Sekhet-Maat Lodge

Here is a message from the Editor of Lion & Serpent:

Brothers, Sisters, and Friends,

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

Sekhet-Maat Lodge has now released more than ten years of Lion & Serpent's digital archive for free. We have coordinated our resources to enable distribution of even the most recent issues immediately. Our intention is to make this a practice with future issues, as well, publishing both the print and PDF formats simultaneously.

We are also offering a new way to support the journal. Many people from all over the world have chosen to support our work with a subscription to the print edition of L&S. It is our hope that the high quality printed artwork and collectibility of the paper version will continue to attract new and renewing subscribers. In addition to this, we are now making possible sponsorship opportunities for individuals, organizations, businesses, families, etc.

You can sponsor one year of Lion & Serpent publication for as little as $10. Come view the details of this new program at our journal's website:
http://sekhetmaat.com/Journal

Love is the law, love under will.

• The September financial statement is now available.
• Earlier this year we repaired the floor in the Classroom and painted the entryway. Check out the time-lapse video on YouTube!
• The parting address of our most recent Past Master, Fr. ΝΘΛΜΚΜΝΡΓ, has been added to the Documents section.
• Crowley's memorandum to O.T.O. Lodges, Regulations on Greetings is now available in our Documents section.
• Crowley's treatise, The Scientific Solution of the Problem of Government, is now available in our Documents section.
• The Libra issue of Lion & Serpent is now available for purchase on our website, at the Lodge or at Reading Frenzy downtown.

• We have added two photos to the main Lion & Serpent page, showing a couple of our members working on the journal at the Independent Publishing Resource Center.
• Some issues of Lion & Serpent have been downloaded over 2000 times! View our journal's download statistics which have just been updated.
• The Master Therion—A Biographical Note, describing the origins of the Master Therion and his mission, is now available.
• Crowley's essay, On Sexual Freedom, describes Thelemic sexual ethics. Read it online here!
• The August financial statement is now available.
• Read the newly added essay by Aleister Crowley entitled On the Education of Children.

Here is a message from the Editor of Lion & Serpent:

Brothers, Sisters, and Friends,

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

I'm pleased to announce the availability of the equinox in Libra issue of Sekhet-Maat Lodge's official journal, Lion & Serpent. This issue contains 32 pages densely packed with new writings, columns, and art produced entirely by Lodge members:

• "Daath Elohim" by Liv Rainey-Smith
• "An Account of the Season" by Editor
• "The Starry Sky" by Sr. Theodora
• "Past Master's Address" by Fr. NThLMKMNRG
• "Master's Address" by Fr. IOI
• "Moses Got It All Wrong" by Fr. Didymus
• "The Birth of Maat" by Sr. Lola Daydream
• "Creed Comparison" by Br. Obelos
• "Mr. Clown" by Fr. Andropos Troy
• "Liber LXV Series (part 1)" by Dathan

Sekhet-Maat members and affiliates are welcome to pick up their free copy at the Lodge. Non-members can order copies for $4 ($15 for 4-issue subscription) at http://sekhetmaat.com/wiki/Journal/Read

Portland locals can also purchase them at the Lodge or downtown at Reading Frenzy.

Love is the law, love under will.

• The July financial statement is now available.
• The classic Unicursal Hexagram design is now available for the first time on t-shirts, mugs, and more: click here! or visit our CaféPress store to browse our other designs.
• Crowley's essay, The Method of Thelema, describes the practical application of Thelema in day-to-day life. Read it online here!
• We have organized our Documents page for easier browsing, with new sections for The Book of the Law, Thelemic rituals, O.T.O. Vision statements, and more.

• See the many new photos added to this year's Gnostic Mass photo album.
• Four years ago, Past Master Br. Joseph Thiebes wrote an analysis of the challenge of property acquisition entitled Manifesting the Lodge. Read this essay now conveniently available here.
• The June financial statement is now available.

• Sync your calendar with ours, or add it to your Google calendar with our real-time iCal feed
• Read the newly added essay by Aleister Crowley entitled On Thelema.

• Check out the new Thelemic Calendar which shows the transits of sun and moon for the year, and add it to your Google Calendar or your native calendar application with the corresponding iCal file.
• The May financial statement is now available.
• See spring in full bloom in the new photos of the Lodge Exterior.
• With the release of the print edition of Lion & Serpent 14, No. 1 comes the PDF of the previous issue, now available. Download it today and enjoy!
• The April financial statement is now available.

Website updates!

• Event pics have been posted to the Initiation in the Aeon of the Child page.
• New photos have been added to the Feasts page.
• The archive of our announcement e-mail list is now publicly accessible. Check out our past announcements here.
• Sekhet-Maat Lodge's Baptism Study Guide (PDF) is now available on the E.G.C. Committee page.
• A new page is now available: EGC Committee, where information about the logistical planning of our ecclesiastical activities can be found. See also: Ecclesiastical Rites.

Financial Summary

For complete information visit: April 2009 Profit and Loss Statements.

Monthly Percentage

105.00%

Yearly Percentage to date

103.57%

This month makes the fifth of the last six that we've had our self-sufficiency over 100%, this month edging us closer to our target for the year of 105%. We're making great progress on this, though it's important to keep in mind that we have a substantial annual expense ($500/year liability insurance premium) coming up in June that will knock us back several percentage points if we don't keep ahead of the curve.

Cari Fratres, Sorores, et Amici,

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

In order to focus on the many changes that have taken place in my personal life in the last year, I plan to step down from my position as Lodge Master, and will nominate Geoff to take my place. Assuming this change will be approved by the Electoral College, it will be made official on Sol in Leo, Luna in Pisces, dies Veneris, Anno Legis IV:xvii (August 7, 2009 e.v.).

I am very proud of being a member of Sekhet-Maat Lodge, and honored to have served as its Master. I am doubly proud of my brothers and sisters who have worked so hard over the last ten years since my own Minerval, and some of you long before that, to build the presence of O.T.O. in Portland to the level it is at today. We have broken new ground in the history of O.T.O. many times together, and I know that we will continue to do so in coming years.

I will remain an active member of the Lodge, continuing to serve as Priest and Initiator, and will continue to facilitate classes, discussions, and rituals as usual.

Geoff's strength of character, wisdom, and intelligence will lead us to the next stage of our evolution, and I consider him to be the most qualified and best suited person for this job right now. Because of this, I am simply thrilled that he will take the reins. Please join me in thanking Geoff for agreeing to take on this challenging responsibility.

Love is the law, love under will.

In the Bonds of the Order,
I am Fraternally Yours,
and in Universal Brotherhood,

Fr. NThLMKMNRG
Parsifal

• T. Thorn Coyle will offer a book signing and a lecture entitled Self Possession and Drawing Down the 'I am' on Friday, Jun 12. Click here for details about this event.

• A new drawing has been added (along with a few existing photos) to the Ecclesiastical Rites page. This drawing depicts a Gnostic Mass temple and appears as a page in The Marvel, an upcoming graphic novel about the life of pioneering rocket scientist and O.T.O. initiate Jack Parsons.

• We have added a new social networking graphic, containing our weekly public schedule, to our Promotion page, which can be posted to your websites or blog. Click here to go directly to the new graphic and see the code you can use to embed it in your site.

In case you missed it, The G-Spot podcast has an excellent interview with Richard Carbonneau, author of the The Marvel, an upcoming graphic novel about the life of rocket scientist and O.T.O. initiate Jack Parsons.

Richard has kindly permitted Sekhet-Maat Lodge to use a page from The Marvel in our materials. This image, depicting a Gnostic Mass temple, in coming weeks will be printed on postcards that you will be able to find freely available at various locations around town. Keep an eye out for them!

• Crowley's essay, The Beginning of the New World is now available and listed on the Documents page.
• The March financial statement is now available.
• More photos have been added to several pages: Temple, Classroom, Library, and Gnostic Mass Photos Anno 04:17

Join us in welcoming J. Daniel Gunther, teacher and student of the A∴ A∴, to Portland for a lecture on the formulae of the aeon of Horus. A book signing and soirée will follow the lecture. Register early and get a discount on the book! Portlanders who register will be able to pick up their copies directly from Sekhet-Maat as early as next week.


Initiation in the Aeon of the Child - Sekhet-Maat Lodge - May 2, 2009 e.v.

• Photos of the event have been added to the Thelemic Symposium VIII page.
• We have changed our mailing address to match our street address, and given up the P.O. Box. Find our new postal address, along with phone, email, and nearby lodging information, on our Contact Information page.
• We have produced a new video of The Mass of the Phoenix available now on our YouTube channel.
• We have completed the collection of photos for Anno IV:xvi and have now added the first Mass photo for Anno IV:xvii.

Three new titles! These books are on the (sexy) circulation shelf and ready for lending.

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White Stains & The Nameless Novel: Flowers of Eros and Evil. Aleister Crowley

From Wet Angel Books... White Stains remains Aleister Crowley's most infamous work, his attempt at taking the Satanic/erotic decadence of Baudelaire and ramping it up to new extremes of degradation, sexual depravity and demonic frenzy in this over-the-top compendium of eros and evil. This new edition of White Stains also includes Crowley's rare later volume, The Nameless Novel (1904), a rampant pornographic novella written to stimulate and amuse his wife. With a new introduction by Crowley scholar D.M. Mitchell, the book is illustrated with rare examples of Victorian erotic photography, making it a decorative document of fin-de-siècle erotica, as well as a unique compendium of Crowley s most outrageous and notorious literary output.

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Self-Initiation Into the Golden Dawn Tradition: A Complete Curriculum of Study for Both the Solitary Magician and the Working Magical Group. Chic Cicero, Sandra Tabatha Cicero.

From Llewellyn... The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn has been considered one of the most important Western magical systems for over a century. Although much of their knowledge has been published, to really enter the system required initiation within a Golden Dawn temple — until now.

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The Mystical and Magical System of the A∴A∴ - The Spiritual System of Aleister Crowley & George Cecil Jones Step-by-Step. James A. Eshelman

“Never before have the inner pathways of this Journey been so finely mapped, nor the Way so clearly marked. To you, dear children of the Light, do we deliver freely what has been given to us. May the Way be opened for all who would walk it, proudly, joyously, serenely – with strength, wisdom, love, and the LIGHT which informs them with Beauty.” – from Chapter 11 of the Mystical and Magical System of the A∴A∴

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• New photos from the Equinoctial celebrations are now available on our Temple and Classroom pages.

Please join us on March 20 for Equinox in Aries and the Supreme Ritual.  This year we are celebrating the exact moment of the Thelemic New Year in the morning, and the Supreme Ritual in the evening.  Events are as follows:

Equinox in Aries (4:30am March 20)

As many of you have heard, in addition to the Supreme Ritual celebration, feast and dancing on the evening of March 20, we will also have another ritual early that morning.

This will be a very special occasion for the exact moment of the Equinox in Aries, the Thelemic New Year, on March 20. Doors will be open starting at 7:30pm the night before, and members and guests are welcome to nap at the Lodge. The doors will be locked for ritual at 4:30am.

For those of you choosing to attend the night before, please bring drinks and food to share.  There will NOT be a cash bar or food served.

After the ritual in the morning, we will be enjoying a potluck breakfast together, please email me offlist if you plan to come, and with your plans for food items.

Supreme Ritual (7:30pm March 20)

Please join us as we celebrate the Feast for the Supreme Ritual.

The evening will begin with a ritual celebration and include a potluck feast and ecstatic dancing as we continue from our early morning ringing in of the Thelemic New Year!

There will be a cash bar with various local wines and microbrews available for purchase.

Doors open at 7:30pm Doors close for ritual at 8:00pm and will reopen for dancing and feasting after the ritual is over.

Website Updates

• The February financial statement is now available.
• Our Novitiate Training Program page has been overhauled, mainly for clarity and simple presentation but also including a couple minor updates to match current policy.
• We have added photos of two of the Lodge's paintings both by River Soma to the website: Baphomet on the Classroom page, and The Devil Bakes Chocolate Chip Cookies on the Office page. Both paintings are by River Soma.
• We have a new page with information and photos of the Office inside the Lodge.

Sekhet-Maat Lodge will soon issue a new series of four booklets, the Kaaba Series. This was originally created in Norwegian by T Omphalos at Sangraal Lodge in the valley of Trondheim and adapted for the U.S. by Fr. NΘΛMKMNΡΓ (along with some graphical changes). The booklet series corresponds with (and advertises) a public reading and discussion which happens on the 2nd Tuesday of every month, where the documents in the booklet are read aloud, and discussed piece by piece. We plan to print a large volume of these booklets, to distribute to the public.

The first volume, The Great Beast 666, is now available in PDF form by clicking here. We are still looking for typographical errors. Please help us find them! We plan to eventually print 1000 of these in the first run, so we'd like to make sure that it's free of errors!

The only opportunity you have to see and hear Thelemic Symposium is at Thelemic Symposium! http://www.thelemic-symposium.com

Recording devices are prohibited at Thelemic Symposium. Non-flash photography is permitted. The restriction against recording is in the interest of promoting an atmosphere of immediacy, encouraging the panelists to speak candidly, and minimizing the "audience/performer" dynamic. Mediated content is very easy to find in the world today in video, audio, and text formats. Immediate content is rare, and Symposium aims to preserve a sense of immediacy because the topic is so personal. Panelists may choose to publish their prepared material on their own, but that's as close as you can get without attending.

Tickets will sell out in the final couple of weeks, and are already half sold. Anyone can purchase tickets online by visiting http://www.thelemic-symposium.com