Hi, Al ~
Like I said, this was in the 70s and 80s, during
Grady's tenure.
One can only hope that this practice has in fact
been discontinued.
Since there really is no way to be certain, the only
way to be safe is to bring one's own 'Death Cookie'
along when one attends a Mass:
http://tinyurl.com/yl6x5f
Cors in Manu Domine,
~ Khem Caigan
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Al Billings doth schreibble:
>
> 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:
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>> 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:
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>>>
>>> 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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