SECOND AESTHETIC DEED

SECOND AESTHETIC CHARTER

OF THE LAY ORDER

OF THE TEMPLE OF THE ROSE CROSS

AND THE HOLY SPIRIT

original: "Rosæ Crucis Templi et Spiritus Sancti Laïci Ordinis Charta Esthetica Seconda"

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Under the Tau, the Greek Cross, and the Latin Cross; before the Grail, the Beauséant the black and white banner of the Templars, and the Cruciferous Rose; in Roman Catholic communion with Joseph of Arimathea, Hugues de Payens founder of the Knights Templar, and Dante; We, by divine mercy and the assent of our brothers, Grand Master of the Rose + Cross of the Temple, very humble servant of the Ideal God,

To all those of Our Order and to all those whom it shall concern to enter or assist therein, Greeting and eternal Glory.

If Paris has seen an attempt at aesthetic renovation similar to the Pre-Raphaelite movement of Ruskin, Rossetti, Burne-Jones, and Watts, despite the intruding canvases exhibited through betrayal:

The honor belongs to the Rose + Cross.

If Paris heard the vocal sublimities of Palestrina and the old sacred masters at Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protais during Holy Week:

The honor belongs to the Rose + Cross, which arranged the performance of the Mass of Pope Marcellus.

If the salon of the Champs-Élysées has attempted to showcase young composers:

The honor belongs to the Rose + Cross, which prepared the Moonlight Sonata by Benedictus.

If Mr. Francisque Sarcey a famous conservative drama critic of the era, faced with The Son of the Stars original: "Le Fils des Étoiles", a play by Péladan with music by Erik Satie, which was classical in its writing and calm and simple in its storytelling, was forced to admit he was the naive enemy of noble art—having been stripped of his usual so-called traditional pretexts and pretending instead to have slept:

The honor belongs to the Rose + Cross.

If, at the evenings of May 24th, 26th, and 28th, at the Theater of Application, socialites heard a magical discourse on love, art, and mystery:

The honor belongs to the Rose + Cross—in its first aesthetic deed.

The second deed of 1893 begins with a series of lectures by the Grand Master in Belgium and Holland, and the publication of the constitutions of the Order, no longer merely in its aesthetic branch, but according to the breadth of a true universal brotherhood of intellects.

This new year of our effort manifests Divine protection.

What was an exhibition becomes a Salon, a rival to the other two, and the Rosicrucian theater, alongside the Chaldean idyll, represents the tragedy of Babylon, a work of severe art and priestly intention.

Music will have its festivals with the piano of Madame Saillard-Dietz, the vocal ensembles directed by Mr. Christian Gallia, and the violin of Mademoiselle Corry-Lange...

And so that one may see the path traveled and what ideas the order has successfully imposed upon the understanding of journalists, we give here the rule of the Salon of the Rose + Cross, which is henceforth annual.

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