   Nightside is really evil, and advocates working with these energies as
   a spiritual necessity, he can't seem to help always dragging out the
   most lurid descriptions possible, often reminding one of a bad horror
   novel rather than a serious occult tome. It is as if he cannot see any
   way to invoke the Tunnels _except through fear_. In my humble opinion,
   anyone working with this material stricly from Grant's perspective is
   in for a very wild ride.
   
   Part Two is more coherent, simply because it follows the very obvious
   structure of discussing each of the twenty-two Tunnels in turn. The
   sigil of each guardian is given along with a few pages describing its
   nature and powers. Much of this is simply taken from _777_. Grant puts
   special emphasis on the specific type of sexual Magick worked by the
   adepts of each Tunnel, thus making this a comprehensive, if overly
   specific _grimoire_. The major idiosyncracy here is,of course, Grant's
   re-definition of the XI` to cover menstruation. He goes on for so long
   about how Moon-Blood is the true original sacrament and how it breeds
   abhorrent monsters in the Ether that it seems both offensive3 and
   ridiculous.
   
   Whilst reading this book, I thought at first that Grant had finally
   run out of perplexing words. In fact, it was just that he was saving
   his strength for a supreme effort of amazing proportions. Here we are
   faced with `discreted', `insee', `teratomas', `appertained',
   `entifying' and its cousin, `entification', `expatiating', the
   `inferior Hebdomad' and the `superior Hebdomad', `advert to',
   `aduced', `impubescent', `equipollence', `pre-eval', `olid',
   `keraunograph', and the ultimate `excrementious manifestation'.
   
   As a final note, I must say that I regard this book not so much as a
   completely wrong headed project as a worthwile idea that got ruined in
   the execution. Those wishing to explore the mysteries of _Liber 231_
   are directed to _The Shadow Tarot_ by Linda Falorio and Fred Fowler
   (available from Black Moon Publishing), which provides a far superior
   treatment of this same material.
   
      Footnotes
      
   1. Some years ago a group in this area did considerable work with this
   material. Some of the participants had their photocopies of Part One
   out of order and did not notice the fact until they specifically
   looked at the page numbers! They said putting things back in the
   correct order didn't seem to help much.
   
   2. To be fair, later on Grant says this is to be understood
   symbolically.
   
   3. Especially to international sex witches.
   
   (Buckle up kiddies, because next issue we go _Outside the Circles of
   Time_.)
   
   
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  Autumn Equinox Ritual
  Sol in Libra, Luna in Virgine, IViii AL
  
   
   
    by members of IAO Camp
    
   _First Part--Yod--the Preparation_
   
   In the East of the Temple the Stele of Revealing is exalted. Two
   pillars, or two great candles, flank the Stele and suggest the base of
   an equilateral triangle of which the Stele is the apex. Below the
   Stele lie the elemental weapons of the five senses -- to the right, a
   rose for Air and the sense of smell, a lamp for Fire and sight; to the
   left, a cup of wine for Water and taste, a stone for Earth and touch;
   between these, a bell for Spirit and hearing. A small altar stands in
   the center of the Temple.
   
   The five Officers of the Temple represent the five elements. They are
   stationed in the quarters -- AIR in the East, FIRE in the South, WATER
   in the West, EARTH in the North, and SPIRIT in the Center.
   
   (ALL enter the Temple and form a circle, the elemental officers in
   their quarters.)
   
   (FIRE moves to the center, and SPIRIT moves to the North.)
   
   (FIRE banishes.)
   
   _Second Part--He--the Salutation_
   
   (WATER moves to the center, and SPIRIT moves to the West.)
   
   WATER: _'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.' 'Let the
   rituals be rightly performed with joy & beauty! There are rituals of
   the elements and feasts of the times.' Tonight we celebrate the
   Festival of the Autumnal Equinox. Our Father the Sun enters the sign
   of Libra, the Balance, mid-way between Summer's heat and Winter's
   cold. Day and night are of equal length, and the cycles of Our Mother
   the Earth are poised in equilibrium.
   
   In this time of balance between the forces of Osiris the Father and
   Isis the Mother, we invoke the Child: Horus of the Two Horizons as
   Reconciler of their opposing powers. For as we are born into this
   world amidst the darkness of matter and the strife of contending
   forces, so must we endeavor to seek the Light through their
   reconciliation.
   
   __Third Part--Shin--the Invocation_
   
   SPIRIT: _Let us invoke the Balance of the elemental powers._
   
   (SPIRIT goes to the altar in the East, arranges the elemental weapons
   in a cruciform pattern, then returns to the center with the bell.)
   
   (SPIRIT reads the Prayer of the Sylphs (from Levi), while AIR takes
   the rose, salutes the East with a cross, and goes round the circle
   deosil, allowing all to smell the rose.)
   
   (SPIRIT reads the Prayer of the Salamanders (Levi), while FIRE takes
   the lamp, salutes the South with a cross, and goes round allowing all
   to gaze into the flame.)
   
   (SPIRIT reads the Prayer of the Undines (Levi), while WATER takes the
   cup, salutes the West with a circle, and goes round allowing all to
   taste the wine.)
   
   (SPIRIT reads the Prayer of the Gnomes (Levi), while EARTH takes the
   stone, salutes the North with a circle, and goes round allowing all to
   touch the stone.)
   
   SPIRIT: _Let us invoke the Unity of the elemental powers._
   
   AIR: _Light._
   
   WATER: _Darkness._
   
   AIR: _East._
   
   WATER: _West._
   
   AIR: _Air._
   
   WATER: _Water_
   
   SPIRIT: (strikes the bell) _I am the reconciler between them._
   
   FIRE: _Heat._
   
   EARTH: _Cold._
   
   FIRE: _South._
   
   EARTH: _North._
   
   FIRE: _Fire._
   
   EARTH: _Earth._
   
   SPIRIT: (strikes the bell) _I am the reconciler between them._
   
   AIR: _One Creator._
   
   FIRE: _One Preserver._
   
   WATER: _One Destroyer._
   
   NORTH: _One Redeemer._
   
   SPIRIT: (strikes the bell) _One reconciler between them. Horus of the
   Two Horizons, Who bringeth Unity out of Diversity, we invoke Thee!
   Thine is the Air with its movement. Thine is the Fire with its
   flashing flame. Thine is the Water with its ebb and flow. Thine is the
   Earth with its stability. Thou art in all things, and all things are
   in Thee._
   
   _Fourth Part--Vau--the Divination_
   
   (AIR moves to the center, and SPIRIT moves to the East.)
   
   AIR: Child of Isis and Osiris, Lord of the aeon, Reconciler of
   Opposites, speak to us now from the silence, giving us each an Oracle
   to guide us in our Paths.
   
   (ALL silently obtain individual Oracles, each participant using his or
   her preferred means of divination, and meditate for a few minutes.
   Alternatively, AIR goes round allowing each participant to draw a
   Tarot card.)
   
   _Fifth Part--He--the Valediction_
   
   (SPIRIT returns to the center, and AIR returns to the East.)
   
   SPIRIT: _Let us bid the elemental powers farewell.._
   
   (One at a time, the elemental officers salute their respective
   quarters with circled crosses, circle widdershins to the Altar in the
   East, and replace their weapons.)
   
   (EARTH moves to the center, and SPIRIT moves to the North.)
   
   EARTH: _Horus of the Two Horizons, Reconciler of Opposing Forces, let
   Thy power and wisdom abide with us as we strive toward the
   accomplishment of our Wills, the Great Work, the Summum Bonum, True
   Wisdom and Perfect Happiness._
   
   EARTH: _Let us adore the Lord of the aeon, in the words of the Stele
   of Revealing._
   
   (ALL turn to face the West.)
   
   ALL: _'Unity uttermost showed,'_ etc.
   
   (ALL turn to face the central altar.)
   
   ALL: _'Love is the law, love under will.'_
   
   (ALL quit the Temple in silence. A feast follows.)
   
   Note: This ritual was composed , on rather short notice, as a
   presentation for the local chapter of the Covenant of Unitarian
   Universalist Pagans (CUUPs). Originally based on the VIAOV formula and
   some elements of the Golden Dawn Equinox Ceremony, we later re-worked
   it to conform with the YHShVH formula. Those with lots of free time
   may wish to compare the two formulae, to decide for themselves which
   is more appropriate.
   
   
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  Reviews
  
   `Treat 'em Rough'
   
   Women of the Golden Dawn, by Mary K. Greer. Park Street Press, 1995
   (490 pp., $29.95).
   
   This book is of particular interest to women (such as Soror
   Manibhadra) who may have wondered if there were any female Magicians
   other than Dion Fortune. Greer focuses on four women who distinguished
   themselves outside the G.`.D.`. as well as in the Order. Maude Gonne
   was and still is a hero of the Irish independence movement. Of the
   four, she was probably the least influential on the Order's
   development, except for her deep and life-long involvment with Yeats.
   Annie Horniman is considered the founder of modern British Theatre and
   was the Mathers' source of income until her expulsion from the Order.
   Moina Mathers was a great artist who never reached her full potential,
   choosing instead to devote her life to MacGregor Mathers in a celibate
   marriage. She did, however, pioneer the use of collage. Moina also was
   the creative inspiration and source of the G.`.D.`.'s elaborate color
   system, and was the channeller for Mathers's talks with spirits.
   Perhaps my favorite of the four is Soror S.S.D.D, Florence Farr. She
   was a strong, independent woman, most well known outside of the
   G.`.D.`. for her long relationship with G.B. Shaw. She replaced
   Westcott when he was forced to resign as Praemonstrator of the
   G.`.D.`. in 1893. Florence Farr was respected by Crowley until she
   refused him admittance to the 5=6. She is probably the most
   responsible for the downfall of Mathers and the G.`.D.`. hierarchy.
   Upon discovering that the G.`.D.`. papers were forged and Fraulein
   Sprengel was a fake, she refused to cover for Mathers and Westcott and
   turned the information over to the entire membership of the Golden
   Dawn, thus sealing its fate.
   
   The book is full of inspirational stories of struggle and triumph in
   and out of the Order. It cites many of the subjects' works
   (particularly those of Farr, who wrote a great deal), motivating me to
   seek out these works and read them in their entirety. An interesting
   feature of the book is that it presents the four women as the four
   seasons, or four female archetypes, so that this book, like a G.`.D.`.
   ritual, is based on a magical formula. If only Mary Greer had not
   learned astrology this would be a great book: instead it is about
   twice as long as it needs to be and half as good. She spends an
   exorbitant amount of time explaining the astrological states of her
   subjects and how they should have seen events coming, since they were
   right there in their charts. Anyway, if you can ignore the
   pseudo-psychological astrological crap (this means skipping whole
   pages of text) and focus on the underlying history and biographies of
   these four women, the book is well worth the time and money. For
   further reading, several biographies of Maude Gonne and Annie Horniman
   are available. I also recommend King's _Astral Projection, Ritual
   Magic, and Alchemy_, which contains Golden Dawn instructional material
   by Farr.
   
   -- Soror SSDD
   (SameShT, Different Degree)
   
   
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   The Mirror Pool by Lisa Gerrard. 4AD, 1995 (@75 min., $14.99 CD, $9.99
   cass.).
   
   This is the first solo album by the female half of Dead Can Dance
   (Brendan Perry should have his out early next year), and the anxious
   listener could not ask for a more magnificent gift from the Muse.
   Working at her home studio in Australia and with the Victorian
   Philharmonic Orchestra, Lisa has created an iridescent collection of
   mystical transport. Early versions of two songs -- `Persian Love Song'
   and `Sanvean' -- appeared on the _Towards the Within_ concert. The
   rest are new, and with titles like `La Bas: Song of the Drowned' and
   `The Rite', fall firmly into the `Decadent' mode of early DCD albums,
   especially _Within the Realm of a Dying Sun_. This music has excellent
   potential for ritual and meditation, and as a reliable anchor against
   the tempests of the Era Vulgari.
   
   -- des Essientes
   
   
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   The Andrews Sisters (Capitol Collectors Series). Capitol Records, Inc,
   1991 (68 minutes, $14.99CD).
   
   First there was that $31 CD of Crowley reciting his poetry, and now
   the Original Thelemic Musical Group (or so legend has it) can be heard
   on compact disc. Somehow it doesn't seem right to hear the music of
   Soror Manibhadra's favorite swing-era vocal group without a lot of
   scratches and pops in the background, but it does sound nice on CD.
   The compilation, which includes three previously unreleased tracks, is
   entirely composed of material recorded in 1956-58. This, of course, is
   rather late in the Andrews Sisters' career, and while these late
   recordings are doubtless cleaner-sounding and better suited for
   reproduction on CD, they occasionally lack the vivacity of the earlier
   versions we all have on our scratchy old records. 'Bei Mir Bist Du
   Schon,' for example, seems a little stiff compared to the older
   recordings.
   
   One of the highlights of the album, for Andrews-heads and Javacrucian
   adepts alike, is the previously-unreleased 'Proper Cup of Coffee.' One
   of those 'silly songs' the sisters liked to sing, it tells of a Sultan
   who is sad because not one of his wives can make a decent cup of Java,
   and all he really wants is 'a proper cup of coffee from a proper
   copper coffee pot.' This track also features a memorable kazoo solo.
   
   The album's chief shortcoming is that the compilers have stressed
   well-known boogie-woogie and swing hits to the total exclusion of
   those slow and lyrical love songs which best display Patti's bel canto
   virtuosity. This exclusion is regrettable, and I hope forthcoming CD
   compilations will let us hear more of Patti's solos. There are,
   however, several songs which showcase the sisters' harmonizing, like
   the very fine version of 'Begin the Beguine.' Other songs like 'I Want
   to Linger' highlight how well the sisters could work together with
   their accompaniment.
   
   The compilation's disappointments aside, it's still a worthwhile
   addition to your Andrews Sisters collection.
   
   -- Frater O.T.M.
   
   
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   The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, by Joscelyn Godwin, Christian
   Chanel, and John P. Deveney. Weiser, 1995 (452 pp., $25.00).
   
   This book certainly provides more information about the H.B.L. than
   did the previously available sources: the first half of the book gives
   historical information about the colorful personalities involved in
   the order, and the second half offers a heap of primary-source
   material by and about the order.
   
   The H.B.L. secret documents are pretty disappointing, and consist
   mostly of the sort of metaphysical gup that was popular in the
   nineteenth century--you know, vague pseudo scientific theories about
   magnetism and verbose yammering about Great Cosmic Cycles that guide
   the course of history. There's some stuff lifted from Levi which will
   be familiar to students of Crowley or the G.`.D.`., and there's some
   occasional stuff about sex to revive the reader's interest (though an
   international sex witch like Soror Manibhadra would find this material
   pretty tame).
   
   More interesting and more entertaining, though more frustrating, is
   the historical section. Unfortunately, the material is not organized
   chronologically; instead it is grouped anecdotally around the major
   figures in the order's history, which makes it a little difficult for
   the reader to keep in mind what was going on when. I suspect the
   authors chose to present their research in this odd fashion to give
   the impression of a connected story, since it seems that they really
   don't know much about the chronology of the order. Even a century ago
   the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor was pretty obscure, and modern
   researchers just don't have much to go on. For example, O.T.O.
   initiates would be very eager to learn more about the Hermetic
   Brotherhood of Light, which was somehow involved in the early history
   of O.T.O. The entire discussion of this H.B.L. offshoot is one
   sentence on p. 67, which informs us that the Hermetic Brotherhood of
   Light was either founded or reorganized in 1895, at either Chicago or
   Boston, and that it 'fed the streams of sexual practice flowing into
   the Ordo Templi Orientis....' While that is more than I knew
   previously, it is not quite as much as I had hoped to learn from this
   book.
   
   -- either K. or C. Kellner
   
   
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   The Grimoire of Armadel, translated and edited by S.L. MacGregor
   Mathers. Weiser, 1995 (79 pp., $20.00).
   
   This is not the version of the _Clavicula Salomonis_ attributed to
   Armadel, nor, for that matter, is it anything attributed to or
   entitled _Almadel_ or _Arbatel_. It is, in fact, the _Grimoire, ou la
   Cabale_ attributed to Armadel. It's very Christian, very brief, and a
   little wacky, but it has lots and lots of sigils. You may want it for
   your grimoire collection, but you probably won't use it much.
   
   -- Muhammad ibn Ja'far al-Madel
   
   
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   The Wars of Gods and Men by Zecharia Sitchin. Avon Books, 1985 (377
   pp., $5.99).
   
   The basic premise of this book (and the others in Sitchin's _Earth
   Chronicles_ series) is that the ancient Sumerian Gods were in fact
   Space Aliens from the 12th Planet, Nibiru, who came to Earth 450,000
   years ago to mine gold to stabilize their homeworld's atmosphere. The
   cities and monuments of the ancient Near East were the Spaceports and
   Control Centres for this operation, and humans were created by genetic
   engineering as mine labourers. This book deals intimately with the
   rivalries among the Gods and ends with the atomic destruction of Sodom
   and Gommorah.
   
   Actually, this is a rather interesting collection of data from
   mythological and archaeological sources that throws some light on a
   few holes in the modern `scientific' view of pre-history -- the
   Geomantic alignments of the first Sumerian cities is especially
   interesting -- I just wish the author's rocket fetish would abate.
   
   -- Adam Weishaupt
   
   
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   Initiations and Initiates in Tibet by Alexandra David-Neel. Dover
   Books, 1993 (224 pp., $5.95).
   
   This is a sequel to the author's _Magic and Mystery in Tibet_ and
   deals more specifically with the subject of spiritual discipline and
   practice. Mme. David-Neel discusses the concept of the spiritual
   Master, his relationship with the student, and the many differing
   types of Initiations and Empowerments available in Tibetan Buddhism,
   sometimes in sufficient detail for real use by the reader, (though
   unfortunately, she does not include the rare Mantra, OM MANI BHADRA
   HUM!) There is also some interesting material on the transmission of
   Initiatory lineages.
   
   The only problem with this book is that, like the rest of Mme.
   David-Neel's work, it suffers from a certain primness and
   rationalistic reductionism quite out of tune with its subject, and
   with Tibetan culture generally. Even so, it is still quite useful.
   
   -- Dr. Fu-Manchu
   
   
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   The Soul of Lilith, by Marie Corelli. American News Company, 1892 (356
   pp., original price not noted).
   
   Corelli was Queen Victoria's favorite novelist, which should tell you
   a lot about the book, but Crowley was also familiar with Corelli's
   work and honored her with a reference to her toe-jam in one of his
   better poems, 'Birthday Ode' in Snowdrops, owners of the 1986 Teitan
   Press edition will note that the editor has confused Marie Corelli
   with Mabel Collins, the book's charm is more antiquarian than
   literary, i.e. it is quaintly Victorian but is no masterpiece by
   modern standards, it is, however, not without appeal to the occultist,
   as the tale revolves around magical themes, its main character is
   determined, Crowley-like, to master the secrets of life through the
   power of will, and there are several amusing jabs at Theosophy, there
   is also an unintentionally hilarious character--an idealized
   self-portrait of the author--who voices all of Corelli's complaints
   about society, over and over and over, her style is long-winded and
   moralizing, and her characters and situations are none too believable,
   four of the main characters, e.g., are non-Muslim Arabs (three
   Christians and a pagan), two of whom are uneducated peasants who speak
   flawless English, and one of whom is blonde, but all her faults
   notwithstanding, we must hail Marie Corelli as a Past Master of the
   Bewildering Run-On Sentence, in fine, then, the book is entertaining,
   if not wholly in the way its author intended, I would, however,
   recommend that you not buy some arm-and-a-leg Kessinger xerox, but
   wait till you can find it for $1.50 in a junk-shop in Kokomo.
   
   -- A. Quiller III
   
   
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   The New Satanists by Linda Blood. Warner Books, 1994 (244 pp., $5.50).
   
   A sort of memoir by a woman who claims she was seduced into the Temple
   of Set and had an affair with Michael Aquino. Aside from the insiders
   details of TS, it is mostly a re-hash of the usual legends with an
   emphasis on the neo-Nazi connection and Satanic child abuse.
   Unfortunately, the few details of Setian life and ritual that Ms.
   Blood (her real name apparently) shares with us seem far too shallow
   to give her narrative the required air of verisimilitude.
   
   -- Adam Weishaupt
   
   
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   The R'lyeh Text by Robert Turner, edited by George Hay. Skoob Books,
   1995 (175 pp., $11.99).
   
   This latest in a long line of H.P. Lovecraft pastiches is a sequel to
   Hay's bogus _Necronomicon_ of the 70's, and it reassembles all the
   usual suspects from that project for ... more of the same. Mr Hay's
   editorial style is unusual in that, whereas the editor's normal job is
   to prune irrelevencies leaving a concise text, here he has left
   _nothing but irrelevencies_ to baffle the reader's mind. From the
   crocodile-infested cover to Colin Wilson's rambling introduction to
   Patricia Shore's oblique concluding essay we are left feeling
   strangely ... unfulfilled. It is especially ironic to see that Robert
   Turner is behind this, as he spent a good portion of his _Elizabethan
   Magic_ fulminating against the Golden Dawn for making `inauthentic'
   additions to Dee's Enochian system, and now he's marketing _this_ as
   the decoded contents of Dee's cypher manuscripts! The supposed `main
   text' itself is rather inadequate and certainly nothing compared to
   the original it attempts to ape.
   
   Quite honestly, if these people continue to take their own
   insipidities and pass them off as my work, I will have no choice but
   to take the matter up with my Patrons.
   
   -- A. Alhazred
   
   
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   The Voudoun Gnostic Workbook, by Michael Bertiaux. Magickal Childe,
   1988 ($29.95).
   
   Michael Bertiaux has at last publicly released a compendium of his
   varied instructional material relating to his variety of modern
   esoteric Voudoun and Gnostic magic. Subdivided into four volumes
   (_Voudoo Energies_, _Gnostic Energies_, _Elemental Sorcery_ and
   _Elemental Theogony_), the book is unique in that it affords an
   overview into one magician's largely synthetic digest of an exhaustive
   traditional education in occultism, with special emphasis on Haitian
   occultism. I was fortunate enough to have access to Bertiaux's course
   materials as a teenage student of occultism. Although I was never a
   formal member of his various groups (except for the Villatte
   succession E.G.C. in which I am a Bishop), I can testify to the
   utility of his approach. Does he make a lot of it up? Yes, no doubt
   about it. Will he pull your leg? Yes, if you let him. Does it work?
   That depends if you learn how to develop your own system. That, at any
   rate, was my experience. Highly recommended.
   
   -- L. W. deLaurence
   
   
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   The Wizard's Bible by Louis G. Sikes. International Imports, 1987 (128
   pp., $6.95).
   
   Hardly.
   
   -- Taliesyn
   
   
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  IAO Camp Calendar of Events
  
   
   
    Autumn, 1995 E.V.
    
      October
      
   Fri. 6: Regular Camp Meeting, 8 p.m.
   Thur. 12: "Lesser Feast" of the Prophet
   Fri. 13 -- Sun. 15: Gnostic Mass Seminar in East Chicago
   Fri. 20: First Degree Initiation Study, 7 p.m.
   Fri. 27: First Degree Initiation Study, 7 p.m.
   Sun. 29: Sor. Shekinah's Lecture on the Tarot, 3 p.m. at Morgenstern
   Booksellers.
   Tue. 31: Hallowe'en
   
      November
      
   Fri. 3: Regular Camp Meeting, 8 p.m.
   Fri. 10: Second Degree Initiation Study, 7 p.m.
   Fri. 17: Second Degree Initiation Study, 7 p.m.
   Fri. 24: Second Degree Initiation Study, 7 p.m.
   
      December
      
   Fri. 1: Regular Camp Meeting, 8 p.m., "Greater Feast" of the Prophet
   Fri. 8: Third Degree Initiation Study, 7 p.m.
   Fri. 15: Third Degree Initiation Study, 7 p.m.
   Fri. 22: Third Degree Initiation Study, 7 p.m.
   Thur. 21: Winter Solstice Ceremony, 7 p.m.
   Fri. 29: Third Degree Initiation Study, 7 p.m.
   Sun. 31: Vulgar New Year party
   
   Unless otherwise noted, all events take place at the IAO Camp Temple.
   Dates and times may change, so please call ahead to confirm.
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   _Love is the law, love under will._

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