This emblem, Brethren in Truth, must lose all the value that the civilized peoples of fallen monarchies attributed to it and all its past history must be obliterated from your conscience. It should appear in a new light, one of an equitable, loyal and peaceful freedom.
It should come to life like the rising sun, white and golden, promising its disciples no royalty, no incestuous heredity, but fair Equality, perfect Fraternity, and Liberty that is fully conscious of its own worth.
In your eyes, the Lily should also have a deeper, nobler and broader value.
Its triple extremities reveal the triple personality that constitutes the human being, the triple expression of the spirit and the triple expression of the soul. Its three angles, united in a single base, reveal the conscious Unit of the human being in its multiple expressions and, practically speaking, the Unity of the Beings who strive for the realization of the Great Ideal of Regeneration.
Since the decrepit fall of the royal lily, death has abolished arbitrary supremacy and has finally buried the last kings together with their emblem. Today, in the eyes of the Knights of the Lily and the Eagle, the lily of the past can never be reborn.
The sacred new Lily is created on its own and is the relentless adversary of the lily made aberrant by the passions and the incompetence of those who wore it in the past.
This new Lily rises brilliant. Through its dazzling rays, a sacred motto can be seen:
Love, Friendship, Solidarity
This motto is nothing new. What is new is the promise inscribed in its light and engraved on the soul of those who will reveal it.
Marie Rouchine-Dupré
In ages past, on the Roman standard, the Eagle hovered impassive to the slaughter. The Roman and Byzantine kingdoms split in two and so did the Eagle's vigilance.
In later years this emblem, full of Divine Essence, was made the triumphant witness to all the horrors of the abuse of brute force, to vices and passions let loose.
The last to make this sacred Egregor assist his armies in the plains of the Christian world died in exile. He who at present carries this emblem in the valleys of blood and desolation will die and bury with him the stained eagle, the depraved eagle, the imperial eagle.
Just like the royal lily, this eagle will not ever revive again!
The Eagle will recreate itself and its Knights shall wear it and forget the bloodstained history of the eagle made aberrant.
The new Eagle spreads its wings, facing the East. With a steady eye, it awaits the rising of the sun to perceive the immaculate Lily in it.
The ternary sign is marked on the Eagle just as on the Lily. Its wings are a symbol of human duality, whereas its head is a symbol of conscience that animates all rational beings.
As a whole it is the embodiment of the might of Right and of protection through Right.
Its claws hold no sceptre or sword, for in the future this sceptre will be the Right of Man and the sword his Justice to his fellow-persons.
Its protective wings cover the Lily, which is the symbol of Friendship and Love, whereas the Eagle itself is the symbol of Wisdom.
Under the Eagle's protection, the Lily's fertility will give birth to the future happiness of humanity.
Marie Routchine-Dupré
Every Knight who is conscious of his universal mission should develop Love within him to the utmost extent of his conscious psychical potentialities and this Love should be free from all discrimination or partiality.
In order to attain this noble result, a person should create in himself the ideal image of the One who was the very essence of Love, the One who brought Love from the Heavens and made It live in the hearts of Men.
DEA is not what you imagine. She is not the incarnate being who was subject to the lot common to all human beings.
The one you knew as your Venerable Mother is but the nucleus of Universal DEA. DEA is found diffused not only on Earth, not only in the stars, but in inter-astral regions as well.
From first to last, all the persons you meet throughout your daily life bear the name of DEA within them.
If you wrong and injure one of your fellow-persons with negative feelings, you injure DEA directly and your feelings are like a dart from your soul wounding O. V. Mother, even cruelly at times.
Set these words next to those of the Great Initiator of Mankind, the Master of us all, to Christ of Nazareth, when He speaks of the last Judgment, saying:
«I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, sick and in prison and you did not minister to me».
And when Man, full of selfish iniquity protests:
«Master, I never saw You hungry, thirsty sick or in prison".
Christ replies: «As you did it not to one of the least of these, you did it not to me».
This teaching undoubtedly refers to DEA's Universality.
Your maxim should therefore be: «By wronging your fellow-persons with negative feelings, even if in private only, you wrong the Spirit of Universal Love, you injure DEA, O. V. Mother, and lastly, you injure your own self who have partaken of her Essence since your very creation».
Hate, jealousy and envy towards a fellow-person are equivalent to hate, jealousy and envy towards your own self.
You should fear this fatal suicide that has degraded the human race; fear this daily suicide that degrades Man to the point of making him deny his own self.
Negative feelings are as many cutting blades directed against the purity of the divine Essence of which you yourselves are a part.
To feel hate, jealousy or envy towards a fellow-person is similar to feeling hate, jealousy and envy towards your own image reflected in a mirror; it is a spell that penetrates the object attacked by your feelings and fatally returns to you, more vicious, degraded and vile, to annihilate you.
The Son of Man did not say «Love one another» in vain.
This constant exhortation was not - as we like to think - the outcome of weakness of soul and feelings; it was the Universal Conscience addressing the Human Conscience so as to reveal this great and beautiful Truth.
The egotist, who considers himself happy in his self-love, only proves his absolute lack of conscience.
His self-love isolates his soul from the rest of the Universal Soul and all his efforts to retain the equilibrium of his conscience are futile.
Isolated, he fatally dies the double death - that of both body and soul.
He who hates his neighbour is under the spell of his own hate and dies, wounding both Humanity and Universality in DEA.
A noble Knight never dies, for he cannot hate, he cannot envy or be jealous of anyone. He creates the image of UNIVERSAL DEA, adapts it to all living beings around him, treats them with love and so participates in Universal Love, which is the Love of our Vulnerable Mother.
Demetrius Semelas
I shall now speak to you of spiritual personality.
The personality of every conscious being is composed of the sum total of everything he has known, conceived and learnt in his long existence on earth.
To create one's personality is to conceive through one's own faculties all that is abstract but exists inside or outside one's self.
Personality cannot be created through the study of works of others or by imitating and adopting the behaviour or expressions of others.
Imitation only serves to create a false and wavering personality and the adoption of the expressions of others serves to create a personality that can be defined by the term 'alter ego', that is, another I (ego), which consequently ceases to be one's own unique ego in Nature.
Therefore, every Knight should adopt the following principles in order to create his own dissimilar and independent personality.
Just as Nature is recreated in Man through the constant and unique support of its Laws, personality is created through the support of his Will.
In Man, Will should hold the place of a Law.
Just as in Nature Destruction is opposed to Creation, Death to Life, so in the human Intellect, Ignorance is opposed to Knowledge and in life Inaction is opposed to Action.
In order to develop the theory of the creation of personality more fully, I believe that we should proceed by stages, from Nothingness to relative Perfection.
Since the Knight's motto is «To be dissimilar among one's fellow-persons» he can therefore attain the end imposed by Nature and his own destiny.
Dissimilarity is a spiritual virtue of Man, for it deprives him of the possibility of imitating the works and thoughts of others and forces him to a personal effort through which his personality is auto-created.
Stoicism, Indifference and Impassiveness are the first three lessons that will be of service to the effort undertaken.
Stoicism is the acceptance of the destiny imposed on Man by forces beyond his control, without any recrimination or revolt.
Together with Indifference to whatever happens and Impassiveness to what is done, Stoicism creates the first nucleus of human personality.
The second factor in the creation of personality is the affirmation of Will in the multiplicity of human actions.
You, worthy Knights, unite the above principles in your spirit, just as the Lily unites its petals to its stem.
Stoic, dissimilar, indifferent, impassive, students of Nature, you will then be worthy Mandatories to show Men the miracle of Effort and Will.
Demetrius Semelas
 
My child,
why does silence trouble you? Why does silence remind you of darkness?
Initiate, it was in this isolation that I conceived you and gave you the first principles of Wisdom.
As long as the faculty of thought moves your inner Being, silence will be filled with light, just as the void was filled with the Word of God.
Silence will then become speech and your Being will be filled with Wisdom.
Then, my Child, the time will have come. You will put an end to silence forever and open your mouth. In a harmonious, rhythmic and melodious voice, you will speak the words of Wisdom that turn an Initiate into an Initiator.
But before that moment comes, immerse yourself, my Child, in silence, because in it and in its isolation the initiate will be able to become an Initiator.
I fear, Mother, lest I mislead my neighbour; I fear error; I doubt myself.
Do not doubt, my Child, do not fear; doubt and fear will exist within you only if you are in a state of delusion.
Truth, that is born in silence, that gains strength and vivifies your being, will fill you on the day your eyes are opened to It. Just as the chick cracks the egg and emerges into life, you too, my Child in Spirit, will tear the veils of silence and your Word will come forth, giving life and filling the void it meets.
Do not fear silence, my Child, for the first currents of Life and Logic are born in it.
Be strong in silence. To conquer silence means to conquer for ever the one who has always stood between you and me, my child.
This, dear Brethren, was my first meditation after learning that I was called to teach Men the Truth and its Morality.
Meditate on my own meditation and be inspired by it.
Marie Routchine-Dupré
1. In Man, Good is manifested through Goodness. Goodness in Man is always attacked by Measure.
2. The apparent seat of Goodness in Man is the heart. The apparent seat of Measure is the brain.
3. Every manifestation of Goodness in Man is thwarted by the influence of Measure and Calculation.
4. People do Good with Measure. The results of this Goodness are disastrous and Man's Goodness suffers from it.
5. People do Good after Calculation. In so doing, they stifle Goodness in them.
6. People do Good by subjecting it to the limitations of intensity and duration. In so doing, they are so taken up with their calculations that in the end they perceive that instead of doing good they have done evil.
7. Measure and Calculation are the most imperfect constituent parts of human understanding, whereas Goodness allows for no perfectibility; it is perfect in itself.
8. Goodness expressed by a person serves as a means to perfect those around them.
9. Goodness holds a great place in Man's very essence but it is systematically eliminated by the action of Man's imperfect activities.
10. Goodness is the passive virtue in Man. Its manifestation is not the result of activity but of spontaneity.
11. This is the reason why the ego, eternally troubled by the terror of the end, never permits the spontaneity of its Goodness to be carried out. For greater assurance, it accompanies it with and subjects it to the rigours of Measure and Calculation, which always end up stifling it.
12. Yet Goodness is a gift that Man has received from the Supreme Good, from God.
13. Man judges, reasons and calculates with speed and confidence.
14. Since judgment, reason and calculation are imperfect in Man, they have almost always deceived him in his expectations and this is why it is difficult for Man to be good.
Marie Routchine-Dupré
Sovereign Good lies in unity.
Unity can be manifested in three aspects or by three means: the Beautiful, the Good and the True.
All three explain one another. Good is the reality of Beauty.
Ideally, Good is the absolute, the Being in Itself, for only that which is, is Good. It is the Universal Generator - in a word, it is God.
Good is the virtue of the Spirit, for whatever is Spirit and Life is exempt of all blemish; it is the eternal Light that directs the super-human nature of Man and urges him to abandon his animal nature, for animality is evil.
Therefore, if Good is whatever is, Evil is whatever is not. If God is all, the Devil is nothing.
If Good is the Virtue of the Spirit, Evil is the Vice of Matter.
This is the great problem, for the presence of these two extremes explains the fall of the individual that expresses them.
Thanks to the ceaseless assistance of Providence, Man on earth has the possibility to return to the place of splendour out of which he came and, by his efforts to annihilate his material nature and re-conquer, at the price of many sacrifices, the place he should have had in original Eden.
To this end, he must fight precisely the most serious of his vices, that which is the embodiment of Evil. This is the feeling of preservation of material nature.
It is the feeling that makes Man seek to turn his spirit completely away from Good and try to associate it to his lowest nature.
It is the feeling that makes him seek physical satisfactions and the love of the metal (money) with which he can obtain them. It is that which incites Man to get past all others; in short, it is Egotism.
As a definition, I could say that evil is attachment to Matter.
In certain cases, it is called cowardice. When urged by his instinct of self-preservation, Man forsakes his duties.
Suffering is often accused as being an evil. It is the consequence of evil and it is often a remedy to it.
Evil is so low because Good is too high; this explains the sinner's difficulty to be converted.
The Infinite Good and the greatly limited Evil are not antagonistic or dissimilar harmonies - as are the active and the passive, the male and female, which the Science of the Supernatural presents to us.
Their value has no common measure, for he who knows the one is ignorant of the other. The Saint who knows Good does not suspect Evil.
So Man, who is steeped in vice, does not for a moment conceive Good.
This is why the knowledge of Good and Evil has been the science sought by all the fallen ones who felt the Desire of the Divine within them.
Their aspirations raised them high and their animality brought them low.
They managed to realize the Serpent's promise. They became as gods, with the knowledge of Good and Evil, for in Matter they recalled the ancient light, yearned for it and, restraining their corporeity, they forsook it so as to rise towards God.
Marie Routchine-Dupré
Our study, in spite of the connection it may have with questions of a metaphysical nature, is not intended to be and must not be confused with occult works, which are very frequently treated arbitrarily.
For centuries, humanity has been tending towards perfection through the softening of its morals and its intellectual development.
The education adopted for the children of the twentieth century consists of developing the resources of their minds in all the sciences that humanity possesses, except that of self-knowledge.
Yet this is where we should start.
The science of self-knowledge is not unknown in the intellectual archives of human history, but it is in the same state as chemistry was in the Middle Ages.
In other words, every individual, without any systematic study, without any experimental documentation, professed it in works bearing lofty titles.
It is time for a school to be set up to organize a system of experimental and practical scientific work on the science of self-knowledge.
It is through assiduous work that we will be able to revive this science which is so necessary to the individual and collective life of man in the twentieth century.
It is true that modern philosophy and psychology have done much to promote this cause, but these sciences are relegated to the background because they lack a practical purpose.
Self-knowledge is useful for the creation of an independent personality of one's own, so that each individual can take part in the collective life of societies and share responsibility for common actions.
For man to be able to obtain this knowledge of his state, which today only a few people privileged by nature possess, he has a duty to educate himself in this way and to educate others, so that this privilege can become a common asset of humanity.
When children reach the age where they are taught physics, chemistry, natural history, anthropology and the mathematical sciences, it is then that they must be taught the science that will create and affirm, both in their individual and social lives, their own personality.
Marie Routchine-Dupré