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To: thelema93-l@hollyfeld.org
From: the Reverend Rob 
Subject: Skepticism and 101 [was Re: R: R:OTO teaching Order (waz: Liber Resh)]
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 03:38:39 -0700

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

On or around 12:00 PM 11/3/99 +0100, J.M. Kleemann said:

>I'm not sure that I understand the whole reasons of your skepticism. So
>please keep in mind that my answer could be based on a misunderstanding of
>your point of view. 

I take it then that you've read Sabazius' memorandum on 101, located at
http://www.otohq.org/l101_mem.html ; I myself was initially taken back by
his comments on 101 in an official capacity, then it settled in as a
nagging concern. 

I didn't become extremely concerned about the issue at hand until I took
the new policy statements and actually applied them to Liber 101.  
 
What follows is "101-revised", with parts of the document removed and
replaced with Sabazius' comments as to the reason for removal.  I'm sure
that you won't agree 100% with my choices (I stress this particularly in
light of what may be a convenient euphemism in the "personal relationship"
cited in the original Sabazius essay), but please note the fact that this
document has been utterly gutted by this "memorandum" referenced above. 

Document follows.  All statements in quotes are directly cited from the memo.

Love is the Law, Love under Will.
----
OF THE DUTIES OF THE BRETHREN

FIRST HOUSE

1. There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt. Yet it is well for Brethren
to study daily in the Volume of the Sacred Law, Liber Legis, for therein is
much counsel
concerning this, how best they may carry out this will.

SECOND HOUSE

2. REMOVED. "All members retain full control over their personal property,
except those items of property they may choose to donate to the Order."

3. All Brethren shall be exceedingly punctual in the payment of Lodge
Dues. This is to take precedence of all other calls upon the purse.

THIRD HOUSE

4. REMOVED. "While we do encourage members to do their part in recruiting
new members, we do not expect or encourage them to aggressively proselytize
among their
friends, employers, and any wealthy or powerful acquaintances they may have."

5. They shall respond heartily to every summons of the Lodge or Chapter to
which they may belong, not lightly making excuse.

6. REMOVED. "We encourage community and all levels of social interaction
between OTO members, but they remain free to engage in personal
relationships and
marriage with whomever they choose, and to employ, work for, and do
business with whomever they
choose."

7. REMOVED. "While we do encourage members to do their part in recruiting
new members, we do not expect or encourage them to aggressively proselytize
among their
friends, employers, and any wealthy or powerful acquaintances they may have."

8. NOT IN FORCE.  "All members retain full control over their personal
property, except those items of property they may choose to donate to the
Order."

FOURTH HOUSE

9. REMOVED.  "All members retain full control over their personal
property, except those items of property they may choose to donate to the
Order."

10. REMOVED. "All members retain full control over their personal
property, except those items of property they may choose to donate to the
Order."

11. (Yet in view of the great objects of the Order, endowment is welcome.)

12. REMOVED. "They remain free to engage in personal relationships and
marriage with whomever they choose, and to employ, work for, and do
business with
whomever they choose."

FIFTH HOUSE
13.  REMOVED. "They remain free to engage in personal relationships and
marriage with whomever they choose, and to employ, work for, and do
business with
whomever they choose."

14.  All children of Brethren are to be considered as children of the
whole Order, and to be protected and aided in every way by its members
severally, as by its
organization collectively. No distinction is to be made with regard to the
conditions
surrounding the birth of any child.

15.  REMOVED. "While we do encourage members to do their part in
recruiting new members, we do not expect or encourage them to aggressively
proselytize among their
friends, employers, and any wealthy or powerful acquaintances they may have."

SIXTH HOUSE
16. Personal or domestic attendants should be chosen from among the
members of the Order when possible, and great tact and courtesy are to be
employed in dealing with them.

17. They, on their part, will render willing and intelligent service.

18. While in Lodge, and on special occasions, they are to be treated as
Brothers, with perfect equality; such behaviour is undesirable during the
hours of
service, and familiarity, subversive as it is of all discipline and order,
is to be
avoided by adopting a complete and marked change of manner and address.

19. This applies to all persons in subordinate positions, but not to the
Brethren Servient in the Profess-Houses of the Order, who, giving service
without
recompense, are to be honoured as hosts.

20. REMOVED. "They remain free to engage in personal relationships and
marriage with whomever they choose, and to employ, work for, and do
business with
whomever they choose."

21. REMOVED. "Members who are professionals, tradesmen, or businessmen are
not expected to donate their products or services to the Order, though such
donations are
gratefully received."

22. REMOVED. "Members who are professionals, tradesmen, or businessmen are
not expected to donate their products or services to the Order, though such
donations are
gratefully received."

23. NOT IN FORCE. "Lodge Masters are encouraged (as are all members) to
offer hospitality to travelling members. However, until such a time as
Order-operated lodging
facilities are available, providing hospitality to travelling members is
not considered
mandatory."

SEVENTH HOUSE

24. REMOVED. "We encourage community and all levels of social interaction
between OTO members, but they remain free to engage in personal
relationships and
marriage with whomever they choose, and to employ, work for, and do
business with whomever they
choose."

25. AMENDED. "Although our Grand Tribunal does provide arbitration for
disputes between members, the services of our legal advisers are not
available to members
free of charge.

Further, we reserve the right to waive the prohibition against law suits
between members and recuse ourselves from arbitrating any particular
dispute. In fact, it is
our policy to do so in the case of domestic disputes. The Grand Tribunal
does not arbitrate
disputes between members and non-members, though we can provide legal
referrals to our
members who require them."

26. AMENDED. "Although our Grand Tribunal does provide arbitration for
disputes between members, the services of our legal advisers are not
available to members
free of charge.

Further, we reserve the right to waive the prohibition against law suits
between members and recuse ourselves from arbitrating any particular
dispute. In fact, it is
our policy to do so in the case of domestic disputes. The Grand Tribunal
does not arbitrate
disputes between members and non-members, though we can provide legal
referrals to our
members who require them."

27. Refusal to apply for or accept such decision shall entail expulsion
from the Order, and the other party is then at liberty to seek his redress
in the Courts of
Profane Justice.

28. REMOVED. "OTO does not now encourage its members to treat those
outside the Order as inferiors who possess no rights."

29. REMOVED. "The Grand Tribunal does not arbitrate disputes between
members and non-members, though we can provide legal referrals to our
members who
require them."

30. In the case of any Brother being accused of an offence against the
criminal law of the country in which he resides, so that any other Brother
cognisant of the
fact feels bound in self-defence to bring accusation, he shall report the
matter to the Grand
Tribunal as well as to the Civil Authority, claiming exemption on this ground.

31. REMOVED. "Although our Grand Tribunal does provide arbitration for
disputes between members, the services of our legal advisers are not
available to members
free of charge."

32. Public enemies of the country of any Brother shall be treated as such
while in the field, and slain or captured as the officer of the Brother may
command.
But within the precincts of the Lodge all such divisions are to be
forgotten absolutely;
and as children of One Father the enemies of the hour before and the hour
after are to dwell
in peace, amity, and fraternity.


EIGHTH HOUSE

33. REMOVED. "All members retain full control over their personal
property, except those items of property they may choose to donate to the
Order."

34. The death of a Brother is not to be an occasion of melancholy, but of
rejoicing; the Brethren of his Lodge shall gather together and make a
banquet with music
and dancing and all manner of gladness. It is of the greatest importance
that this shall
be done, for thereby the inherited fear of death which is deep-seated as
instinct in us
will gradually be rooted out. It is a legacy from the dead aeon of Osiris,
and it is our
duty to kill it in ourselves that our children and our children's children
may be born free
from the curse.

NINTH HOUSE

35. Every Brother is expected to spend a great part of his spare time in
the study of the principles of the Law and of the Order, and in searching
out the key to
its great and manifold mysteries.

36. REMOVED. "While we do encourage members to do their part in recruiting
new members, we do not expect or encourage them to aggressively proselytize
among their
friends, employers, and any wealthy or powerful acquaintances they may have."

TENTH HOUSE

37. REMOVED. "We do not have special facilities for the care of children
or unwed mothers, nor do we accept children into any special training or
educational
programs."

38. REMOVED. "We do not have special facilities for the care of children
or unwed mothers, nor do we accept children into any special training or
educational
programs."

39. REMOVED. "We do not have special facilities for the care of children
or unwed mothers, nor do we accept children into any special training or
educational
programs." and "We no longer hold ideas of "the frontal duty of womankind"
as points of
doctrine."

40. REMOVED. "While we do encourage members to do their part in recruiting
new members, we do not expect or encourage them to aggressively proselytize
among their
friends, employers, and any wealthy or powerful acquaintances they may have. "

41. REMOVED. "We do not have special facilities for the care of children
or unwed mothers, nor do we accept children into any special training or
educational
programs."

ELEVENTH HOUSE

42. REMOVED. "While we do encourage members to do their part in recruiting
new members, we do not expect or encourage them to aggressively proselytize
among their
friends, employers, and any wealthy or powerful acquaintances they may have."

TWELFTH HOUSE

43. The Brethren are bound to secrecy only with regard to the nature of
the rituals of our Order, and to our words, signs, etc. The general
principles of the Order
may be fully explained, so far as they are understood below the VI°; as it
is written,
``The ordeals I write not: the rituals shall be half known and half
concealed: the Law is
for all.'' It is to be observed that punctual performance of these duties,
so that the
report thereof is noised abroad and the fame of it cometh even unto the
Throne of the
Supreme and Holy King himself, will weigh heavily in the scale when it
comes to be a question of
the high advancement of a Brother in the Order.

OF THE PRIVILEGES OF THE BRETHREN

FIRST HOUSE
44. The first and greatest of all privileges of a Brother is to be a
Brother; to have accepted the Law, to have become free and independent, to
have destroyed
all fear, whether of custom, or of faith, or of other men, or of death
itself. In other
papers the joy and glory of those who have accepted The Book of the Law as
the sole rule of
life is largely, though never fully, explained; and we will not here
recapitulate the same.

SECOND HOUSE

45. REMOVED. "However, dues and fees paid to OTO are not refundable under
any circumstances, and OTO does not make personal loans to its members.
Also, dues and fees
paid to OTO cannot be transferred or assigned at any time to a member's
heirs or legatees."

THIRD HOUSE

46. NOT IN FORCE. "At this time, we do not have official Profess-Houses or
special educational institutions, though we look forward to a day when we
will."

47. Circulating Libraries will presently be established.

48. NOT IN FORCE. "However, until such a time as Order-operated lodging
facilities are available, providing hospitality to travelling members is
not considered
mandatory."

FOURTH HOUSE
49. NOT IN FORCE.  "At this time, we do not have official Profess-Houses
or special educational institutions, though we look forward to a day when
we will."

50. NOT IN FORCE.  "At this time, we do not have official Profess-Houses
or special educational institutions, though we look forward to a day when
we will."

51. NOT IN FORCE.  "At this time, we do not have official Profess-Houses
or special educational institutions, though we look forward to a day when
we will."

52. REMOVED. "The members of the IX° do not hold the property of the Order
in common."

FIFTH HOUSE

53. REMOVED. "They remain free to engage in personal relationships and
marriage with whomever they choose, and to employ, work for, and do
business with
whomever they choose."

54. REMOVED. "We do not have special facilities for the care of children
or unwed mothers, nor do we accept children into any special training or
educational
programs."

55. REMOVED. "While we offer what assistance we can to the families of
members who suffer bereavement, we do not require our officers to adopt
 the orphaned children of members."

56. REMOVED. "We do not have special facilities for the care of children
or unwed mothers, nor do we accept children into any special training or
educational
programs."

SIXTH HOUSE

57. REMOVED. "Members who are professionals, tradesmen, or businessmen are
not expected to donate their products or services to the Order, though such
donations are
gratefully received."

58. In special necessity the Supreme Holy King will send his own
attendants.

59. Where circumstances warrant it, in cases of lives of great value to
the Order and the like, he may even permit the administration of that secret 
Medicine which is known to members of the IX°.

60. REMOVED. "They remain free to engage in personal relationships and
marriage with whomever they choose, and to employ, work for, and do
business with
whomever they choose."

SEVENTH HOUSE

61. REMOVED. "They remain free to engage in personal relationships and
marriage with whomever they choose, and to employ, work for, and do
business with
whomever they choose."

62. REMOVED. "Although our Grand Tribunal does provide arbitration for
disputes between members, the services of our legal advisers are not
available to members
free of charge."

EIGHTH HOUSE

63. All Brethren are entitled after death to the proper disposal of their
remains according to the rites of the Order and their grade in it.

64. REMOVED. "Also, dues and fees paid to OTO cannot be transferred or
assigned at any time to a member's heirs or legatees."

NINTH HOUSE

65. The Order teaches the only perfect and satisfactory system of
philosophy, religion, and science, leading its members step by step to
knowledge and power hardly
even dreamed of by the profane.

66. NOT IN FORCE. "At this time, we do not have official Profess-Houses or
special educational institutions, though we look forward to a day when we
will."

TENTH HOUSE

67. Women of the Order who are about to become mothers receive all care,
attention, and honour from all Brethren.

68. NOT IN FORCE. "At this time, we do not have official Profess-Houses or
special educational institutions, though we look forward to a day when we
will."

69. The Order offers great social advantages to its members, bringing them
as it does into constant association with men and women of high rank.

70. REMOVED. "They remain free to engage in personal relationships and
marriage with whomever they choose, and to employ, work for, and do
business with
whomever they choose."

ELEVENTH HOUSE

71. The Order offers friendship to its members, bringing together men and
women of similar character, taste, and aspiration.

TWELFTH HOUSE

72. The secrecy of the Order provides it members with an inviolable shroud
of concealment.

73. The crime of slander, which causes so great a proportion of human
misery, is rendered extremely dangerous, if not impossible, within the
Order by a clause in
the Obligation of the Third Degree.

74. The Order exercises its whole power to relieve its members of any
constraint to which they may be subjected, attacking with vigour any person
or persons who may
endeavour to subject them to compulsion, and in all other ways aiding in
the complete
emancipation of the Brethren from aught that may seek to restrain them from
doing That Which
They Will. It is to be observed that these privileges being so vast, it is
incumbent
upon the honour of every Brother not to abuse them, and the sponsors of any
Brother who does
so, as well as he himself, will be held strictly to account by the Grand
Tribunal. The
utmost frankness and good faith between Brethren is essential to the easy
and harmonious
working of our system, and the Executive Power will see to it that these
are encouraged by all
means possible, and that breach of them is swiftly and silently suppressed.

Love is the law, love under will.

Our fatherly benediction, and the Blessing of the All-Father in the Outer
and the Inner be upon you.

BAPHOMET X° O.T.O., IRELAND, IONA, AND ALL THE BRITAINS


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