Declaration of Frater Zeus

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law

In the spirit of this Watchword, we Children of the New Aeon acknowledge that Freedom is under attack throughout the world.

Your individuality is being challenged by governments that prefer you to remain humble, quiet, and undistinguished. Such persons are more easily governed. This same mediocrity also serves corporations which would control markets of goods at the expense of their customer's welfare. For a nation to enslave a people, or a large corporation to monopolize a market, they require the same thing: permanent uniformity.

What we are taught and what we read about world affairs is almost completely in the hands of our governments or media corporations. Safeguard the source of your knowledge. It is written: The great bond of all bonds is ignorance. (Liber CL, 1.) Neither nations nor corporations want you to evolve. They will enslave you if you let them.

As an alternate way of life to the emerging monoculture, The Society Ordo Templi Orientis exists as a system of Lodges, each with its own distinctive character, rites, culture, arts and sciences. Each Lodge is its own unique tribe of men and woman, a singular culture fostering a people uniquely themselves. The flower of human genius, crushed by the foot of uniformity, is permitted to blossom, and their success permitted to pass on its fruits to successive generations. These Lodges are linked together in such a way that they establish their own network of informational exchange independent from the media conglomerates, so that art, science, and culture can flow freely among liberated men and woman, uncensored by the tyrants of the status quo.

Some Lodges will be bowers of Love, laboring to dissolve sexual restrictions and taboos, refining dances of delight, that their life may be one ray of joyous union.

Some Lodges will be conservatories of Art, where artists collaborate to produce sweeping masterworks together, reaping the fruits of their freedom for a feast of visions and songs to enrapture the world in Beauty.

Some Lodges will be libraries of Memory, where ancient arts and sciences, forbidden or fading archives will be protected and studied by their scholars and philosophers.

Some Lodges will be groves of Mystery, where their initiates labor to unlock the seals of darkness that encircle the boundaries of human understanding.

Some Lodges will be garrisons of War, where the martial arts are refined, and men and weapons honed against the days when freedom is threatened.

Some Lodges will be pavilions of Pleasure, where song and wine, dance and delight are celebrated continually, and toil is made to be more worthwhile by the refinement of raptures.

Some Lodges will be but brief reunions upon roads of Travel, where fellow scattered pilgrims reunite to recall their explorations of the frontiers of the world before continuing on their journeys. What difference does distance make, anymore?

There have been Lodges such as these, already, and will be more, like nothing We have ever seen. This motto, though, is understood by them all:

Every man and every woman is a star.

That is to say, each man and each woman is, in Essence, a creature of spiritual fire, and once free, is radiant, sublime, and perfect within the Universe. That this radiance may shine forth, the Society Ordo Templi Orientis calls upon all of those who acknowledge their unique place in the zodiac vault of the heavens, to break free, to distinguish themselves from the confines of uniformity, and to exceed the nations of earth in splendour & pride.

Love is the law, love under will

Comment by David Bersson

Due to persecution and harassment we have elected to keep the majority of our membership & location of Lodges secret from the profane world. Let readers who have seen our announcements for the first time be assured that those who study magick, the kabbalah and desire a greater freedom are NOT devil worshippers nor satanists. These rumors are ignorant declarations from people who apparently cannot read clearly the truth we place before them. Nor are we Nazis, Communists, Socialists, a Democracy or any other political movement that would murder innocent people with the asinine excuse of political ambition. We keep telling you what we are and many still do not see Us. We are a magical organization that manifests the force of Hierarchy both on the Inner and Worldly planes of existence. Note that We are not a Democracy, we are a Hierarchy. Our purpose remains legion. Yet the main point is to give training and social fraternity to those whose inner nature is mystical. We are attempting to teach more pragmatic values to the mystical type nature and give he or her a basis of social interaction. At the same time, we give the magical training that assures the candidate will be in close touch with reality. In order to achieve such a sublime goal, the Law of Θελημα is here to assure real spiritual understanding on all planes. We have only recently observed an ex-disciple has come on pretending to know more than he knows and announcing that we are a "fraternal organization". This incomplete description tells you nothing. The Masons are a fraternal organization! A Moose Lodge is a fraternal organization! This ex-disciple, a silly little man of inferior intelligence has now joined the Freemasons and tells us he's perfectly content with his "business connections". He has apparently forgotten about the magick he was taught having found the Hierarchy too stressful for his weak little brain. As it is written by Aleister Crowley himself:
Fortify the fit, eliminate the unfit!