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

the fullness of the doctrine and swears fidelity to the person of the Grand Master.

The Knight of the Grail is a priest or a practicing Catholic and adores the eucharistic Grail, not simply in devotion, but by adorning the Temple through all the arts, and by inviting all the sciences to take shelter under the Faith with their free research. For it is to doubt God to fear any human thing against divine things, or to fear that a human spirit might checkmate the Holy Spirit.

XI. — Whoever believes himself chosen to enter the Order must first address to the Grand Mastery a gravely meditated response to the following eleven questions:

1. Who are you?
2. What is your void?
3. Toward what does your will tend?
4. How will you realize yourself?
5. By what force?
6. State your attractions and your repulsions.
7. Define Glory.
8. State the hierarchy of beings.
9. Qualify wisdom.
10. Call upon happiness.
11. Name sorrow.

XII. — If the written response gives cause for approval by the Commandery, the postulant will be summoned to hear a sincere warning about the difficult duties he ambitions: unless his firmness is guaranteed by a Commander, two Knights, and four Squires, acting as sponsors.

XIII. — After a time, the postulant will be admitted to verbally defend the eleven propositions he has written, and if he does not persist in the errors of doctrine he may have expressed, he is admitted to pronounce the oath of ideality, of which here is the formula.

XIV. — > "I swear upon my eternal becoming, to seek, admire, and love Beauty through the ways of art and mystery; to praise, serve, and defend it even at my peril; to keep my heart from sexual love to give it to the ideal; and to never seek poetry in woman, who presents only its coarse image.

I swear it before My Lord Leonardo da Vinci, patron of the Rose † Cross."

XV. — And once this is pronounced, he is told by the presiding Commander acting with Magisterial authority:

"Be then a Squire of the Rose † Cross, and remember to carry your heart proudly, so that only the enthusiasm of the ideal inhabits and immortalizes it. So be it."

XVI. — The probationary period of a Squire, which is without limitation, depends on merits and zeal. He participates according to his faculties in the works of the Order, and has the right to the advice of the learned and to the moral and intellectual support of all.

XVII. — A Squire who wishes to become a Knight must choose between the three planes, according to his propensity:

Postulate the pink and black tunic of the Rose † Cross, if he believes only in Art and Science, in the masterpiece and the experience of the document.

Or the white robe with the red cross of the Templar, if he believes in the word of Jesus.

Or finally the blue robe of the Grail if he adores the real presence in the Eucharist.

XVIII. — The reception of the Knight can be performed by a Commander, upon the acceptive act of the Grand Mastery. Here is the knightly oath:

"I swear upon my eternal salvation to seek, admire, love, and defend truth in facts as in persons, to praise and protect it even at my peril; to devote myself to all those who carry within them a work or a flame, to seek glory only in the perfection of others, to honor the Abstract with a true cult, and to obey in all things its zealot, my Grand Master; I swear it before My Lord Dante Alighieri, patron of the Templars."

Once this is pronounced, he is told by the presiding Commander:

"Be then a Knight and remember that the miscreants and infidels are the only enemies, and that you must forgive all those who harm you and avenge only the offenses against the idea: be then illuminated, comforted, and saved by all the light of the Order and go toward God. So be it."

XIX. — The Commander is chosen by the Grand Master to be his advisor, his peer, and his aide; he takes an oath upon the Gospel of Saint John, of eternal activity of light:

"I swear to the Grand Master of the Order the fidelity that one swears to