IIe geste esthétique. Catalogue officiel illustré de 160 dessins du second Salon de la Rose + Croix avec la règle esthétique et les constitutions de l'ordre. 28 Mars au 30 Avril 1893

still by the suffering perfumes of the earth and already bathed in the peaceful and radiant incense of heaven.

Our resources are infinite: We have Faith, Hope, and Charity. Nothing that has lasted, nothing that still exists, has had any other basis than these bases of eternity.

We see the pledge of an incredible success in the opportunity We present to Providence: never was the moment so bad for innovating in mysticism and never was a founder of an Order more crushed by his mission than We are; but God who so often used simple people, will this time accept an intellectual though a sinner, and as he employed the charms of a Jewish woman likely a reference to Esther or Judith to save his people, he will deign to take Us as the instrument of his miraculous hymn.

We proclaim it to you with a certainty that no image could express: through the work of beauty, through the will of light, through the prayer of actions, you shall have double glory, O my Brothers, Rose † Cross, Templars, Knights, O Our Sons, who will erase Our merits by your own: For Our happiness will be realized in the splendor of this ideal family of geniuses, heroes, and Mages wise masters of spiritual science: and the Grand Master will disappear, justly forgotten by the other grand masters he will call forth to arts, to gestures, and to miracles.

Here are the Constitutions: attribute to the Holy Spirit what will sanctify you, spiritualizing you; and to Our incompetence of expression what might scandalize you: these prescriptions of true light, you shall observe them with scruple. When an idea takes form, it remains fragile and still skewed toward the individual where it has become earthly.

We ask you for a moment to believe in Our mission, for Our strength can only be your confidence, just as Our subtlety is already only the abstraction, totaling in light, of the brilliant colors of your individualities.

Our reason of divinity, as one says "reason of State," resides entirely in a reform of sensibility.

Pain having been accepted as the entire material of becoming, Love is defined as the providential and attractive form of pain.

This enigma of the sexual sphinx having finally been guessed, the reign of the Holy Spirit becomes possible.

At this picture of the lover and the beloved having become executioner and victim, accomplishing the necessary work of mutual torture, what conscious being would not revolt against such an odious deception!

To substitute the Love of Beauty, the love of the idea, the love of the mystery for love: that is the action we are going to attempt on the Western soul.

By creating a passion and a pleasure of beauty, a passion and a pleasure of the idea, a passion and a pleasure of mystery, that is to say, by orchestrating within a religious solemnity the emotions of the book, the emotions of the Louvre, the emotions of Bayreuth the location of Wagner's opera house, until ecstasy is reached.

And this ecstasy, different from ordinary soul-states, is sustained by an incessant activity of realization, by an uninterrupted development of ideology.

Thus, We repair the error of Orpheus, thus we avenge his death, for we would believe we poorly satisfy the adoration of Jesus if we ignored his precursors, the Great Primitives, the Giottos and the Van Eycks of Truth.

The first Christians built temples of the true God on the ruins of pagan altars: we shall ruin the rite of Ionia referring to ancient Greek aestheticism. From this day on, the sacrilegious religion of the woman is going to falter and perish: what Mystery and Art had given to this Pandora the first woman of Greek myth, Mystery and Art take back from her through Our voice. We take away her nimbus, the gift of the poet; because sexual Love was born of the aesthetic will: let it die today in noble souls by this same will.

What We ask of Our Knights is not the vow of physical chastity, but the vow of moral widowhood.

Certainly, We proclaim the splendor of continence, but it is the heart that We wish to save from passion.

No one among the lamentable sons of sin will see the terrible threat of this utterance: and as everything is alchemized transformed as if by alchemy for the greater glory of God, the smiles and laughter that will escort us for a time will serve to mask the new danger to the countless many who must die, so that spirituality may triumph. It has pleased Us not to write the word Magic until now: and yet true initiates will recognize the total concordance of our ways with hermetic related to the secret teachings of Hermes Trismegistus ways.