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The Fraternitas Saturni Stephen E. Flowers, Ph.D.

The Fraternitas Saturni By Stephen E. Flowers, Ph.D.

The Fraternitas Saturni by Stephen E. Flowers, Ph.D.

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The most in-depth work in English on the most influential secret magic group of 20th-century Germany, the Fraternitas Saturni.

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The Fraternitas Saturni: History, Doctrine, and Rituals of the Magical Order of the Brotherhood of Saturn by Stephen E. Flowers, Ph.D.

The most in-depth work in English on the most influential secret magic group of 20th-century Germany, the Fraternitas Saturni, or Brotherhood of Saturn.

Explores the history of the Order from its founding the late 1960s

Transcribes many rituals and practices in such detail that readers will be able to undertake their own experiential work

Examines the Orders teachings on cosmology, the Kabbalah, the Saturnian Sacraments, electrical magic, and sexual mysticism--the Yoga of the Dark Light

Includes biographies of prominent members, including founder Gregor A. Gregorius, Karl Spiesberger (Frater Eratus), and Albin Grau (Master Pacitius)

The most influential magical group in Germany during the 20th century, the Fraternitas Saturni, or Brotherhood of Saturn, is still the most active and important magical society in Germany today. But from its formal beginnings in 1926 in Weimar Berlin until around 1970 it was almost totally secret. Most of what is known about the Order in the English-speaking world is fragmentary and focuses exclusively on the sensational sex-magic practices and Luciferian tendencies of this magical lodge.

Presenting the most in-depth work in English on the Fraternitas Saturni, Stephen Flowers examines the history of the Order from the mid-1920s to the late 1960s when the Order was fundamentally reformed. He details their path of initiation, secret doctrines, ritual practices, and magical formulas and offers biographies of the Orders most prominent members, including founder Gregor A. Gregorius, Karl Spiesberger (Frater Eratus), Albin Grau (Master Pacitius), and Franz Saettler (Dr. Musallam).

The Fraternitas Saturni Reviews

Stephen Flowers lets the cat out of the bag on the subject of the Fraternitas Saturni and takes us into the richly Faustian world of Germanic occultism from which the order emerged, created out of a heady brew of Freemasonry, astrology, Golden Dawn magic, Crowleys Thelema, and much more. With its detailed descriptions of the orders rituals and practices, this book is an eye-opener with a vengeance. * Christopher McIntosh, Ph.D., author of Eliphas Levi and the French Occult Revival *
The Western esoteric tradition, from which this books subject emerges, has now gained acceptance as a branch of the Western canon worthy of scholarly inquiry and as a discipline deserving of its seat in the academy. Flowers casts light on one of the 20th centurys most secretive, intriguing (and misunderstood) occult orders, the Fraternitas Saturni. This is a fascinating and highly readable study of the Orders tantric, astrosophical, and Nietzchean doctrines; their Gnostic sexual cosmologies and practices; their quasi-masonic structure; the Orders enigmatic and innovative figures such as FS Grand Master Gregor A. Gregorius; and the influence of Aleister Crowley, Thelema, and the Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.) on the Brotherhood. * Stephen J. King (Shiva X), Grand Master, Ordo Templi Orientis *
Germanys contribution to the Western magical tradition reaches back, in modern form, to the medieval Grail myths, the founding of the original Rosicrucian Order and its many later derivatives, the quasi-masonic operations of the Bavarian Illuminati, Germanys legendary influence on the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and, of course, its role in the founding and early development of the Ordo Templi Orientis. The Fraternitas Saturni Order is heir to all of these, and Stephen Flowers, Ph.D., has devoted decades to expanding and deepening the research that led to his first groundbreaking book on the Order. This fourth revised and enlarged edition may at last represent the completion of that herculean task as it more deeply explores and communicates the Orders mysteries to a yet wider audience. Critically, Flowers elucidates at length on the primary characteristic that makes the Fraternitas Saturni so unique--its dual emphasis on social lodge work and group ritual, balanced by its curriculum of disciplined individual practices that must be accomplished in silence by each member. * James Wasserman, author of The Mystery Traditions *
"This is recommended reading for all interested in secret fraternities." * Paul Young, New Dawn Magazine *

About Stephen E. Flowers, Ph.D.

Stephen E. Flowers, Ph.D., received his doctorate in Germanic languages and medieval studies from the University of Texas at Austin and studied the history of occultism at the University of Gottingen, Germany. The author of more than 24 books, including Lords of the Left-Hand Path and Original Magic, he lives near Smithville, Texas.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations

Foreword by Frater UD

Preface to the Fourth Edition

Introduction
Seeking the Light in Darkness

Chapter 1
A History of the Fraternitas Saturni
Distant Roots
Rebirth
The FOGC .: 99 :.
The Ordo Templi Orientis and Aleister Crowley
Interregnum
Renewal
Discords and Harmonies

Chapter 2
Doctrines of the Fraternitas Saturni
Lux e Tenebris Lucet et Luceat
Saturn Gnosis
The Saturnian Archetype
Aim of the Fraternitas Saturni--The Lodge Concept
The Way of Saturn
Astral Gnosis
Astrosophy
Aeonic Cosmosophy: The Dark Side of the Aquarian Age
The Luciferian Principle
The Yoga of the Dark Light: Fraternitas Saturni Sexual Mysticism Nietzschean Thelemism

Chapter 3
Organizaion of the Fraternitas Saturni
The Initiatory Path
The Thirty-Three Degrees and Their Work

Chapter 4
Magical Work
Magical Training
Lodge Rituals
The Saturnian Liturgy
The Saturnian Sacraments
Lodge Rites
A Note on Electrical Magic
Secret Sex-Magical Practices of the Fraternitas Saturni
Experimental and Magical use of the Pendulum
Astrology and Sex Magic

APPENDICES

Appendix A Ritual Missae Fraternitas Saturni

Appendix B Ritual Missae for the Grand and Festival Lodge

Appendix C Ritual Missae for the Master Lodge of the Fraternitas Saturni
Appendix D Gradus Pentalphae Appendix E Statement of Relations between Myself, Aleister Crowley, and Heinrich Tranker (1925)

Appendix F The Constitution of the Fraternitas Saturni

Appendix G Letter from Gregor A. Gregorius to Aleister Crowley (1926)
Appendix H Letter from Gregor A. Gregorius to Aleister Crowley (1927)
Appendix I An Initiation Ritual of the FOGC .: 99 :.

Appendix J The Rosicrucians and the Bavarian Illuminati

Appendix K An Outline of Adonism

Appendix L Instructions Appended to Liber I
by Master Pacitius

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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NGR9781620557211
9781620557211
1620557215
The Fraternitas Saturni: History, Doctrine, and Rituals of the Magical Order of the Brotherhood of Saturn by Stephen E. Flowers, Ph.D.
Stephen E. Flowers, Ph.D.
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Inner Traditions Bear and Company
2018-07-26
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