The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

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 xiii