SALON OF THE ROSE † CROSS

the right to appeal to the insights of the Order, to the forgotten arts, regarding Birth, Education, Love, and Death.

XXXII. — If she should exercise her perversity upon the knights and cause them to fall into passion, she would be placed under the ban of the Vehme a secret medieval German tribunal and defamed.

XXXIII. — The Order possesses nothing except the present and future theater of the Sar a title meaning Prince or King, adopted by the author Peladan. It expects everything from heaven and from its influence on minds and hearts.

XXXIV. — The Order intends to enact a supreme reaction upon the elements that the Church rejects or which escape its grasp; here are some clarifying specializations:

ROSE † CROSS

XXXV. — This branch manifests annually in March and April through:
1. A salon of all the arts of design.
2. An idealist theater, until it can become hieratic related to sacred or priestly rituals.
3. Performances of sublime music.
4. And lectures suitable for awakening the ideality of socialites.

The Rose † Cross, having beauty as its orthodoxy, has created a corporation with the title of

PROVOSTSHIP OF THE PAST

It establishes in each city an aesthetician whose mission is to report the state of all monuments and to act as the overseer of all things of art.

A provincial provost centralizes these reports, which lead to representations by the Order to the King or ministers: if these remain without effect, a quarterly denunciation at first, and later a monthly one, will be made to the cultivated world.

The provost and the consul must coordinate to also identify artistic or scientific vocations, especially among the poor and workers, so that the Order may watch over them.

SECOND AESTHETIC DEED

According to the worldly influences at its disposal, the Order will assist in the success of all ideality and will impede realism and the vulgar.

TEMPLE

XXXVI. — The Templar extends to all forms of individuality the concern that the Rose † Cross restricts to art and artists; he adheres with all his activity to the Order and works for its glory abstractly. He is symbolically a Brother Pontiff a bridge-builder, a realizer of both the individual destinies of the Rose † Cross and the Reign of the Grail.

THE GRAIL

XXXVII. — The Order of the Grail has the mission of reconquering a place for Grand Art within Catholicism: to fight against current architecture, foolish imagery, idiotic hymns, and blasphemous religious trinkets. It takes from the Rose † Cross the architects, painters, and sculptors employed for religious buildings: finally, it prepares the Church to once again become the Ark of Beauty as well as of Subtlety.

Here end the Constitutions as they were written for the first time in the year 1887 of Jesus Christ.

The Rule, including the ceremonial and the various spiritual exercises, will be released for public reading at the opening of the third salon of the Rose † Cross.

The imprimatur official license to print given by the Grand Master this 11th of November, in the year 1892 of the Redemption, in the city of Antwerp.

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