The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

ECCLESIAE GNOSTICAE CATHOLICAE shrine where the Graal is exalted. He kisses the Book of the Law three times, opens it, and places it upon the super-altar. He turns West. Tue Deacon. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. I proclaim the Law of Light, Life, Love, and Lib- erty in the name of IAO. Tue ConGrEGATION. Love is the law, love under will. The Deacon goes to his place between the altar of incense and the font, faces east, and gives the step and sign of aMananda Brother. All imitate him. THE DEACON AND ALL THE PEOPLE. I believe in one secret and ineffable LORD; and in one Star in the Company of Stars of whose fire we are created, and to which we shall return; and in one Father of Life, Mystery of Mystery, in His name CHAOS, the sole viceregent of the Sun upon the Earth; and in one Air the nourisher of all that breathes. And I believe in one Earth, the Mother of us all, and in one Womb wherein all men are begotten, and wherein they shall rest, Mystery of Mystery, in Her name BABALON. And I believe in the Serpent and the Lion, Mystery of Mystery, in His name BAPHOMET. And I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is THELEMA. And I believe in the communion of Saints. And, forasmuch as meat and drink are transmuted in us daily into spiritual substance, I believe in the Miracle of the Mass. And I confess one Baptism of Wisdom, whereby we ac- complish the Miracle of Incarnation. 251