The Secret Rituals of the O.T.O.
(5th step.) M.W.S.: Who is your mother? P.: Natura. (6th step.) M.W.S.: Who is your teacher? P.: Ratio. (7th step.) M.W.S.: Then who are thou? P.: IAO. (All cry IAO loudly.) M.W.S.: Give me the initials of the last 4 words. P.: I.N.R.I. M.W.S.: Sir Knight (Noble Dame) You have indeed by the air of Truth, Silence, and Love, succeeded in finding the Lost Word. To order, Very Excellent and Perfect Princes! Let us analyse the Word! (All stand to order, swords above head, lip in finger and thumb of left hand. The 3 officers form the descending triangle above Postulant.) M.W.S.: I. H.P.: N. G.M.: R. All: I. M.W.S.: Yod.
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