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Figure 4.1 Arrangement of the Lodge the FS below but for the most part, we will focus on the various sacraments and lodge rites of the FS and the furnishing of the lodge itself. The lodge room or temple of an FS lodge is set up according to the general structural principles found in the work of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, as shown in Figure 4.1. A vivid picture of the appearance and atmosphere of a Saturnian lodge is provided by Gregorius himself in his occult novel...
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celebratory tone of voice. After each name the First Warden strikes the gong. According to tradition the names of the dead Grand Masters are sounded first. The First Warden strikes the gong and calls out Ex The brothers and sisters step individually before the G.M., bow three times and take up their places. Arms are crossed over the breast. After all brothers have come into the room and the sounds of the Ave are over, the First Warden declares in a loud voice Honorable Grand Master, the Lodge...
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space in an informal order and go to their rightful and alloted places. F.W. Very well Seat yourselves, my brothers and sisters Now the entry music begins perhaps In these Holy Halls from Mozart's Magic Flute or another kind of music corresponding to the character of the evening's work. After a short pause the F.W. gives three knocks of the hammer as he proceeds My brothers and sisters Cross your arms over your chests and close your eyes Slip away from the anxiety and cares of the workaday...
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These astrophysical phenomena are seen as the outward manifestations of the War in Heaven. The Luciferian Principle is understood as an expelled spark of the divine which has struggled through the darkness of matter, where this principle manifests itself as crystalline structure and as light. It struggled its way further through the kingdoms of plants and animals, and eventually emerged in humankind where the spark was liberated. Although generally ignorant of its true home and origin, this...
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in Berlin during some rather frantic affairs. Most of Crowley's influence on Gregorius seems to have come through his published writings, many of which were translated into German by initiates of the FS. Gregorius was later to publish translations of magical works taken from Magick in Theory and Practice 1929 . The actual accomplishment of Gregorius and the FS was a more or less cohesive synthesis of Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Freemasonry, Luciferianism, astrological mythology,...
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The official motto of the FS is Tue was Du willst ist das ganze Gesetz, es gibt kein Gesetz ber tue was Du willst. Liebe ist das Gesetz Liebe unter Willen Mitleidlose Liebe. Do what Thou wilt is the whole of the Law, there is no Law beyond do what Thou wilt. Love is the Law Love under Will Compassionless Love. The first part of the motto is the familiar Crowleyan Thelemite formula, which is left unaltered. The second part, which is the response to the first, has been slightly altered in...
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ize the exalted state of solitary freedom. As the name of the order indicates, the Frater-nitas Saturni places a heavy emphasis on astrological doctrines or astrosophy. The teachings which involve Saturn are derived from a basically Gnostic cosmology, in which the planet Saturn is identified with the Demiurge and with the Guardian of the Threshold H ter der Schwelle , who comes between the initiate rising through the planetary spheres and their access to the firmament and the light. As...
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ends. This was part of a general field of interest among initiates of the FS, a field which included the study of, and experimentation with, the magical effects of high-frequency sound, electromagnetic fields, so-called Tesla energy, ozonization of the atmosphere, ultraviolet light, etc. In the FS these theories were usually spoken of in connection with teachings concerning aethric waves, or the chakra system. This brought the discussion into a more traditional magical framework. Very little is...
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the publication of reports or isolated documents that perhaps give some idea of the kind of sexual magic practiced in the FS. But these reports are nevertheless largely taken out of context and therefore can not give anything but a distorted picture of actual FS theories and practices. In Chapter 4 we will provide some practices of Saturnian sex-magic, as well as the full rite of the Pentalphic Grade, which has until now only been alluded to in print. The background of sexual magic in the FS is...
Acknowledgments
I would like to thank all of my advisors and mentors, academic and magical, who provided a variety of perspectives for me throughout the years. Especially I would like to thank Robert Zoller for his valuable insights on astrological lore. Also, I would like to express a special sense of gratitude toward and to Walter Jantschik, former G.M., for providing me with some inside perspectives on the FS. Chapter 1 A History of the Fraternitas Saturni 1 Chapter 2 Doctrines of the Fraternitas Saturni 27...
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was the ariosophy of von List, von Liebenfels and others, and the Anthroposophy of Rudolf Steiner. The original pansophy of Heinrich Tr nker was an attempt to synthesize all forms of occult teachings then in practice. This, however, proved a difficult task, as there seemed to be no unifying element or central focus for the maelstorm of occult lore swirling around in the pansophical movement. It was the Fraternitas Saturni and Gregor A. Gregorius, directly or indirectly through the acceptance of...
Introduction
The Fraternitas Saturni FS , the Brotherhood of Saturn, has become known to English readers through fragmentary descriptions which emphasize the sensational, sex-magical aspects of this lodge's work or else its darker, more Satanic, side.1 This is understandable in light of the fact that the FS is or was the most unabashedly Luciferian organization in the modern Western occult revival, and its practice of sexual occultism perhaps the most elaborately detailed of any such lodge. The FS...
A History of the Brotherhood of Saturn
As with all organizations of an occult nature, accurate and consistent historical data for the FS is hard to obtain. On some aspects there is an abundance of information, while on others we are left to speculate. In this chapter, I want to trace the history of the FS as an organization and as an idea, and at the same time remain as much as possible within the context of events in the contemporary occult subculture. Documents within the FS1 point to the idea that on some mystical level there is...