（外文电子版资料）Aleister Crowley - The O.T.O Gnostic Mass.docVIP

BAPHOMET XI? Liber XV {Book 15} O. T. O. Ecclesiae Gnosticae Catholicae Canon Missae Edited from the Ancient Documents in Assyrian and Greek by The Master Therion Crowley composed the O.T.O. Gnostic Mass on a visit to Moscow in 1915 E.V. It is the central ritual of the O.T.O., public and private. He gave it its first publication in New York in The International several years later. Variant versions subsequently appeared in The Equinox III(1) (Detroit: Universal, 1919) and in Magick in Theory and Practice (Paris: Lecram, 1929). This edition of the Gnostic Mass is a composite of the three versions. Prepared by Frater HaLayL, it was first published in the journal Ecclesia Gnostica I(3), and is here republished with Frater HaLayLs annotations.--H.B. I OF THE FURNISHINGS OF THE TEMPLE IN THE EAST, that is, in the direction of Boleskine, which is situated on the South-Eastern shore of Loch Ness in Scotland, two miles east of Foyers, is a shrine or High Altar. Its dimensions should be 7 feet in length, 3 feet in breadth, 44 inches in height. It should be covered with a crimson altar-cloth, on which may be embroidered fleur-de-lys in gold, or a sunblaze, or other suitable emblem. On each side of it should be a pillar or obelisk, with countercharges in black and white. Below it should be the dais of three steps, in black and white squares. Above it is the super-altar, at whose top is the St^ele of Revealing in reproduction, with four candles on each side of it. Below the st^ele is a place for The Book of the Law, with six candles on each side of it. Below this again is the Holy Graal, with roses on each side of it. There is room in front of the Cup for the Paten. On each side beyond the roses are two great candles. All this is enclosed within a great Veil. Forming the apex of an equilateral triangle whose base is a line drawn between the pillars, is a small black square altar, of superimposed cubes. Taking this altar as the middle of the base of a similar and equal triangle