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BAPHOMET XIø
Liber CI
{Book 101}
O. T. O.
Ordo Templi Orientis
An Open Letter to
Those Who May Wish
to Join the Order
Enumerating the Duties
and Privileges
These Regulations Come into Force in Any District Where the Membership
of the Order Exceeds One Thousand Souls
These regulations first appeared in The Equinox III(1) (Detroit:
Universal, 1919) and constitute our best and most comprehensive
guidelines for Thelemic social intercourse. Certain provisions will
need to be modified to take advantage of the U.S.A.'s comparatively
enlightened tax-exemption statutes as applied to religious
organizations--a few are of dubious legality at this writing. Most of
the principles outlined herein have long been observed in the U.S.
O.T.O.--H.B.
Issued by Order: BAPHOMET XIø O.T.O., HIBERNIAE IONAE ET OMNIUM
BRITANNIARUM, REX SUMMUS SANCTISSIMUS
AN EPISTLE OF BAPHOMET to Sir GEORGE MACNIE COWIE, Very Illustrious
and Very Illuminated, Pontiff and Epopt of the Areopagus of the VIII
Degree O.T.O. Grand Treasurer General, Keeper of the Golden Book,
President of the Committee of Publications of the O.T.O.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
IT HAS BEEN REPRESENTED TO Us that some persons who are worthy to join
the O.T.O. consider the fees and subscriptions rather high. This is
due to your failure to explain properly the great advantages offered
by the Order. We desire you therefore presently to note, and to cause
to be circulated throughout the Order, and among those of the profane
who may seem worthy to join it, these matters following concerning the
duties and the privileges of members of the earlier degrees of the
O.T.O. as regards material affairs. And for convenience we shall
classify these as pertaining to the Twelve Houses of the Heaven, but
also by numbered clauses for the sake of such as understand not the
so-called Science of the Stars. First, therefore, concerning the
duties of the Brethren. Yet with our Order every duty is also a
privilege, so that it is impossible wholly to separate them.
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