Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Henri Birven

 

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[circa 1929]

 

 

So far as the O.T.O. is at all concerned with Freemasonry, it is that the whole of the Knowledge of the 33° of the reduced Rite is incorporated in the first seven degrees of the O.T.O. But the degrees superior to the seventh of the O.T.O. contain a vital magical secret, at which the whole of Masonry of any rite certainly hints, though it is nowhere openly discussed.

 

 

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