One would assume that this was before the AIDS epidemic was in full
swing. As far as I know, the only way people have sacraments of that
sort is if they bring their own to a mass.
Khem Caigan wrote:
> Hi, Al ~
>
>
> First, let me set your doubts at rest. I know
> for a fact that this was the case in *all* of
> the Gnostic Catholic Masses that I attended at
> the Magickal Childe and at the OTO fratcamp in
> Brooklyn during Grady's tenure.
>
> It was even a running joke, for some.
>
> And the practice also carried over to some of the
> Wiccan/OTO hybrids, with the HPs and HP providing
> the juice for the Cakes served up at the Sabbats.
>
> Again, with participants uninformed.
>
> Nice to know that the OTO continues to clean up
> its act.
>
> Do they still employ my technique for evaporating
> off the greater portion of the water in red wine
> to produce the lees, I wonder?
>
> I suppose I will have to ask Bill Breeze the next
> time we talk.
>
> Cors in Manu Domine,
>
>
> ~ Khem Caigan
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>
> Al Billings doth schreibble:
>>
>> Khem, that hasn't happened in probably 20 or more years and
>> I doubt anyone was ever uninformed.
>>
>> Khem Caigan wrote:
>>
>>> Caroline Tully doth schreibble:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Other examples of things the OTO does would be the Rites of Eleusis
>>>> (which, as a Classics major, I can say have nothing to do with the
>>>> ancient Greek Eleusinian Mysteries).
>>>> But it gives you an idea of the respectable types of things OTO
>>>> generally does.
>>>> http://oto93.com/eleusis.html
>>>
>>>
>>> Perhaps there has been some sort of fundamental
>>> change with regard to the protocols of the Gnostic
>>> Mass, but I still take issue with the established
>>> practice of feeding menstrual blood and sperm to
>>> uninformed attendees by way of the 'Cakes of Light'.
>>>
>>> Cors in Manu Domine,
>>>
>>>
>>> ~ Khem Caigan
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