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 Göttingen, Germany. The author of more than 24 books, including Lords of the Left-Hand Path and Original Magic, he lives near Smithville, Texas.

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Foreword by Frater U∴D∴

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 Tränker (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