MAYBE QUARTERLY - Vol 1 / Issue 1 - Occult
Theocracy
Occult Theocracy
[Some speculate that Edith Starr Miller, pictured
here, whose pen name was Lady Queensborough, died
prematurely under unusual circumstances because a
Masonic assasination contract had been put out on
her life for exposing the Judaic-Zionist-Masonic
occult conspiracy. In any case, what follows is
a brief commentary by Bentkowski, followed by an
excerpt from Queensborough's
Occult Theocracy.]
By Edith Starr Miller
Introduction
© 2004 Kent Daniel Bentkowski
A few years back, a little known book dealer was
offering a curious title. It was called Occult
Theocracy by a woman named Edith Starr Miller
using the pen name of Lady Queenborough. The book
is a fascinating look into the various occult
traditions from the 16th century to the early
20th century (the book was privately published in
1933), after the author died in mysterious
circumstances. Perhaps, she had revealed too much
of the truth? After I had the chance to study the
book intimately, I could certainly understand why
someone wanted Miller to stop revealing esoteric
secrets of the various occult orders reviewed in
her book.
I am under no oath of any organized lodge system;
I am self-initiated so that I may speak freely
about any aspect of this subject. The point and
intent of my teaching is to explore some of the
knowledge to which the vast majority on this
planet have been prevented proper access --- the
knowledge and the wisdom of the ancient magi.
This particular book dealer was offering the book
for a ridiculously low price, considering its’
rarity. To be honest, it is one of the most
useful books I have ever seen on occult history.
I would honestly consider this to be one of the
most treasured history books in my entire
library. In its’ 741 (!!) pages, the book packs
quite a punch. Easily one of the best things
about it is that it was written and published at
a time when people still cared about the greater
mysteries of life and the universe. This was
decades before the highly-insulting pejorative
term ‘conspiracy theory’ came into being; and way
before the Kennedy assassinations --- JFK, RFK,
and JFK Jr.
The following is a book excerpt regarding matters
of importance to both the study and understanding
of magick and the workings of the various occult
groups throughout history, from the 16th century
until the first third of the 20th century.
However, this essay will deal exclusively with
the subjects of occultism and in particular, the
O.T.O. It has been typed exactly as it appears in
the original book. It makes for captivating
reading and should be of certain interest to the
students of Maybe Logic Academy, as it covers
material in a depth that is almost non-existent
in today’s world.
However, one unfortunate thing about the book, is
that by her comments, Miller appears to have been
a devout fundamentalist Christian, and any and
everything that is the least bit different or
against the strict dogma of the Catholic Church,
she labels Satanic. Some have attempted to label
this work unreliable, because of Miller’s
religious views. However, a great deal of this
material has since been validated by the work of
subsequent researchers. Of the material here that
cannot be found anywhere else, Miller’s
validation above speaks toward the probability
that it was accurate to the time in which it was
written.
Frater Kentroversy
Buffalo, New York USA
Introduction
Lady Queenborough (Edith Starr Miller), 1933
This book makes no claim to literary merit. It is
simply a work of research and documentation,
giving evidence and facts which I trust will help
the reader in drawing his own conclusions.
In the course of my researches as an
international political investigator into the
causes of social unrest, I have probed the depths
of infamy which now surrounds, not ours only, but
also the next generation, whose right to lead a
decent life should be as good as was ours. As a
woman of the world I have witnessed things the
existence of which I did not suspect and I have
realised that, due to my ‘protected’ position in
life, they should never have been expected to
have come to my knowledge. Let me tell every
woman, how evermuch ‘protected,’ whether
Dairymaid or Duchess, that the safeguards which
she imagines to be thrown around herself are but
a mirage of the past. Her own and her children's
future are at the mercy of those ‘forces’ the
activities of which it has been my business for
the last ten years, to follow as one of a group
of investigators.
Today, most of the good people are afraid to be
good. They strive to be broadminded and tolerant!
It is fashionable to be tolerant but mostly
tolerant of evil --- and this new code has
reached the proportions of demanding intolerance
of good. The wall of resistance to evil has thus
been broken down and no longer affords protection
to those who, persecuted by evil doers, stand in
need of it.
Worse still there are cases wherein virtuous
people's good name is relentlessly ‘filched from
them,’ but no effort will be made by the presumed
good people to rally to their defense. Happy are
they if they themselves can discover the cause of
their ruin, material or moral, either partial or
total.
In offering this book to the public, I have
endeavoured to expose some of the means and
methods used by a secret world, one might almost
say an underworld, to penetrate dominate and,
destroy not only the so-called upper classes, but
also the better portion of all classes. There are
those who feel confident that if they refrain
from joining any society or group and avoid
entanglements no harm can befall them. To such,
let me say that situations can be, and are,
created for innocent dupes every day and wrecked
homes are the direct result. Neither fortune nor
a blameless life led, as it were, in an island of
strict virtue in the midst of a tumultuous sea of
evil, spells security.
Irrefutable evidence of a particular example of
underworld tyranny has come into my possession.
The victim's guilt was her reluctance to step
from virtue into the mire of evil which
surrounded her. Moreover she was intolerant of
evil and sought to oppose and destroy it. The
case of her persecution at the hands of her foes
is complete. She belonged to what is termed
Society as did also some of the other actors in
this bewildering drama. The world, social,
financial legal and, shall we say also, the
underworld, leaving to this word its generally
accepted literal meaning, knows them. So many
Jekylls and Hydes stalk about unsuspectingly in
our midst!
From such an example I have been led to the
conclusion that, among others, three factors can
help one from being completely destroyed by the
combined forces of that ‘underworld’: a flawless
life, independent means and real friends, all
three of which must be backed by a fearless
determination to fight evil on all points of the
Masonic compass.
In these days when apparently vice triumphs and
virtue must be penalized, it may be well for all
of us to fight the undertow by which our children
may be dragged under and must of necessity
perish. Vice rings and secret societies form but
one vortex into which youth is drawn and
destroyed whilst the "good people", because of
their ignorance, look on helplessly in despair.
It is for their instruction that this book has
been written. Its compilation has taken several
years and, had it not been for the generous
efforts of one of my friends, Mme de Shishmareff
and of several other persons, I would never have
been able to complete the task which I set out to
accomplish.
What must concern us all now is the protection of
decency or, in other words ugrav; Equal rights
ugrav; for such as are not vice adepts.
This book is not complete. It will never be
complete, but for the present it must remain as a
study of the root conditions which have led to
present day subversive upheavals and the
overthrow of the principles of Christian
civilization.
Edith Queenborough
December, 1931
The Meaning of Occultism
Lady Queenborough (Edith Starr Miller), 1933
A summary and some explanation of the principal
forms of occultism must precede the chapters
which deal with the historical side of this
subject, and the objections, those of the
credulous as well as those of the skeptics, must
be foreseen and forestalled. Many persons are
tempted to deny, arbitrarily and without
examination, statements on matters of which they
have no previous knowledge, but even the possible
criticism of such as those must have received due
consideration.
In this age of wireless and aeroplanes, one of
the fads of the modern highbrow is to scoff at
such things as sorcerers, magic, and evocations
as old wives’ tales. Tales of ancient history!
There are people who refuse to believe in the
existence of the supernormal, even when
confronted with the evidence. Such are the
skeptics who deny everything that magic, white or
black, has now as many adepts as ever, nor can
they distinguish between the different schools of
spiritism.
First, there are the charlatans whose tricks in
the line of Spiritism are generally sooner or
later unmasked. Second, there are the Occultists
who operate in secrecy and hide their meetings
from all but initiates with the greatest care.
Many persons are duped by charlatans, so the
skeptics persuade themselves of the absolute
non-existence of all diabolical practices in
modern times. They are wrong. For Occultism
flourishes now in Europe, Asia, and America. The
Black Mass is said today in Paris and London, and
Satanism has its faithful followers. On this
subject, one of the most eminent writers was Carl
Hackse, who, under the pseudonym of Dr. Bataille,
made an extensive study of Occultism and gave his
extremely exaggerated views of it in the book ‘Le
Diable au XIXº Siecle.’
The following pages of this chapter are mostly
either quotations or abridgements from that work:
ocircAccording to the teaching of the Christian
churches, God allows demons certain limited
powers, but they are not permitted to open the
gates of hell and release a spirit at the request
of one who evokes the dead. The dead, even
dammed, will not show themselves if evoked, nor
would evocations be answered by those who had
succeeded in attaining the kingdom of heaven, but
devils can and do, says the Church, substitute
themselves for the deceased. They will
impersonate a dead person whose appearance is
demanded by invocations.
ocircIt is also admitted that the fallen angels
or spirits will often manifest to people without
being called. The theological hagiography cite
many cases of diabolical apparitions to saints,
apparitions which these saints have been able to
repel and conquer agrav; but what skeptics and
agnostic Christians alike ignore is that besides
the drawing room mediums, mediums for diversion,
there are occultists whose vile practices are
veiled in the profoundest mystery. These men,
whose moral sense is absolutely perverted,
believe in Lucifer, but they believe him to be
the equal of God and worship him secretly.
Modern Occultism is on the one hand practical
Cabala and on the other, Indian Yogism, both of
which have always had their adepts more or less
openly.
The Cabala is Occult Science in itself. It is the
secret theology of the initiates, theology
essentially Satanic. In a word, the
counter-theology. Our God, the God of the
Christians, is the power of evil in the eyes of
the Cabalists: and for them, the power of good,
the real God, is Lucifer.
ocircThe Cabala teaches magic or the art of
intercourse with spirits and supernatural beings.
ocircOne cannot be a convinced Cabalist without
soon becoming a magician and devoting oneself to
the practices of occultism.
ocircNot that our Cabalists or contemporary
magicians practice all the different branches of
occultism. Some of these have been abandoned and
others are only used by charlatans for the
exploitation of superstitious persons, but a
great many, precisely the most criminal and
perverse, are observed in the hidden dens of our
modern Luciferians.
Magic has two divisions:
The first is divining magic, subdivided into
several branches of which the principal are: *
Astrology * Palmistry * Anthropomancy *
Oneirocritics * Aeromancy * Hydromancy *
Pyromancy * Cartomancy
The second is operative magic, also subdivided
into several branches of which the principal are:
* Alchemy * Mesmerism * Necromancy * Theurgy
There are moreover some superstitious practices
not specially classed.
Bataille thus defines some of the foregoing:
Astrology ucircDivining the future by the stars.
The casting of horoscopes is its most prevalent
practice.
Palmistry ucircDivining the future by the hand.
Anthropomancy ucircThis is one of the practices
supposed at present to have fallen into disuse.
It is a horrible, savage abomination, and
consists of disemboweling a human being for the
purpose of divining the future by inspection of
the entrails.
Medieval history accuses Gilles de Retz of
perpetrating this crime on children, whom he
lured to his castle for the purpose. Tacitus says
that the Druids, in ancient Britian, used to
consult theur Gods by looking into the entrails
of their captives.
Oneirocritics ucircDivining the future through
the interpretation of dreams.
Aeromancy ucircDivination by the study of aerial
phenomena. Hydromancy ucircDivination by the
study of liquids or aquatic phenomena.
Pyromancy ucircDivination by fire.
Cartomancy ucircDivination by cards. [KDB: such
as tarot cards.]
There is no need to expatiate further on the more
or less grotesque means employed by those who
follow these false sciences. One must be somewhat
erratic to imagine that the future can be
foretold by coffee grounds, by the antics of
flames in a grate, by the order in which shuffled
cards will be drawn, or by the odd shapes assumed
by wind-driven clouds! When events corroborate
predictions made under these conditions, it can
be attributed to the use of clairvoyance, but
those fortune tellers, some of whom have a
thorough knowledge of the rules governing the
practices of these absurdities, are the first to
distrust their art.
Such expedients, disdained by the real
occultists, are too unimportant to be worthy of
note. It is quite another matter to expose the
Satanists, ignored by the public, whose sects,
bearing different names in different countries,
constitute, in reality, only one, single, secret
religion whose fanatics, imbued with the spirit
of evil, will sacrifice themselves blindly to
their cause.
Throughout the universe, all Luciferian and
Satanic rites bear a basic similarity.
Dealing principally with the practices of
contemporary operative magic, it is Bataille’s
opinion that as regards the mysterious art of
alchemy, its theory is called Hermetic Science
and has a double objective, namely the discovery
of the philosopher’s stone, a substance capable
of transmuting base metals into gold and
drinkable gold, or the Elixir of long life which
is a magic potion endowed with the properties
necessary to prolong human life indefinitely or,
at least, to maintain in old age the faculties of
youth. Alchemy as a science seems now obsolete.
The Alchemists knew the existence of microbes and
toxins long before the medical discoveries of the
present age. The laboratories of Satanic
bacteriology have been working, for a long time,
on cultures of bacilli or solutions of their
toxic properties which, even when administered in
infinitesimal doses, mixed with food or drink
disseminate disease and death, where it is judged
necessary by the ocircMastersö that life is to be
destroyed. In these cases, deaths occur from
apparently natural causes!
He further says that Magnetic Mesmerism is the
occult medicine of the Cabalists. One must
naturally not confuse the scientists who are at
present making researches in hypnotism and
suggestion, in the interest of science, with the
emulators of Cagliostro whose aim is to procure
diversions, often wicked and immoral. Scientific
magnetism us still an obscure question being
studied by theologians, physiologists and
criminologists, whereas that of the adepts of
magic has nothing to do with this; it is a branch
of the subterranean work that is nearing its goal
today.
Necromancy is partly divining magic and partly
operative magic. This practice consists in the
evocation of the spirits of the dead. Spiritism
and rapping of tables are necromancy, but if all
spiritists are not necessarily Cabalists, all
Cabalists are practicing necromancy. People are
far from suspecting the progress made by
necromancy along these lines. Freemasonry is
yearly more and more invaded by the spiritist
element to the extent that, in 1889, an
international convention of spiritist Freemasons
attended by about 500 delegates was held at the
Hotel of the Grand Orient in France, rue Cadet,
Paris.
This was only a beginning!
Eliphas Levi, a renowned occultist of the 19th
century, writing in Histoire de la Magie, in the
following words, sounds a warning to those who,
recklessly, would venture into the domain of the
occult.
ocircThe experiences of theurgy and necromancy
are always disastrous to those who indulge in
them. When one has once stood on the threshold of
the other world one must die and almost
invariably under terrible conditions. First
giddiness, then catalepsy followed by madness. It
is true that the atmosphere is disturbed, the
woodwork cracks and doors tremble and groan in
the presence of certain persons, after a series
of intoxicating acts. Weird sounds, sometimes
bloody signs, will appear spontaneously on paper
or linen. They are always the same and are
classed by magicians as Diabolical Writings. The
very sight of them induces a state of convulsion
or ecstacy in the mediums who believe themselves
to be seeing spirits. Thus Satan, the Spirit of
Evil, is transfigured for them into an angel of
light but, before they will manifest, these
so-called spirits require sympathetic excitement
produced by sexual intercourse on the part of
their devotees. Hands must be placed in hands,
feet on feet, they must breathe in each others
faces, these acts often being followed by others
of an obscene character. The initiates, reveling
in these forms of excesses believe themselves to
be the elect of God and the arbiters of destiny.
They are the successors to the fakirs of India.
No warning will save them.
ocircTo cure such illnesses, the priests of
Greece used to terrify their patients by
concentration and exaggeration of the evil in one
giant paroxysm. They made the adept sleep in the
cave of Trophonius. After some preliminary
preparations, he descended to a subterranean
cavern in which he was left without light soon to
be prostrated by intoxicating gases. Then the
visionary, still in the throes of ghastly dreams
caused by incipient asphyxia, was rescued, being
carried off prophesying on his tripod. These
tests gave their nervous systems such a shock
that the patients never dared mention evocations
of phantoms again.
ocircTheurgy is the highest degree of occultism.
Necromancy is limited to the summoning of dead
souls, but the Theurgists of the nineteenth
century evoke entities qualified to them as
genii, angels of light, exalted spirits, spirits
of fire, etc. In their meetings, scattered
throughout the world, they worship Lucifer. The
three mysterious letters J .’. B .’. M .’., that
the common initiates see in the Masonic Temples,
are reproduced in the meeting rooms of the
Luciferians, but they no longer mean Jakin,
Bohaz, Mahabone, as in the Lodges, nor Jacques
Bourguignon Molay, as with the Knights Kadosch;
in Theurgy these three letters mean; Jesus
Bethlemitus Maledictus. Theurgy is therefore pure
Satanism.
ocircMoreover it is important to note that the
Cabalists, admitted to the mysteries of Theurgy,
never mention the word Satan. They look upon
certain dissident adepts who invoke the devil
under the name of Satan as heretics, whose system
they call Goety, or Black Magic.
Between these two types of devil worshippers, the
Luciferian occultists and the Satanists, there is
a difference that must not be overlooked.
Luciferians never call their infernal master
‘Spirit of Evil’ or ‘Father and Creator of
Crime.’ Albert Pike even forbade the use of the
word Satan under any circumstances.
There is indeed a distinction between the
Satanists and Luciferians. The Satanists,
described by Mr. Huysmans in his book, La Bas,
are chiefly persons mentally deranged by the use
and abuse of drugs, while suffering from a
peculiar form of hysteria, accuse the God of the
Christians of having betrayed the cause of
humanity. They are persons who recognize that
their God Satan occupies a position in the
supernatural sphere, inferior to that of the
Christian deity. On the other hand the
Luciferians or the initiates of kindred rites,
while still labouring under a strange delusion,
act deliberately and glorify Lucifer as the
principle of good. To them, he is the equal of
the God of the Christians whom they recognize as
the principle of evil.
It is necessary to recognize the distinction
which exists between Luciferians and Satanists,
for their two cults bear each other no
resemblance, although Lucifer-Satan manifests
indiscriminately to his faithful followers of
both dominations. One must not, however, imagine
that the pride and satisfaction he derives from
this adulation acts as an inducement of to making
him appear whenever he is called! Occultists of
all schools agree that nothing is more capricious
than the conduct of spirits when evoked!
It is well moreover to remember that Luciferian
occultism is no novelty, nor must one make the
mistake of confusing it with ordinary
Freemasonry, the Lodges of which are only private
clubs.
Many authors have published books on Freemasonry,
some printing the rituals, some their personal
observations on certain facts, but few of these
authors, having passed themselves into occult
masonry, the real masonry of the Cabalistic
degrees which is in touch with all secret
societies, Masonic as well as non-Masonic, have
been able to state that Luciferian Occultism
controls Freemasonry.
Though this is indeed the case, neither the
President of the Council of the Order of the
Grand Orient of France, the supreme chief of
French Freemasonry, nor the president of the
Supreme Council of Scottish Rites will be
received at the meeting of a simple Luciferian
ceremony just on account of his title and dignity
unless, at the same time, he possesses a diploma
of Cabalistic grade which requires another
initiation. On the other hand, the first
Oddfellow from Canada, a member of the Chinese
San-ho-hui of China, a Luciferian fakir from
India, all these can visit at their pleasure
lodges and inner shrines of ordinary Freemasonry
in all countries because, in each one of the
Satanic sects, the directing authority is
exercised by heads who belong to the most exalted
Masonic degrees of the different rites, degrees
which are for them of secondary importance. These
chiefs, at the request of their subordinates of
the Luciferian societies, deliver to them freely
the diplomas necessary to obtain admittance
everywhere, as well as the sacred words and
yearly and half-yearly passwords of all the
Masonic rites of the globe.
Luciferian Occultism, as has been said before, is
therefore not a novelty, but it bore a different
name in the early days of Christianity. It was
called Gnosticism and its founder was Simon the
Magician. The Gnostics were not ordinary heretics
but constituted an anti-Christian sect. To
deceive the multitude, they affected disagreement
with certain doctrines of the Apostles, and the
chiefs selected from among the initiates those
destined to receive, in secret council, the
Satanic revelation. Gnosticism is marked with the
seal of Lucifer. It is contemporary with the
Apostle Peter and has continued, without
interruption, down to the present day,
periodically changing its mask.
The seven founders of Freemasonry were all
Gnostics; Magi of the English Rose Cross, whose
names were: Theophile Desaguilers, named Chaplain
of the Prince of Wales by George II; Anderson,
the clergyman, an Oxford graduate and preacher to
the King of England; George Payne, James King,
Calvert, Lumden-Madden, and Elliott.
Gnosticism, as the mother of Freemasonry, has
imposed its mark in the very centre of the chief
symbol of this association. The most conspicuous
emblem which one notices on entering a Masonic
temple, the one which figures on the seals, on
the rituals, everwhere in fact, appears in the
middle of the interlaced square and compass, it
is the five-pointed star framing the letter G.
Different explanations of this letter G are given
to the initiates. In the lower grades, one is
taught that it signifies Geometry. To the
brothers frequenting the lodges admitting women
as members, it is revealed that the mystic letter
means Generation, but the revelation is attended
to with great secrecy. Finally, to the Knights
Kadosch, the enigmatic letter becomes the initial
of the doctrine of the perfect initiates which is
Gnosticism. This explanation is no longer an
imaginary fabrication. It is Gnosticism which is
the real meaning of the G in the flamboyant star,
for, after the grade of Kadosch (a Hebrew word
meaning consecrated), the Freemasons dedicate
themselves to the glorification of Gnosticism (or
anti-Christianity) which is defined by Albert
Pike as ocircthe soul and marrow of Freemasonry.ö
The G which the Freemasons place in the middle of
the flamboyant star signifies Gnosticism and
Generation, the most sacred words of the ancient
Cabala, see Eliphas Levi, Dogme et Rituel de la
Haute Magie, vol. II, pg. 97.
Let us add that the ancient mysteries of
Gnosticism have been known and published in the
past. There is no difference between the
Gnosticism of the early ages of Christianity and
modern occultism. The fundamental principle of
Gnosticism was the double divinity (dual
principle) and this is exactly the theological
theory of modern occultism. The Gnostics claimed
that the good God was Lucifer and that Christ was
the devil, that what the Christians call vice was
for them virtue, and to the Christian dogma they
opposed Gnosticism, a word meaning human
knowledge.
Early Gnosticism had its doctors; the
Basilideans, Ophites and Valentinians. Basilide
of Alexandria, one of them lived at the end of
the first century. He taught metempsychosis and
the principles underlying present day Theosophy.
His system resembles that of the spiritists of
the nineteenth century who have invented nothing,
for they copy Gnosticism even in its theory in
the transmigration of souls. Basilide affirmed
that he was the reincarnation of Plato. Whoever
has penetrated into assemblies of modern
theurgists can attest that one of its current
theories is that of reincarnation.
After Basilide came Montanus who died in 212.
Montanus was a grand master of the art of
divination. The Rite of Mizraim (a Freemasonry
said to be Egyptian) copies slavishly, in its
Cabalistic grades, all the phantasmagoria of
Montanus. This Gnostic doctor plunged himself
into ecstasies and, according to history, he had
two women, Maximilla and Priscilla, trained to
act as his accomplices. The Gnostics came in
crowds to admire their contortions worthy of
epileptics. They had the sacred illness, and were
considered two saints of Satan. In the assemblies
of the sect, when they went into frenzies and
prophesied, their oracular sayings were listened
to with the veneration by the adepts. Were they
acting a part, were they just mediums or
somnambulists, or were they what the Roman
Catholics call ‘possessed?’
This is a hard question to answer.
A modern example of the influence exercised by
occult organizations on the destinies of mankind
is to be found in the history of The Holy
Alliance, founded in 1815 by Alexander I, emperor
of Russia. This was originally a union of
monarchs pledged to support the Christian Church
and to stem the rising tide of radicalism,
revolution, and subversion.
In L’Histoire de la Magie (pg. 467), Eliphas Levi
states that the spiritist sect of ocircThe
Rescuers of Louis XVI,ö wishing to penetrate this
organization to use it for their own purposes,
succeeded in insinuating one of their illumines
into the good graces of the Czar. This was Madame
Bouche, known to the adepts as Sister Salome.
After eighteen months spent at the Russian Court,
during which she had many secret interviews with
the Emperor, she was supplanted by another
medium-somnambulist of the sect, the famous
Madame de Krudner who acquired so great an
influence over the Czar that his ministers became
alarmed at the situation thus created.
Levi thus describes the fall of the favorite:
ocircOne day, as the emperor was leaving her, she
barred his passage crying ‘God reveals to me that
your life is in great danger. An assassin is in
the palace.’ The Emperor, alarmed, caused the
palace to be searched and a man, armed with a
dagger, was found. He confessed, when questioned,
that he had been introduced into the palace by
Madame de Krudner herself.ö
One wonders if the whole affair was not simply
the result of a clever intrigue calculated to get
rid of the prophetess. As such it was singularly
successful for Madame de Krudner was summarily
banished from the Russian Court.
In De la Maconnerie Occulte (pgs. 87-88), J.M.
Ragon tells us that ocircscience counts four
kinds of somnambulism: the natural, the
symptomatic, the magnetic, and the ecstatic.
ocircNatural and symptomatic somnambulism are two
essentially different states, one occurring only
at night, the other by day as well as by night.
The conduct of the subject is different under the
two conditions.
Magnetic and ecstatic somnambulism differ from
one another insomuch as the one is commanded
(willed) and the other is not. The first is
artificial, the other natural. In the first, the
subject is dependent; in the second, he acts
independently. That is why induced somnambulism
cures the natural when substituted for it.
ocircA lucid somnambulist bears no more
resemblance to a man asleep then he does to an
active man awake.ö
When the Gnostics practiced magic, they evoked
the spirits of the dead exactly as do the
occultists of today. Dawning Christianity was
prolific in miracles so, in order to fight it,
the disciples of Gnosticism had recourse to
diabolical marvels. In this respect, are not
contemporaneous spiritists, with their rapping
tables and apparitions, Gnostics under another
name?
Secret Gnostic meetings lead to depravity, as the
adepts indulge in every kind of turpitude and
obscenity, often under the influence of drugs
such as Indian Hemp (Cannabis Indica) or Opium,
the medicinal properties of which, when
administered under certain conditions, are
provocative of mediumistic phenomena.
Thus debauched, their moral sense weakened,
initiates are ready to work. They work, they
fall, and, as henceforth, is subject to the will
of the Hidden Masters who, according to their
secret designs, will lead their slaves to power,
or a semblance of power, or else to their
downfall. To use the words of ‘Inquire Within,’
in Light-Bearers of Darkness (pg. 118),
ocircThese masters --- doubtless identical with
the terrible power of behind the horrors of
Russia’s sufferings and World Revolution --- have
in reality no interest in soul or astral
development, except as a means of forming passive
illuminized tools, completely controlled in mind
and actions.ö
‘Inquire Within’ further suggests that there is
ocirca group of flesh-and-blood men, who can form
etheric links, from any distance, with the
leaders of these societies which can ‘slay or
make alive,’ intoxicating, blinding, and if need
be, destroying unwary men and women, using them
as instruments or ‘Light-bearers’ to bring to
pass this mad and evil scheme of World Dominion
by the God-People --- the Cabalistic Jew.ö A
further explanation of the phenomenon of induced
mediumship is given us by the same author who
quotes the following lines from Eliphas Levi’s
History of Magic:
ocircThis may take place when, through a series
of almost impossible exercises agrav; our nervous
system, having been habituated to all tensions
and fatigues, has become a kind of living
galvanic pile, capable of condensing and
projecting powerfully that Light (astral) which
intoxicates and destroys.ö
‘Inquire Within’ comments further:
ocircIt attempts to show that it leads to
mastership and self control, but on careful
consideration it proves to be merely conscious
mediumship inspired by crafty and willful
deception, giving the adept a false confidence,
inducing him to let go his physical senses and
work upon the astral, where, enclosed by formulae
given by these masters themselves, he is
completely at their mercy.ö (pgs. 116-117)
A recent practical illustration of these methods
is the teaching contained in a book Asia
Mysteriosa by Zam Bhotiva (published by Dorbon
Aine), which suggests ways and means of
communication with the ‘Hidden Masters.’ It will
be recognized by anyone having taken an interest
in the progress of science along certain lines
that there is nothing impossible or even
improbable in the suggestion that telepathy may
be exploited by organizations for their own
particular ends.
Forty years ago, William Gay Hudson wrote on
telepathy as follows:
ocircIf the power exists in man to convey a
telepathic message to his fellow man, it
presupposes the existence of the power in the
percipient to repeat the message to a third
person, and so on indefinitely, until someone
receives it who has the power to elevate the
information above the threshold of his
consciousness, and thus convey it to the
objective intelligence of the world. Nor is the
element of time necessarily an adverse factor in
the case; for there is no reason to suppose that
such messages may not be transmitted from one to
another for generations. Thus, the particulars of
a tragedy might be revealed many years after the
event, and in such a way as to render it
difficult, if not impossible, to trace the line
through which the intelligence was transmitted.
For the spiritist, the easy and ever-ready
explanation of such a phenomenom is to ascribe it
to the intervention of spirits of the dead. But
to those who have kept pace with the developments
of modern scientific investigation, and who are
able to draw the legitimate and necessary
conclusions from the facts discovered, the
explanation is obvious, without the necessity of
entering the domain of the supernatural.ö
(Hudson, The Law of Physic Phenomena, pg. 236)
On the subject of Hypnotism and Crime, Hudson,
writing further, reaches however a fatally false
conclusion which for many years, remained
unchallenged. He states (pg. 140) ocircIt is true
that, on ordinary questions, the truth is always
uppermost in the subjective mind. A hypnotic
subject will often say, during the hypnotic
sleep, that which he would not say in his waking
moments. Nevertheless, he never betrays a vital
secret. agrav; That this is true is presumptively
proved by the fact that in all the years during
which the science of hypnotism has been
practiced, no one has ever been known to betray
the secrets of any society or order. The attempt
has often been made, but it has never succeeded.ö
Hudson attributes this reticence to
auto-suggestion opposing the suggestion of
another. This however is not the case, for, where
a member of a secret society or order is
concerned, that member was already hypnotized
during initiation and it is not his will that
guards the secret; it is the will of another, the
will of the Lodge. How many people know that
hypnotism is about all there is to initiation?
Hypnotism and fear. The rest is camouflage.
In the event of this statement being doubted, we
quote herewith from Freemasonry Universal an
article, which needs no further comment:
ocircThe Stewards prepare the candidate; the
Tyler first, and afterwards in turn the I.G.,
Deacons and Junior Wardens should inspect the
candidate to see that everything is strictly
correct.
The preparation symbolizes poverty, blindness (or
ignorance) and poverty of spirit, --- but it may
also signify a purification, i.e., that the
riches and pleasures which bind one to the
material side of life are discarded and the
spirit blinded to their attractions. The baring
of the right arm, left breast, left knee and
right heel being slipshod, are apparently a
reference to the awakening of occult centres in
one’s being which may only become active when
purification of the whole nature has begun.
The very specific character of the preparation
points to real knowledge of the occult physiology
of the process of initiation on the part of those
who originated the method which has been so
faithfully preserved. Certain Forces are sent
through the candidate’s body during the ceremony,
especially at the moment when he is created,
received and constituted an Entered Apprentice
Freemason. Certain parts of the Lodge have been
very heavily charged with magnetic force
especially in order that the Candidate may absorb
as much as possible of this force. The first
object of this curious method of preparation is
to expose to this influence those various parts
of the body which are especially used in the
ceremony. In ancient Egypt, there was another
reason for these preparations, for a weak current
of physical electricity was sent through the
candidate by means of a rod or sword with which
he was touched at certain points. It is partly on
this account that at this first initiation the
candidate is deprived of all metals since they
may very easily interfere with the flow of the
currents.ö
--- Freemasonry Universal (vol. II no. 2) Autumn
Equinox 1929, pg. 58
All kinds of nice inspiring symbolical
interpretations of the ritual are generally given
for the benefit of people who seem to want them,
but it is here evident that the candidate,
unknown to himself or herself, has acted
throughout the ceremony of initiation under the
stress of hypnotism. No longer a free agent, the
initiate takes the oath under hypnotic force
which has also been used to instill into him the
feeling of fear. Fear guards the secret of
initiation, fear born under the power of
hypnotism to serve henceforth as the controlling
agent of the initiators over the initiated.
The Right Worshipful Master must be a genuine
occultist, as it is up to him to charge
(hypnotize) the candidate, for to give him this
in the words of Freemasonry Universal:
ocircThe R .’. W .’. M .’. gives the light, the
pure white light of truth and illumination.ö
--- Freemasonry Universal (vol. V no. 3) Winter
Solstice, pg. 108
Illumination, alias Kundalini, alias serpent
power, alias electro-magnetic force, alias the
Sex Force, etc.! Even in our western world,
anyone wishing to study Hatha Yoga can learn to
neutralize the action of gravity and go some
yards up in the air. This stunt, and the
assumption of any size at will, are tricks for
which training is essential, and if one works at
it hard enough, one will eventually be able to
mesmerize people for one’s own purposes,
business, political or other, thus following the
lure of the occult to a sinister end, i.e. Black
Magic. In Hinduism, this is known as Kala Yoga.
We would here observe that the miracles performed
by Jesus Christ bore a distinctive feature, often
overlooked, namely, that in every case altruism
was the source of their inspiration. Thus, they
were a symbol of charity. This gives us the
esoteric explanation of His silence when taunted
on the cross. ocircHe saved others, himself he
cannot save.ö Sooner than use his power for
personal advantage, He chose death!
Gnostic miracles, such as that of being buried
alive for a period of time which constitutes the
Hindu religion rites of Samadhi have no ulterior
charitable purpose. They are chiefly performed
for the object of creating wonderment, curiosity
or faith in magic, and as such, failing the
altruistic motive, are classifiable under the
general term of Black Magic.
As a stimulus to popular faith, they are,
however, sanctioned by most Pagan religions,
though where such a custom prevails, the magical
performers themselves are not privileged to
withhold their gains for themselves, as these are
claimed by the Temple. Having dealt with the
preliminaries of the subject, we will now proceed
along the thorny paths of history --- not the
history of wars, battles, heroes --- but that of
the agents of their being!
Miller, Edith Starr ucircOccult Theocrasy, pgs.
24-43.
Modern Illuminism: Ancient Order of Oriental
Templars
(Ordo Templi Orientis) exoteric name
(Order of To Ov) esoteric name
Lady Queenborough (Edith Starr Miller), 1933
Modern Illuminism, as we know it, was founded by
Karl Kellner in 1895. He died in 1905, and was
succeeded by Theodor Reuss, the agent of John
Yarker. In 1902, Reuss named William Wynn
Westcott as Regent of the Illuminati in England
thus establishing the interlocking directorate
between Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia and
German Illuminism. This connection is further
explained in the article on Societas Rosicruciana
in Anglia in Chapter LXXXVII.
According to The Equinox, vol. III no. 1, 1919,
the official organ of both the A .’. A .’. and
the O.T.O. initiates are taught that this latter
order is a body of initiates in whose hands are
concentrated the wisdom and the knowledge of the
following bodies:
[Editor’s Note: In the passage immediately above,
the true esoteric meaning of the initials A .’. A
.’. are given. Even though I am under no oath of
the OTO, I do consider myself to be
self-initiated into the A .’. A .’. and as such,
I cannot share this single aspect of this
excerpt. I hope the reader understands my
position on this matter. Besides, when it comes
to research, I always did love the thrill of the
chase nearly as much as the object of the chase
itself!]
The Gnostic Catholic Church.
The Order of the Knights of the Holy Ghost.
The Order of the Illuminati.
The Order of the Temple (Knights Templar).
The Order of the Knights of St. John.
The Order of the Knights of Malta.
The Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre.
The Hidden Church of the Holy Graal.
The Hermetic Brotherhood of Light.
The Holy Order of Rose Croix of Heredom.
The Order of the Holy Royal Arch of Enoch.
The Antient and Primitive Rite of Masonry (33
degrees). The Rite of Memphis (97 degrees).
The Rite of Mizraim (90 degrees).
The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Masonry
(33 degrees).
The Swedenborgian Rite of Masonry.
The Order of the Martinists.
The Order of the Sat Bhai, and many other orders
of equal merit, if of less fame.
It does not include the A.'.A.'., with which
august body it is, however, in close alliance.
This publication also states that ocircthe
dispersion of the original secret wisdom having
led to confusion, it was determined by the Chiefs
of all these orders to recombine and centralize
their activities, even as while light, divided in
a prism, may be recomposed.ö Secret wisdom in the
case of Masonic societies of any kind is
invariably synonymous with ‘occult knowledge.’ In
the case of the O.T.O. the practice of the
‘secret wisdom’ begins with the understanding of
the very name of the order.
The book referred to above [The Equinox vol. III
no. 1] contains the following information on page
200: ocircThe letters O.T.O. represent the words
Ordo Templi Orientis (Order of the Temple of the
Orient, or Oriental Templars); but they have also
a secret meaning for initiates.ö
Were we to make a guess at the secret meaning of
the O.T.O., we would borrow the words of Godfrey
Higgins, the author of Anacalypsis and, with him,
ocircpenetrate into the Sanctum Sanctorum of the
ancient philosophers of India, Egypt, Syria, and
Greece.ö There shall we discover the secret
meaning of the Order of To Ov, Greek term for the
emanation of fluid or invisible fire. It is the
To Ov of neo-platonism of which Godfrey Higgins
writes: ocircI am convinced that the emenation of
the To Ov was believed to be this fire.ö
The To Ov was supposed to be duplicate, then from
that to triplicate. From him proceeded the male
Logos, and the female Aura or Anima or Holy Ghost
in ancient times always female. The To Ov was
supposed in himself to possess the two principles
of Generation. The reader who already knows the
meaning of this ‘fire,’ otherwise known as
Kundalini, sex-force, astral light, etc. will
easily understand the phallic hidden meaning of
the O.T.O. However, it would hardly be fair to
leave such a statement under the classification
of either suggestion or assumption. Proof might
be demanded, and proof therefore is appended.
The Equinox states that ocircit was Karl Kellner
who revived the esoteric organization of the
O.T.O. and initiated the plan now happily
complete of bringing all occult bodies again
under one goverance.ö
In the ‘Gnostic Mass’ printed in the same volume,
mention is made, in one of the orisons, of the
saints among which are named Karl Kellner and
Theodor Reuss. From notes written by Theodor
Reuss himself and from the correspondences
between him and Karl Kellner, the basic
principles of the O.T.O. have become known and
bear out the statement that this organization was
formed for the express purpose of substituting
the phallic religion for Christianity. The
conception of the O.T.O. was far from being
original but it was undoubtedly reformed by the
two Germans above named. The German organ of the
sect was The Oriflamme. It was no vain beast on
the part of the writer in The Equinox to name all
the orders as concentrated in the O.T.O. for
proof has been obtained that both Karl Kellner
and Theodor Reuss were, among a host of others,
in close Masonic relationship with John Yarker,
William Wynn Westcott, Supreme Magus of Societas
Rosicruciana in Anglia, a Warden of the Grand
Lodge of England, Papus of the Martinists, etc.
Apparently all concurred in the formation of the
esoteric doctrine of the Order of Oriental
Templars. In the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris,
is filed a document dated 1917, containing the
constitution and certain information concerning
the O.T.O. It states that ‘The Ancient Order of
Oriental Templars,’ an organization formerly
known as The Hermetic Brotherhood of Light, has
been re-organized and re-constituted.
As evidenced by the Reuss papers, one may gather
that the O.T.O. has existed since 1902. Prior to
1917, the official date of its foundation, it was
a secret organization, operating under Ancient
and Accepted Scottish Rites, acting, as these
papers indicate, as the link between this
organization and the various unofficial occult
groups. Article IV, Section 3 of the constitution
of the O.T.O. provides that ocircThe person (male
or female) filling this office (head) shall serve
for life or until his or her resignation,ö and
Article IV, Section 4, provides that ocircThe
person filling this office shall appoint his or
her successor.ö
The prominent persons connected with this
organization at its start were: John Yarker,
William Wynn Westcott, Papus, Karl Kellner,
Theodor Reuss, MacGregor Mathers, Franz Hartmann,
and Aleister Crowley. Apart from its secret
phallic doctrine, the O.T.O. seeks to unite with
a revival of Gnosticism, the study of the Jewish
Cabala, Esoteric Lamaism and Indian Yogism. It
seeks to extract from their combined doctrines,
the practical application of Eastern Sorcery and
Western Witchcraft, wherein medicine and
hypnotism occupy a place of prime importance,
serving solely materialistic ends.
The reader can always be referred to the press
for descriptions of the practices of the present
Chief of the Order, who was obliged to leave
Italy following an investigation into his magic
practices at Cefalu near Palermo in Sicily.
Calling himself ‘The Master Therion,’ Aleister
Crowley is also known under the name of Frater
Perdurabo, and, from his own extravagant
writings, we know that he looks upon himself to
be the reincarnation of Eliphas Levi, etc., etc.
To give the reader a feeble idea of the
perversion of the O.T.O., we quote the following:
ocircThe blood is the life. This simple statement
is explained by the Hindus by saying that the
blood is the principal vehicle of vital Prana.
There is some ground for the belief that there is
a definite substance, not isolated as yet, whose
presence makes all the difference between life
and dead matter.ö (Magick, published 1913, pg.
93.)
ocircIt would be unwise to condemn as irrational
the practice of those savages who tear the heart
and liver from an adversary, and devour them
while yet warm. In any case, it was the theory of
the ancient Magicians, that any living being is a
storehouse of energy varying in quantity
according to its mental and moral character. At
the death of the animal, this energy is liberated
suddenly.
ocircThe animal should therefore be killed within
the Circle, or the Triangle, as the case may be,
so that its energy cannot escape. An animal
should be selected whose nature accords with that
of the ceremony --- thus, by sacrificing a female
lamb one would not obtain any appreciate quantity
of the fierce energy useful to a Magician that
was invoking Mars. In such a case, a ram would be
more suitable. And this ram should be virgin ---
the whole potential of its original total energy
should not have been diminished in any way. For
the highest spiritual working one must
accordingly choose that victim which contains the
greatest and purest force. A male child of
perfect innocence and high intelligence is the
most satisfactory and suitable victim.
ocircFor evocations it would be more convenient
to place the blood of the victim in the Triangle,
the idea being that the spirit might obtain from
the blood this subtle but physical substance
which was the quintessence of its life in such a
manner as to enable it to take on a visible and
tangible shape. Those magicians who object to the
use of blood have endeavored to replace it with
incense. For such a purpose, the incense of
Abramelin may be burnt in large quantities.
ocircBut the bloody sacrifice, though more
dangerous, is more efficacious; and for nearly
all purposes, human sacrifice is the best. The
truly great Magician will be able to use his own
blood, or possibly that of a disciple, and that
without sacrificing the physical life
irrevocably.ö
--- The Master Therion, Magick, pg. 97, note.
To such persons as have read in L’Elue du Dragon,
page 43, the description of the first impressions
of Clotilde Bersone (Comtesse de Coutanceau)
afterwards the Inspiree (Seeress) of the Grande
Lodge des Illumines de Paris, the following note
by ‘The Master Therion’ will be of interest:
ocircIt is here desirable to warn the reader
against the numerous false orders which have
impudently assumed the name of Rosicrucian. The
Masonic Societas Rosicruciana is honest and
harmless; and makes no false pretences; if its
members happen as a rule to be pompous
busybodies, enlarging the borders of their
phylacteries, and scrupulous about cleaning the
outside of the cup and the platter; if the masks
of the Officers in their Mysteries suggest the
Owl, the Cat, the Parrot, and the Cuckoo, while
the robe of their Chief Magus is a Lion’s skin,
that is their affair.ö [The Master Therion,
Magick, pg. 97, note.]
Animal masks referred to above as being used in
the mysteries of the Rosicrucian Order are indeed
also described by Clotilde Bersone in L’Elue du
Dragon. They were a distinctive feature of the
Masonic gathering in the Grand Lodge of the
Illumines d’Orient at Constantinople at which she
claims to have been present. It is even suggested
by Miss Murray in The Witchcult in Western Europe
that most of the legends of transformations of
witches into cats, horses, and other animals
arose from the references by other witches to
craft adepts by the costumes and masks these had
worn during the witchcraft ceremonies. Thus
again, the witchcraft of the Middle Ages is
reflected in the occultism of today.
The philosophical teachings of the O.T.O. seem to
be adequately summarized by its leader in the
following sentence: ocircThis is in fact the
formula of our Magick; we insist that all acts
must be equal; that existence exerts a right to
exist; that unless evil is a mere term expressing
some relation of haphazard hostility between
forces equally self-justified, the universe is as
inexplicable and impossible as uncompensated
action; that the orgies of Bacchus and Pan are no
less sacramental than the Masses of Jesus; that
the scars of syphilis are sacred and worthy of
honour as such.ö
Eliphas Levi, quoting from the Oupnek’hat, the
standard Indian book on Magic (Histoire de la
Magie, pg. 76), outlines the same moral code:
ocircIt is permissible to lie in order to
facilitate marriage and in order to exalt the
virtues of a Brahmin or the qualities of a cow.
ocircGod is truth and in him light and darkness
are one. He who knows that never lies, for, if he
wishes to lie, his lie becomes the truth.
ocircWhatever sin he commits, whatever evil work
he does, he is never guilty. Even should he be
twice parricide, even though he should have
killed a brahmin initiated into the mysteries of
the Vedas, whatever he may do, his light is never
less, for, says God, ‘I am the universal soul, in
me are good and evil to correct one another.’ He
who knows that is never a sinner; he is
universal, as I am myself.ö
--- Oupnek’hat, instruction 108, pgs. 85 and 92
of the first volume of the translation by
Anquetil.
Is this not the ever recurring dogma of Manichean
Dualism?
Every effort is made to attract wealthy people,
mostly women, to the ‘Profess Houses’ of the
Order of O.T.O. In these centres, where the
‘Nudity cult’ and other eccentricities are
cultivated, the victims become quickly amenable
to the insinuating suggestions of such as covet
their worldly goods. To enhance its
attractiveness to the public, the system is
represented as embodying the secret knowledge
which leads to material success. Playing on the
egotistical instincts of humanity, the O.T.O.
attracts within its orbit all those who, with
inordinate ambition and limited capacity, hope in
some nebulous way, through the Glorification of
self, to save humanity.
There seems no doubt that the head of the O.T.O.
is justified in saying that this order reigns
above all others as, everything, from political
espionage to blackmail may emanate from it. Like
numerous organizations such as Mazdaznans and
Rudolph Steiner’s Anthroposophism, it lays great
stress upon the physical culture and rhythmic
movements. Pretences of producing renewed youth
and vigour attracts many adepts. Moreover, it
promises its initiates the attainment of their
ambition and desires. The ‘Do what thou wilt’
applies to this in an ambigious manner. The
initiates of ‘Fountainbleu,’ under the hypnotic
power of a certain Oriental, said by some to be
an Armenian and by others a Jew, have offered the
spectacle of automata performing movements,
dances, etc., under the will of their master. It
was even said that under the will of the new
Svengali, voiceless people sang beautifully and
in artistic personalities worked as well as
renowned artists and sculptors.
Advertising the accomplishment of such feats
attracted many people to Fountainbleu. What
actually took place there has several times been
revealed before the French law courts and in
articles written by erstwhile inmates of this
institution. As to the American house of the same
type, the scandalous happenings taking place
within its precincts have sometimes been reported
in the press. Yet to the amazement of a great
many, such places as the ‘Abode of Love,’ in
England, the ‘House of Rest’ at Nyack in America,
and Gourgief’s establishment in Fountainbleu
remain undisturbed.
On entering the O.T.O., aspirants must acquiesce
in the complete subordination of their ‘will’ to
that of ‘Unknown Superiors.’ This provision
places them entirely in the power of the ‘Order’
and its secret chiefs. Under occult dominion,
Art, Music, and Politics all tend to the same
end: confusion, a calculated and induced
confusion: for minds that are confused will obey
and bow to the hidden masters!
The rule of the Triangle and the Ellipse,
together with a crude Geometry in modern art, is
the rule of Masonry in aesthetics. Standing
before a meaningless Cubist canvas at an art
exhibition one day, a puzzled amateur asked
ocircBut what does it mean?ö To which the painter
replied, ocircIt’s not a question of what it
means, it’s a question of what is its effect on
the observer.ö
Consciously or unconsciously, the artist spoke
the truth. Psychiatrists tell us that this school
of insidious humbug is simply an elaboration of
the policy of the interruption of ideas leading
to total incoherence and madness. ‘Cubist’ art is
an effort to produce certain psychic effects
obtainable by optical illusion. Beauty has
nothing at all to do with it. The cubist school
is not in the realm of art at all. It belongs to
that of medicine and psychic science. Those who
forget that this devastating fad of ‘The
Interrupted Idea’ can be extended to music,
literature, and every other phase of human
effort, do so at their peril.
A mind that is positive cannot be controlled. For
the purposes of occult dominion, minds must
therefore be rendered passive and negative in
order that control may be achieved. Minds
consciously working to a definite end are a
power, and power can oppose power for good or for
evil. The scheme for world dominion might be
doomed by the recognition of this principle
alone, but, as it is unfortunately unrecognized,
it remains unchallenged.
Destruction, Materialism, Imposition. These are
the three points of Albert Pike, and they seem to
be ruling the world today.
Miller, Edith Starr ucircOccult Theocrasy, pgs.
571-581.
Conclusion:
Lady Queenborough (Edith Starr Miller), 1933
The foregoing pages have had for object to show
how, whether open or secret, a great many secret
societies, Masonic and non-Masonic, of good or
evil intent, seem to function towards the same
goal under centralized leadership.
This book claims to be an endeavor to prove that:
* Owing to their union, all secret societies,
whether political, philanthropic or occult in
appearance, serve a political purpose unknown to
the majority of their members.
* The power wielded by such societies is real and
its character is international.
* Regardless of their exoteric objects, the
esoteric aims of most societies are all directed
towards the same end --- namely the concentration
of political, economic, and intellectual power
into the hands of a small group of individuals,
each of whom controls a branch of the
International life, material and spiritual, of
the world today.
The main branches thus controlled are: * The
International Banking Groups and their
subsidiaries.
* International, industrial, and commercial
control groups with their interlocking
directorates.
* Education, Art, Literature, Science, and
Religion as vehicles of intellectual and moral
perversion.
* The Groups already organized throughout
different countries for the study of
International affairs political, financial, and
economic.
* The International Press, the medium used to
mould public opinion.
* The Political party organizations of each
nation, whether conservative, liberal, radical,
socialist, etc. existing in every country with
parliamentary administration.
* Internationally organized corruption, the
white-slave traffic, vice and drug-rings, etc.
Any one of the branches above enumerated has
innumerable ramifications and the control of even
the least of them cannot be obtained without
money. Money therefore becomes one of the most
powerful levers in the hands of men who form the
controlling groups. Thus does research in the
realm of Finance become indispensable to the
students bent upon tracing the real power behind
universal control. This power, they will find, is
wholly in the hands of the international Jewish
financiers.
Glancing at the body frame of all political
organizations, do we not perceive that MONEY is
its main sinew? It would not sound preposterous
to state that the electoral system is similar to
that of auction, insomuch as it favours the
highest bidder. In election campaigns, the
successful candidate is not necessarily the most
deserving or worthy of votes, but too frequently
he who was able to buy the greater number of
votes. Votes are captured by slogans, propaganda,
and not unfrequently, bribery. Only an
infinitesimal percentage among them will ever
strive to find out the power or powers behind the
candidate, and by whom he is, in effect,
controlled.
Yet the importance of such an investigation is
both obvious and necessary, for it is a proven
fact that candidates to parliament in one country
have sometimes been controlled by a man, or a
group of men, in another country inimical to
their own. If political control is international
it must of necessity be subversive of Patriotism.
If it holds in its power the reckless forces of
Socialism and Communism, it must be subversive of
social order and the promoter of revolution. If
spiritual control is anti-Christian, Gnostic and
occult, it must be subversive of Christianity and
Religion. If it directs vice rings of all kinds,
it must aim at the destruction of the moral,
intellectual and physical strength of the human
race.
If, in conclusion, Finance is power and as such
is concentrated in one point, it is the arbiter
of War and Peace, Life and Death, Welfare and
Wretchedness, Prosperity and Ruin. Everything
and, it is sad to say, almost everybody, has a
price and can be bought though not always with
money. Men who today wield financial power have
long since based their system of purchase on this
axiom. Far be it from us to suggest that there
are no idealists in every walk of life for whom
the pursuit of either patriotism, religious
mysticism, or philanthropy is unadulterated. On
the contrary, we shall go as far as to say that
such people become the best tools in the hands of
the plotters by whom they are led to believe that
disinterested material help will be given them
for the attainment of their ideals or aims. The
study of secret revolutionary societies will show
many examples of remarkable cases of self
sacrifice on the part of the genuine idealists.
Subversives of either religious, social, and
political order have ever known how to make use
of such people by instilling into them the super
religion of the secret. It is against this
‘secret’ that the fight should be waged. If the
aims of secret societies are good, one fails to
see the need for their secret oaths and
initiations. The ‘light’ they promise, should,
like the sun, shine upon everyone.
To use the words of Christ: ocircWho lighteth a
candle and putteth it under a bushel?ö
Masonic and secret societies need light.
Hence, Light should be thrown upon them from
without that their secrets may be revealed.
As to ‘Toleration’ --- indiscriminate toleration
preached at random, it should be considered one
of the exoteric bases upon which are erected
subversive creeds. Recognizing as they do the
practical power of thought, sects induce their
novices to surrender their use of this power
whose normal function, guided by the individual
conscience, is to discriminate between good and
evil in order to oppose the latter. Thus, they
create a dangerous negative state of mind as
opposed to the Christian or positive [state of
mind]. The individual when robbed of his
initiative can easily be swayed and guided by the
will of others. Therein resides the power of
hypnotism and in this wise the shibboleth of
‘toleration’ which, in fact, paralyzes opposition
to evil, serves an esoteric purpose suspected by
few.
If the contents of this book may help in
safeguarding the young and the unwary against
falling into the pitfalls set by agents of
subversive sects, its author will not have
labored in vain. The work is far from being
completed. It claims, in fact, to be only an
attempt in the direction of inexhaustible
research work upon the coordination of the aims
of all societies whether political or occult. It
is to be hoped that others, and may they be many,
will begin to work where this book ends, for:
ocircThe harvest is great indeed, but the
laborers are few.ö Miller, Edith Starr
ucircOccult Theocrasy, pgs. 661-666.
Appendix III: Masonic and Pagan Symbolism
Lady Queenborough (Edith Starr Miller), 1933
Translated extract from a document addressed to
all the Supreme Councils of Scottish Rites of the
world by Albert Pike. Delivered in Paris, October
1885. Quoted by Domenico Margiotta in Le Culte de
la Nature dans la Franc-maconnerie Universelle
(pg. 51)
D .’. M .’. J .’.
The order demands the immediate enforcement of
the D .’. M .’. J .’. nevertheless (Deus Meumque
Jus).
At different epochs of the life of the nations
which have the good fortune of possessing an
active Supreme Council, and from 1820 onwards,
certain similar communications have been made to
certain chosen members of the Grand Consistories
and Supreme Councils respectively. It is
necessary to give the secret of this order.
Exoterically D .’. M .’. J .’. are the initials
of the motto of the 33rd degree. Deus Meumque Jus
= Dieu et mon Droit.
Esoterically D .’. M .’. J .’. are the initials
of the words, Destruction, Materialism,
Imposition, which ocircImpose Destruction upon
everything which resists Materialism.ö
The three points .’. mean that the Masonic work
of Destruction, Materialism, and Imposition is
triple:
Destruction of Supernaturalism, of Authority, and
of Anti-Masonic activity.
Materialism of Conscience, of Education, and of
the State.
Imposition on the Family, on the Nation, and on
Humanity.
Consequently, the order to enforce practically
the D .’. M .’. J .’. nevertheless means.
By every means, whatever they may be, one must
Impose first on the Family, and then on the
Nation in order to achieve the aim of imposing on
Humanity. * Destruction of Supernaturalism, there
where the Conscience has not been reached by
Masonic Materialism.
* The Destruction of Authority, there where
Education has not been reached by Masonic
Materialism.
* The Destruction of Anti-Masonry, there where
the State has not been reached by Masonic
Materialism.
Miller, Edith Starr ucircOccult Theocrasy, pgs.
709-710.
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