ORDER OF ORIENTAL TEMPLARS
These few preliminary remarks may be sufficient for
those who desire information concerning our order; to those
who feel themselves capable to apply for admission, further
instructions will be given.
Address all communications to The Grand Secretary
General, M..M.’.M.-., c/o THE Equinox, 33 Avenue Studios,
76 Fulham Road, South Kensington, S.W.
THE FOLLOWING
DISCOURSE
(Translated from the original French)
Was lately pronounced at Brunswick (Lower Saxony) where
PRINCE .........-. ts GRAND MASTER
of M., by COUNT T., at the Initiation of his Son.
“TI congratulate you on your admission into the most
ancient, and perhaps the most respectable, society in the
universe. To you the mysteries of M. are about to be
revealed, and so bright a sun never shed lustre on your
eyes. In this awful moment, when prostrate at this holy
altar, do you not shudder at every crime, and have you not
confidence in every virtue? May this reflection inspire you
with noble sentiments ; may you be penetrated with a religious
abhorrence of every vice that degrades human nature; and
may you feel the elevation of soul which scorns a dishonour-
able action, and ever invites to the practice of piety and
virtue.
“These are the wishes of a father and a brother con-
joined. Of you the greatest hopes are raised; let not our
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