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the mark is perceived on the astral plane. The subsequent tattoo that is recommended is
unnecessary—for those that can observe will see.
The oto third point is a travesty and has no sense of the secular communion of the
18 th degree.
3/10 if that.
JAC PARTIT
The crimson flame
There is another aspect of the original 18° ritual that has always fascinated me—the
use of a strontium salt dissolved in spirit in the chalice, which when ignited produces a
crimson flame, strontium being the only element to produce such a vivid crimson flame,
much as copper produces a green flame and sodium an orange flame. This was mentioned
by H T F Rhodes, information he appeared to have obtained from Walton Hannah’s
Darkness Visible, a 1951 exposé of freemasonry (which was countered in 1952 by a
delightfully vitriolic little book called Light Invisible written by a freemason spitting
blood under the pseudonym of “Vindex”, who said Mr Hannah should be “horsewhipped”).
I asked Jac Partit about the use of strontium:
I have just checked Walton Hannah and it is he who talks about the use of strontium in
the fire ignited in the third point—when the word is returned to the celestial realm. We
no longer use strontium in the UK. Hannah’s comments on the degree display an
astonishing ignorance of mystical Christianity which I suppose I should have expected.
More than happy to comment further when you have received some response [from
John Day]—I suspect that many oto initiates are simply unaware of how poor an
interpretation it is and how much is unchanged from the 18 th degree.
JB
John Day’s response to Partit
In my self-appointed role as advocate for the opposition, I thought it best to begin with
first principles, and thus my initial considerations have centred on the following statement
made by Jac Partit:
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