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I.N.R.I by Th. Reuss, first Outer Head of O.T.O.
By Th. Reuss and not the Crowley work of the same title. Late
conception of how to run O.T.O. Good thing Reuss died before trying
it! Rather Fascist in some parts. Entered by H. B.
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{Note in Yorke's hand: OTO Black Binder / a literal translation from the
printed pamphlet in German. Author probably Reuss.}
I. N. R. I.
The Programme of Construction and the Guiding Principles of the Gnostic
Neo-Christians O.T.O. 1920 Published by the "Oriflamme".
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Guiding Principles of a new Civilization and Religion.
Mankind, tortured by the World War, needs a new faith, a new
Christianity, and a new civilization built upon it.
That the much praised European civilization and the Christian Church
were unable to prevent the cruelties of this World War or the greed
and hatred of the peace that was meant to end thid world war, this
alone is sufficient proof, that Christianity as it reigns to-day, and
modern civilization it created, are no longer capable of living, and
must be replaced by a new Christianity and a new civilization.
But mankind also demands a new faith. Because the old belief in God,
which flowed from the Christian teachings as brewed by the Church
Fathers, has for the great majority of the members of the Christian
Church, long become a fairy-tale, because it was unable to withstand
the biting criticism of modern science. And the belief in mankind
(belief in brotherliness) was exceptionally thoroughly destroyed by
the peace of Versailles, much more than by the events of was
themselves. For the makers of the peace of Versilles had decoyed the
peoples of America and Europe into the field by the slogan: `For
Freedom and Humanity; For Justice and Equality' to fight a crusade
against the Imperialism of German barbarity. And in the end the
gentlemen Clemenceau and Lloyd George exploited the naivete of the
German Michel, who, confiding in the glamour-casting and treacherous
promises of the leaders of the Entente that not the German people,
but only the imperialism of the Hohenz ollern was to be exterminated,
finally abandon fighting and resistance, in order to erect the
Anglo-French world-imperialism on the deceived and enslaved German
People.
For their own undoing however, Clemenceau and Lloyd George also
destroyed all faith in humanity and brotherliness in their allies,
through the Versailles machinations, so that millions of people,
victors and vanquished alike, have lost all faith in God and man.
The Community of the Gnostic Templars or Neo-Christians, abbreviated
as O.T.O., which already before the was had numerous adherents in
America, Holland, Bohemia, France, Russia, Italy, etc., now steps out
from the reserve it cultivated until now, in order to bring to
tortured mankind the new Glad Tidings of the Gnostic Christians, and
the new civilization springing therefore.
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The message of the O.T.O. is: Freedom, Justice, Love.
The Freedom of the O.T.O. is freedom from Original Sin, and the
freedom to execute the Will of the God-head. It does say in Liber
Legis: "Do what thou wilt". But it is also said: But remember that
you will have to render account for all tht deeds! That is the law of
Karma.
So that not willfulness and unbridled behaviour, but strict
discipline is "true freedom".
Highest self-culture, iron self-discipline, that is O.T.O. freedom.
All freedom not controlled by strict self-discipline is
licentiousness, willfulness, lawlessness, leading to Chaos.
"Do what thou wilt" is also in no wise identical with "Do what you
like", but "Do what is thy Will, but examine, whether what thou wilt
be God's will also". Only when your will is in agreement with the
"Will of God", can you put it into practice. But then with intense
concentration.
Justice is the second principle and refers to the purpose of man's
life on earth, and the destiny of mortal man. The purpose of man's
existence of earth is: faithful devotion to duty. Everybody must,
whether well born or lowly, educated or uneducated, whether day
labourer, peasant, artisan, professor, judge, merchant, artist or
king etc., - simply everybody must do his duty to his utmost ability
wherever fate has put him. That is his purpose, the fulfillment of
God's law, of Justice. All is Law in the Un iverse. Life on earth is
also subject unto it. Whoever lets this thought ripen in himself to
its utmost possibility, will find the solution of many questions that
worry him. The phrase is hard, but truth is always hard and encloses
the duty to work of every individual.
Beautiful, of enthusiastic beauty, is only Love, and "Love is the
highest law, love under control of the Will!" - Love is the reward of
overcoming self, the basis of all brotherhood, the source of strength
for devotion to duty; She makes us accept hard truth, leads us to
conscious union with God, and enables us to approach God during this
life on earth, and really to experience "at-one-ment with God."
The Master Therion says: The act of love consummated with overflowing
energy, under control of the Will, is the "Act of God", a
"sacramental act", is "In-God-with-God-at-onement". A man to whom it
was granted to unite with God, under control of Will, in the godly,
sacramental love-act, is a channel for the deity. Yet, says Liber
Legis: "Although much is said in the law of highest Love, of
enthusiastic, yielding, selfless, flaming, fiery, overflowing, love,
there is no word about sentimental love". This a lso one has to ripen
within oneself. Because the results are seen in a 1000 channels of
earthly, daily life; they contribute to beautify it; they build a
bridge to "Art". Love alone makes life bearable, Life, - otherwise so
cold and often cruel.
The above mentioned principles and inferences to be drawn therefrom
have been concentrated by the O.T.O. into the following fundamental
canon of belief: "God and the world (Visible as well as Invisible)
are an all-embracing, limitless realm, the Universe, consisting of
the conscious primal energy (or creative potency), the positive
force, and the unconscious primal substance (world egg or matrix),
the negative force, which create throught union (primal creation)
new worlds with them, and attract or create creatures of similar
principles. The likeness to God of created beings is shown by the
fact that the primal creative potency inha bits them as well. Th
otency is the innate proof to the creature, of descent from God the
original creator.
In this sense are to be understood the words of the Bible: and God
created man in His image, in God's image he created him.
In order to find the truly complete solution of the world-riddle,
one has to disregard the fundamentally erroneous but common
distinction between Spirit, Soul, and Matter. The Soul is only to be
regarded as a "spiritual" thing (spiritual agent) which has existe