Description
The secret Orders have their lines of descent, their connections. And behind every Order is another, some half-seen shadows in the mists of history, some well-attested, the works of their initiates known.
Their names have a resonance:
The Ancient and Mystical Order of the Rosy Cross
The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
The Order of the Temple of the Orjent
The Order of the Strict Observance
Each has its Degrees and Ceremonies of Initiation, its secret rituals, mysteries and paths to hidden knowledge. And in each there are the dangers. Por knowledge is a two-edged sword that can bring life or death.
And among the Orders, there is one whose Name is known to but a few and whose True Name is utterly hidden, unspoken, known only to the Masters Here is set down the story of a man of our time who knew earthly success and the pleasure of many women, but who tried to pervert the secret Knowledge of that Order to his own ends. Who invoked Powers no man may control.
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