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

Until then, we shall warm the Holy Grail the sacred vessel of Christ's blood with the faithful beating of our heart; we shall militate against Infidelity, a few against nearly all, unfolding, at the breath of Our enthusiasm, the ROSE of masterpieces.

Today we command, after having sought for eleven years to obey, with true humility and a very painful feeling of our imperfection.

According to the rule of the Friars Minor the Franciscans confirmed by the bull of Honorius III where it is written: "Brother Francis promises obedience to Our Lord the Pope and to his legitimate successors. For the other brothers, they shall be obliged to obey Brother Francis and his successors." : Our authority being abstract, it is absolute over the three orders, and in this world We answer only to the Pope, and in the other only to the Holy Spirit.

We shall name Our successor Ourselves, at the moment of returning Our soul to God, before the Grail, in Monsalvat the legendary castle of the Holy Grail restored.

For Our suzerain Jesus will allow his new sons to fulfill their vow of the ideal.

It is therefore at Monsalvat, in Our stall as Grand Master, before the Holy Sacrament, that We give a rendezvous to death.

In these walls of an invented style, covered in frescoes, flanked by statues, in these walls enclosing, like so many chapels around the High Altar, the laboratory of the scientist and the library of the philosopher;

In these walls whose echo will know only the declamation of Aeschylus or the cry of the Ninth Symphony: halting for a moment the funeral march of Titurel the first Grail King, We shall designate with Our failing hand, which will have worked so much, that one of Our Gurnemanz the wise mentor from the Parsifal legend, or Our Parsifal the pure hero, elected to this fearsome glory.

We unveil Our ambition: this death. It is so sublime that no one will accuse Us of seeking any other success.

Here stand three porticoes of Eternity.

You, artists of all arts, come to "the Rose † Cross."

You, volunteers, knights of every prowess, come to the Temple;

You, priests and faithful, to serve the Holy Spirit, come to the Grail.

All of you who are frightened by the rigor of religious orders, you,

makers of masterpieces, of gestures, of miracles, come to Our call: "To love Beauty more than oneself and to have as a neighbor, as a dear other, the Ideal." Come as you are, sinners but poets, unbelievers but enthusiasts, without virtues but full of works: come form the brotherhood of those who save themselves through glory.

Artists, do you believe in the Parthenon and in Saint-Ouen, in Leonardo and in the Nike of Samothrace, in Beethoven and in Parsifal: you will be admitted into the Rose † Cross.

Men of letters, scholars, philosophers, archaeologists, physicists and metaphysicians: whether you are of the Academy or the Portico referring to the Stoic school of philosophy, microprographers or synthetists, O all you who are bent over the unknown, come, even the Brahmin, even the rabbi, even the Muslim, to give your share of light and receive the clarity of others: and the Rose † Cross will be the true Aristia a gathering of the best or a contest of excellence.

Volunteers and active ones, fanatics and enthusiasts, do you believe in the necessity of heroes, geniuses, and saints, in the face of egoists, fools, and the wicked? Do you believe there is any other career to walk than that of devotion? Do you believe in the word of Golgotha? You will be admitted into the Temple.

Virile ones of all activities, people of good will of every state, the wealthy and workers, through gold or labor, come like rivers or streams to throw yourselves into this sea of enthusiastic zeal that is forming: and the Temple will be the angelic legion on earth.

Finally, you, sons of the Church, faithful and priests, come to learn of the honors of beauty due to the Holy Spirit, come to pray through works and acts, and to learn Christian duty, no longer in its selfishness of salvation, but inflamed with a passion of the heart that leaves nothing in us for human and derisive passion; you will be admitted before the Grail.

Christians, We invite you to a novelty of perfection; purity of intention is not enough for the Holy Spirit: he wants victory. The strength of passions, the prestige of art, we must create them in Faith and virtue; the Saints must smile like the Graces, the heart of Saint Francis must exhale through the lips of Plato, and Beauty must be all in God. To sanctify genius, to make sanctity a thing of genius, that is the vow, and the knighthood of the Grail will be like a middle world softened