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The Secret Rituals of the O.T.O.
S.: (Gives Pass-grip.) What is this?
C.: The Pass-grip, leading from the Second to the Third degree.
S.: What does it demand?
C.: A Pass-word.
S.: Give me that Pass-word.
C.: Agape.
S.: What is its import?
C.: Love.
S.: Pass, Agape.
(E. takes C. to centre.)
S.: Another yet more serious obligation will now be demanded of you; are you willing to take it?
C.: I am.
S.: Officers, do your duty.
(C. is led about the camp, widdershins, his face covered with his own robe, while all chant. O Lord
Deliver me, etc.33
S.: The Candidate is ready to take the Great Oath?
W.: (Repeats very solemnly, with strong affirmative.)
E.: (Repeats yet more mournfully, affirmative.)
S.: You will place both hands on the Book of the Law, while the disk is applied to your navel.
Repeat your name at length, and say after me: I, ..., in the presence of the Powers of Death visible and
invisible, and of this Secret place of Masters in the Camp of Magicians, do hereby and hereon most
solemnly promise and swear:
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