From: mark.terka@rose.com (mark terka)
Subject: Rosy Cross (2/2)
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Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 17:12:50 GMT
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Date Entered: 10-04-92 12:07
cont from last message..
   This must have continued for a great length of time.  To me it seemed as if 
eternity itself could not contain the variety and depth of my experiences.
Tongue nor pen could record them; and yet I am fain to attempt the impossible.
   1. I was, certainly and undoubtedly, the star in the canopy.  This star was 
an incomprehensibly enormous world of pure flame.
   2. I suddenly realized that the star was of no size whatever.  It was not  
that the star shrank, but that it (= I) became suddenly conscious of infinite 
space.
   3. An explosion took place.  I was in consequence a point of light,         
infinitely small, yet infinitely bright, and this point was "without 
position."
   4. Consequently this point was ubiquitous, and there was a feeling of      
infinite bewilderment, blinded after a very long time by a gush of infinite 
rapture (I use the word "blinded" as if under constraint; I should have 
preferred to use the words "blotted out" or "overwhelmed" or "illuminated").
   5. This infinite fullness -!- I have not described it as such, but it was   
that -!- was suddenly changed into a feeling of infinite emptiness, which 
became conscious as a yearning.
   6. These two feelings began to alternate, always with suddenness, and      
without in any way overlapping, with great rapidity.
   7. This alternation must have occurred fifty times -!- I had rather have   
said an hundred. 
   8. The two feelings suddenly became one.  Again the word explosion is the   
only one that gives any idea of it.
   9. I now seemed to be conscious of everything at once, that it was at the   
same time "one" and "many."  I say "at once," that is, I was not successively 
all things, but instantaneously.
   10. This being, if I may call it being, seemed to drop into an infinite     
abyss of Nothing.
   11. While this "falling" lasted, the bell suddenly tinkled three times.  I  
instantly became my normal self, yet with a constant awareness, which has 
never left me to this hour, that the truth of the matter is not this normal 
"I" but "That" which is still dropping into Nothing.  I am assured by those 
who know that I may be able to take up the thread if I attend another 
ceremony.
   The tinkle died away.  The girl attendant ran quickly forward and folded   
the ermine over the celebrants.  The herald blew a fanfare, and the Knights 
and Dames left their stalls.  Advancing to the board, we took hold of the 
gilded carrying poles, and followed the herald in procession out of the 
chapel, bearing the litter to a small side-chapel leading out of the middle 
anteroom, where we left it, the guard closing the doors.
   In silence we disrobed, and left the house.  About a mile through the woods 
we found my friend's automobile waiting.
   I asked him, if that was a low mass, might I not be permitted to witness a  
High Mass?
   "Perhaps," he answered with a curious smile, "if all they tell of you is   
true."
   In the meanwhile he permitted me to describe the ceremony and its results   
as faithfully as I was able, charging me only to give no indication of the 
city near which it took place. 
   I am willing to indicate to initiates of the Rose Croix degree of Masonry  
under proper charter from the genuine authorities (for there are spurious 
Masons working under a forged charter) the address of a person willing to 
consider their fitness to affiliate to a Chapter practising similar rites.

                                     XVI

   I consider it supererogatory to continue my essay on the Mysteries and my  
analysis of "Energized Enthusiasm."
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So, what did you think? Its the best description of a sex magic rite I 've
come across...at least...I think it was a sex magic rite.....any comments?


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