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Antiquities of the Illuminati

Antiquities of the Illuminati seeks to tell The Story. What is The
Story? The Story of the granting of Wisdom to humankind by its
Benefactors, and the survival, in human incarnations, of said
Benefactors. This Story includes making sense of the tangled web of
sects, creeds, religious groups, secret societies, mystical
associations, and other groups throughout the four thousand year
period, beginning roughly 2050 B. C. E., and continuing beyond our
present year, to 2050 C. E.

Another object of this, is to establish the Truth of History,
concerning certain events in our past, which have led to the mess
that is today. In a sense, this is a Textual Time Machine.

The legends of High Grade Rites were influenced by the Philalethes -
via the letters of the elusive Baron de Westerode. This is where the
story originated. In Italy, the same Italy that a number of
important parties in the STORY visited, lived in, worked in, played
in.

It begins with a survey of the Gold Rosicrucians of 1777, their
antecedents and their successors. These are the survivors of the
original Rosicrucians, even though we have our detractors. Then the
scene shifts to the Quietist movement, its ancient roots and its
succession in the world of High Grade Freemasonry and other Esoteric
Orders.

Also, since one of the Rites that propagated the ORMUS legend was
the Rite of Memphis, we cover this thread. From our stats we can
tell that this is one of the more popular segments we have offered
on the AI Site. The Readings segment has a large number of important
Memphis-related texts. In addition, we provide an initiated
interpretation of some of the legends.

As ORMUS is an important figure in these legends, we must look into
the name itself, and who this personality may have represented, in
the segment entitled, "Who is ORMUS?" We offer a large Readings
segment on the Thebaid Brethren and related ideas.

Because it is stated that ORMUS was converted by Saint Mark, we
analyze this particular thread, including the "secret gospel" of
Morton Smith.

This, of course, naturally leads us headlong into the "Deep Things
of SATAN", one of our finest segments to date. See for yourself. It
prepares the interested (and engaged) student, for "Honey and
Peppers," a paraphrase and initiated commentary upon Epiphanius'
rant about the Borborites. Also, some more of J. M. Allegro's
interpretation of same.

From there we analyze the Catharist-Perfection oriented groups,
somewhat related through ancestry to the Borborites, and to the
Quietist strand. Also, our interpretation of the Grail Mythos.

6. THE GRAIL AS TECHNOLOGY.
The Cranium being the Chalice, and the Spiritual Wine being the
Light that dwelleth therein¦

The Technology involves developing the Vehicle for the Indwelling of
this Light.

This is connected with the Polar Axes of the Being as a Whole,

And this, in its turn, has to do with the Spinal Column, the
grounding of the Person and the development of the Knowledge and
Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel, in Western Parleyvoo, and
Communion with the Eternal One, Blessed Be IT, in our own jargon.
Otherwise: Absolute Self-Knowledge. Or, should we say: SELF-
Knowledge.

The Particulars are set forth in a number of works which are readily
available online or in some of the Better Stores, and in our
hitherto unpublished Second Series of Antiquities of the Illuminati
(The Brethren of the GIFT is the FIRST), The Code of the Eternal.

This can be regarded as truly the Highest Magick, not that White
Light Magic practiced by those who make spells with which to control
people despite the existence of Individual Wills. As we get more and
more into Book Three, we shall be covering some of this Technology,
as far as we can.


Ruggiu Article.


"In fact, the original Fratres Lucis or "Brotherhood of Light" was
founded in Germany by the baron Ecker Von Eckhoffen, a past member
of the Golden Rosy+Cross and also founder of Asiatic Brethren. All
these German fraternities were deeply involved with the practice of
alchemy. My historical researches into these topics proved that many
members belonging to the Asiatic Brethren or Fratres Lucis became
members of a German masonic lodge called L'Aurore Naissante (or "the
Nascent Dawn") founded in Frankfurt-on-Main in 1807. Westcott wrote
that this lodge was a "very ancient Rosicrucian Lodge of Frankfurt-
on-Main where Lord Bulwer Lytton was received into Adeptship". It is
true that Bulwer-Lytton went to Germany on a long visit during the
years 1841-1843 (his novel "Zanoni" was first published in 1842), so
he could have been initiated in the lodge of the Nascent Dawn which
still existed at the time. But before this event, Lytton did also
sojourn in Italy, at Naples, during the years 1833-34, where he
received some occult instructions probably from the prince San
Severo, who was a member of the Golden Rosy+Cross." -- Rosicrucian
Alchemy and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, by Jean Pascal
Ruggiu, Imperator of the Ahathoor Temple, Paris, 1996.