From: mimir@hardy.u.washington.edu (Al Billings)
Newsgroups: alt.magick
Subject: The Order of Shuti within the Temple of Set
Date: 8 Jan 1993 01:02:06 GMT
Organization: The Friends of Loki Society
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ORDER OF SHUTI
as of July 25, XXVI

Grand Master:
Robert Menschel IV*
Post Office Box 2369
Citrus Heights, CA 95611, U.S.A.
MCI-Mail: 339-4584
_____________________________________

Shu and Tefnut, the twin lion gods, are opposites. Shu and Tefnut 
are male and female, hot and cold, dry and wet, public and private, 
intellectual and emotional, et cetera and so forth.

Alone, either one would be dangerously unbalanced, and would have 
earned an evil reputation for his or her excesses. But Shu and 
Tefnut are always together. Each defines the other; each requires 
the other. Each balances and tempers the other. Shu's most prominent 
headpiece, the feather of Ma'at, emphasizes this balance, as does 
the representation of Shu through the use of this feather alone, as 
a single hieroglyph. Shuti is Shu and Tefnut together, under one 
name, as one composite being.

The Order of Shuti is dedicated to the study of Opposition and 
Balance, Opposition in Balance, Balance in Opposition, and Balance 
through Opposition. By 'Opposition' we don't mean just conflict 
(though of course that is included). We will study and use 
opposites, the actions and forces of these opposites, the ranges of 
existence between these opposites, the balance of these opposites, 
and the dynamic magical implications thereof.

One obsolete philosophy of magic was that to achieve balance, the 
magician had to experience and participate in the extremes (often 
the extremes of good and evil).

There are simply too many different pairs of opposites and extremes 
for a magician to experience them all. Further, many extremes are 
downright dangerous, such as extreme hot and cold, unnecessarily 
evil and unlawful acts, and excessively self-sacrificing acts. But 
the Initiate of Shuti will recognize and work with any and all 
opposites/extremes, and with the ranges and balances between them, 
whenever and however appropriate.

"For with no purpose the force of the mind must fall..." This study 
of opposition and balance can support many diverse goals.

One such purpose will be to study and understand the physical and 
objective universe, and the magical and subjective universe, so that 
we may change those universes (per the challenge of Michael, found 
in the _Diabolicon_'s Statement of Satan ArchDaimon).

Other goals and purposes will be supported; this is but one which 
has been defined and will be offered to interested Initiates. Any 
and all sets of opposites will be valid and appropriate areas of 
study for the Initiate. The universes are our library and our 
laboratory. But some topics will be of global interest:

Life and Death are the major pair of Opposites. We will work to 
recognize all forms and degrees of these opposites. We will work to 
always strive for Life, to always reject Death.

One set of Opposites of major interest is Self and Not-Self. How do 
we define our Selves? When we Remanifest continued existence without 
these bodily shells, how will we then define our Selves? How will we 
differentiate between personal _Xeper_ and the willful modification 
of the external universe?

We will also study Set and the Opposite Self, HarWer. We will study 
them as individual entities, as Opposite Selves, and as Satan (Set 
and HarWer fused).

Related to these above topics, we will examine the opposites of your 
own Higher Self, that towards which you _Xeper_, and your Lower 
Self, that which you Will outgrow.

Some other pairs of opposites are knowledge and ignorance, ability 
and inability, comprehension and noncomprehension, perception and 
nonperception, etc. Shu is a god of knowledge, the light of the sun. 
With Tefnut's influence, Shuti is a god of active Satanic 
enlightenment. We therefore expect the Order's Initiates to actively 
contribute material to the _Scroll of Set_ and the _Ruby Tablet of 
Set_. We also expect the Order's Initiates to participate in, 
assist, and/or lead pylons as appropriate, whether local pylons, 
pylons structured like the Gates of Hell, or otherwise.

The Order will publish a newsletter. The publication schedule will 
depend upon the quantity of material submitted. The majority of this 
material will be Order specific, dealing with the topics mentioned 
above. But reflecting Shuti's attribute of Enlightenment, the 
newsletter can also be used to circulate drafts of articles destined 
for the _Scroll of Set_ and the _Ruby Tablet of Set_, for feedback 
and refinement before their official publication.

The newsletter will also carry information useful to pylon leaders, 
and may be used as a means of communication between pylon leaders.
All II*+ Setians may subscribe to the newsletter. These 
subscriptions will be automatic and without charge for active 
members of the Order, Masters of the Temple of Set (as members of 
honor), and pylon leaders. Others may request subscriptions by 
writing to the Grand Master.

Any II*+ Setian may apply for Initiation into the Order, by writing 
to the Grand Master. There is no fee for Initiation or membership in 
the Order. The only requirement is the ability and commitment to