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The most in-depth work in English on the most influential secret magic group of 20th-century Germany, the Fraternitas Saturni.
List of contents
Abbreviations
Foreword by Frater U∴D∴
Preface to the Fourth Edition
Introduction
Seeking the Light in Darkness
Chapter 1
A History of the Fraternitas Saturni
Distant Roots
Rebirth
The FOGC .: 99 :.
The Ordo Templi Orientis and Aleister Crowley
Interregnum
Renewal
Discords and Harmonies
Chapter 2
Doctrines of the Fraternitas Saturni
Lux e Tenebris Lucet et Luceat
Saturn Gnosis
The Saturnian Archetype
Aim of the Fraternitas Saturni--The Lodge Concept
The Way of Saturn
Astral Gnosis
Astrosophy
Aeonic Cosmosophy: The Dark Side of the Aquarian Age
The Luciferian Principle
The Yoga of the Dark Light: Fraternitas Saturni Sexual Mysticism Nietzschean Thelemism
Chapter 3
Organizaion of the Fraternitas Saturni
The Initiatory Path
The Thirty-Three Degrees and Their Work
Chapter 4
Magical Work
Magical Training
Lodge Rituals
The Saturnian Liturgy
The Saturnian Sacraments
Lodge Rites
A Note on “Electrical Magic”
Secret Sex-Magical Practices of the Fraternitas Saturni
Experimental and Magical use of the Pendulum
Astrology and Sex Magic
APPENDICES
Appendix A Ritual Missae Fraternitas Saturni
Appendix B Ritual Missae for the Grand and Festival Lodge
Appendix C Ritual Missae for the Master Lodge of the Fraternitas Saturni
Appendix D Gradus Pentalphae Appendix E Statement of Relations between Myself, Aleister Crowley, and Heinrich Tränker (1925)
Appendix F The Constitution of the Fraternitas Saturni
Appendix G Letter from Gregor A. Gregorius to Aleister Crowley (1926)
Appendix H Letter from Gregor A. Gregorius to Aleister Crowley (1927)
Appendix I An Initiation Ritual of the FOGC .: 99 :.
Appendix J The Rosicrucians and the Bavarian Illuminati
Appendix K An Outline of Adonism
Appendix L Instructions Appended to Liber I
by Master Pacitius
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Stephen E. Flowers, Ph.D., received his doctorate in Germanic languages and medieval studies from the University of Texas at Austin and studied the history of occultism at the University of Göttingen, Germany. The author of more than 24 books, including
Lords of the Left-Hand Path and
Original Magic, he lives near Smithville, Texas.
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The most in-depth work in English on the most influential secret magic group of 20th-century Germany, the Fraternitas Saturni.
Additional text
"This is recommended reading for all interested in secret fraternities."
