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BAPHOMET XI°
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 XI° 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.
OF THE DUTIES OF THE BRETHREN
FIRST HOUSE
1. There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt. Yet it is well for
Brethren to study daily in the Volume of the Sacred Law, Liber Legis,
for therein is much counsel concerning this, how best they may carry
out this will.
SECOND HOUSE
2. The private purse of every Brother should always be at the disposal
of any Brother who may be in need. But in such a case it is a great
mischief if the one ask, and the other consent; for if the former be
really in need, his pride is wounded by his asking; and if not, the
door is opened to beggars and imposters, and all manner of arrant
knaves and rogues such as are no true Brethren. But the Brother who is
possessed of this world's goods should make it his business to watch
the necessity of all those Brethren with whom he may be personally
acquainted, anticipating their wants in so wise and kindly and
delicate a manner that it shall appear as if it were the payment of a
debt. And what help is given shall be given with discretion, so that
the relief may be permanent rather than temporary.
3. All Brethren shall be exceedingly punctual in the payment of Lodge
Dues. This is to take precedence of all other calls upon the purse.
THIRD HOUSE
4. The Brethren shall be diligent in preaching the Law of Thelema. In
all writings they shall be careful to use the prescribed greetings;
likewise in speech, even with strangers.
5. They shall respond heartily to every summons of the Lodge or
Chapter to which they may belong, not lightly making excuse.
6. Brethren should use every opportunity of assisting each other in
their tastes, businesses, or professions, whether by direct dealing
with Brethren in preference to others, or by speaking well of them, or
as may suggest itself. It seems desirable, when possible, that where
two or more Brethren of the same Lodge are engaged in the same work,
they should seek to amalgamate the same by entering into partnership.
Thus in time great and powerful corporations may arise from small
individual enterprises.
7. They shall be diligent in circulating all tracts, manifestos, and
all other communications which the Order may from time to time give
out for the instruction or emancipation of the profane.
8. They may offer suitable books and pictures to the Libraries of the
Profess-Houses of the Order.
FOURTH HOUSE
9. Every Brother who may possess mines, land, or houses more than he
can himself constantly occupy, should donate part of such mines or
land, or one or more of such houses to the Order.
10. Property thus given will be administered if he desire it in his
own interest, thus effecting a saving, since large estates are more
economically handled than small. But the Order will use such property
as may happen to lie idle for the moment in such ways as it may seem
good, lending an unlet house (for example) to some Brother who is in
need, or allowing an unused hall to be occupied by a Lodge.
11. (Yet in view of the great objects of the Order, endowment is
welcome.)
12. Every Brother shall show himself solicitous of the comfort and
happiness of any Brother who may be old, attending not only to all
material wants, but to his amusement, so that his declining years may
be made joyful.
FIFTH HOUSE
13. Every Brother shall seek constantly to give pleasure to all
Brethren with whom he is acquainted, whether by entertainment or
conversation, or in any other manner that may suggest itself. It will
frequently and naturally arise that love itself springs up between
members of the Order, for that they have so many and sacred interests
in common. Such love is peculiarly holy, and is to be encouraged.
14. All children of Brethren are to be considered as children of the
whole Order, and to be protected and aided in every way by its members
severally, as by its organization collectively. No distinction is to
be made with regard to the conditions surrounding the birth of any
child.
15. There is an especially sacred duty, which every Brother should
fulfil, with regard to all children, those born without the Order
included. This duty is to instruct them in the Law of Thelema, to
teach them independence and freedom of thought and character, and to
warn them that servility and cowardice are the most deadly diseases of
the human soul.
SIXTH HOUSE
16. Personal or domestic attendants should be chosen from among the
members of the Order when possible, and great tact and courtesy are to
be employed in dealing with them.
17. They, on their part, will render willing and intelligent service.
18. While in Lodge, and on special occasions, they are to be treated
as Brothers, with perfect equality; such behaviour is undesirable
during the hours of service, and familiarity, subversive as it is of
all discipline and order, is to be avoided by adopting a complete and
marked change of manner and address.
19. This applies to all persons in subordinate positions, but not to
the Brethren Servient in the Profess-Houses of the Order, who, giving
service without recompense, are to be honoured as hosts.
20. In case of the sickness of any Brother, it is the duty of all
Brethren who know him personally to attend him, to see that he want
for nothing, and to report if necessary his needs to the Lodge, or to
Grand Lodge itself.
21. Those Brethren who happen to be doctors or nurses will naturally
give their skill and care with even more than their customary joy in
service.
22. All Brethren are bound by their fealty to offer their service in
their particular trade, business, or profession, to the Grand Lodge.
For example, a stationer will supply Grand Lodge with paper, vellum,
and the like; a bookseller offer any books to the Library of Grand
Lodge which the Librarian may desire to possess; a lawyer will execute
any legal business for Grand Lodge, and a railway or steamship owner
or director see to it that the Great Officers travel in comfort
where