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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 HaLayL's 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