On Thursday December 18th, 2014 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will

present a discussion on the Mission Statement of the Church of the Hermetic

Sciences and the Ordo Templi Astartes. This is one of the topics that was

discussed at our last Board of Director's Meeting as especially important

with our membership increasing and new lodges begin opening around the

country. In the magical community we are known as the folks that know how to

make ritual magick work, but that in itself is not enough of a reason for

people to join us unless they simply want to learn our techniques and

methods to use for their own purposes. Frankly, that is not what we are here

for and we are not teaching magick so that it can be misused. We consider

magick to be a system of mental and spiritual development that leads to what

we refer to as enlightenment -- which we define as a close personal

relationship with God. We follow a pattern of hermetic mytho-philosophy born

in Alexandria in the first century and perfected by the Renaissance

neo-platonic/hermetic magi in 14th-15th-16th century Europe culminating in

the Rosicrucian tradition. We combine paganism, Qabalah, astrology and

alchemy in line with Jungian psychology in a neo-romantic Quest for the Holy

Grail based on a linage of eternal goddesses and dying gods from the time of

Melchizedek to the beginnings of Christianity. So, if you have wondered just

why we do what we do and where we are going with it, tune in and be

enlightened.

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