The truth will set you free.

Unknown to the great crowd, there exists an ancient society of sages whose 
object is the amelioration and spiritual elevation of humankind by means 
of conquering error and aiding  men and  women in their efforts to attain 
the power to recognize Truth. 

To this Sacred Society every wise and spiritually enlightened person belongs 
by right of his or her nature; because they all, even if personally unknown 
to each other, are one in their purpose and object. They all work under the 
guidance of the one Light of Truth. 

This Order has existed in the most remote prehistoric times. It has 
manifested its activity openly in the world and secretly, under different 
names and in various forms. It has caused social and political revolutions. 
It has proved to be humanity's rock of salvation in times of danger and 
misfortune. It has always upheld the banner of freedom against tyranny, 
superstition and oppression in whatever shape they have appeared, whether 
religious, political or social despotism. 

Into this Sacred Society no one can be admitted by another, unless he has 
the power to enter it himself by virtue of his own interior illumination. 
Neither can anyone, once admitted, be expelled unless he should remove 
himself by becoming unfaithful to its principles and forget again the 
truths which have been learned by experience. 

All this is known to every enlightened person. 

But it is known only to a few that there also exists an external, visible 
organization of such men and women. These, having themselves found and 
traveled the path to real self-knowledge, are willing to give to others 
the benefit of their experience and to act as guides to those willing to 
be guided. Those who are already sufficiently spiritually developed to 
enter into conscious communion with the Great Spiritual Brotherhood will 
be taught directly by the Spirit of Wisdom; but those who still need 
external advice and support will find this in the outer vehicle of that 
Inner Society. 

In regard to the spiritual aspect of this secret Order, one of the Brothers 
has written: 

Our community has existed ever since the first day of creation when the 
gods spoke the divine incarnation: "Let there he light!" It will continue 
to exist till the end of time. It is the Society of the Children of light, 
who live in the light and have attained immortality therein. In our school 
we are instructed directly by Divine Wisdom, the Celestial Bride, whose 
will is free and who selects as her disciples those who are devoted to her. 
The mysteries which we are taught embrace everything that can possibly be 
known in regard to God, Nature and Man. Every sage that ever existed in 
the world was graduated at our school; for without Wisdom no man can be wise. 
We all study only one book, the book of Nature, in which the keys to all 
secrets are contained; and we follow the only possible method in studying 
it, that of experience. Our place of meeting is the temple of the Holy 
Spirit pervading the universe; easily to be found by the elect, but 
forever hidden from the eyes of the vulgar. Our secrets cannot be sold 
for money, but we give them free to everyone capable to receive them.
As to the various external vehicles of that Society over the centuries, 
it will be necessary to give a glance at its history, which has been one 
and the same in all times. Whenever that spiritual Society has manifested 
itself on the outward plane and appeared in the world, it consisted at its 
beginning of a few able and enlightened people, forming a nucleus around 
which others were attracted. 

But, invariably, the more such a society grew 
in numbers, the more people became attracted to it who were unable to 
understand or follow its principles. In time, those who joined it to 
gratify their own ambitions or to make the society serve their own ends 
obtained the majority over those that were more pure. Thereupon the 
healthy portion of it retired from visibility and continued its 
benevolent work in secrecy, starting anew. The remaining portion became 
diseased and disrupted, and sooner or later died disgraced and profaned; 
for the Spirit had departed from them. 

This drama has been reenacted innumerable times over uncounted centuries. 
The Great Order which lies behind all genuine mystery schools must, to 
fulfill its purpose, make contact with those parts of humanity which still 
live in darkness, holding open a portal through which the able may pass 
into the Light. Yet in doing so, it exposes itself also to those incapable 
of comprehending what they see and hear. Even today, in our comparatively 
enlightened times, only a few are able to recognize that real power is 
only acquired through service; that wisdom is sterile unless held as a 
lamp to illumine the way for others; and that love is the rapture of 
discovering that one is not separate from, but rather very much a part 
of, another, or others, or all. 

For this reason, the external organization which we represent has resolved 
not to reveal its true name to the vulgar. Furthermore, and for the same 
reason, the names of the members of this order remain unknown, except to 
those who are intimately associated with them in their common work. If it 
is said that in this way our Order will gain few members, we would answer 
that the Order has a spiritual contact with that Inner Sanctuary of the 
Great Work described earlier. Those who are ready and worthy to be admitted 
will be guided to us by means of their intuition; while those who have no 
intuition are not yet ripe. 

It is better to have only a comparatively small 
number of capable members than a great many who are as yet unable to serve. 

From the above it will be clear that the first and most necessary requirement
of an aspirant is to keep silent in regard to all that concerns the Order. 
Not that there is anything within the Order which needs to fear being known 
to the virtuous and good; but it is inappropriate that things which are 
elevated and sacred should be exposed to the gaze of the vulgar and be 
bespattered by them with mud. This would only impede the Order in its work. 
It would also impede the individual aspirant, for those things which any of 
us holds most sacred are those things on which we most naturally remain 
silent; and to speak carelessly. of a cherished thing to those who do not 
value it is to profane that thing for oneself. 

Another necessary requirement of affiliation with our Order is mutual 
confidence between the Order and the aspirant. An aspirant who has no faith 
in the Order cannot be taught or guided by it. There may be instructions 
which appear strange, and for which no explanation can be given to the 
beginner; but when the aspirant has attained a certain state of development, 
all will become clear. However, this necessary confidence will be of little 
service if it lacks endurance. The way of the development of the soul, 
which leads to the awakening of the inner senses, is slow. Without patience 
and fortitude nothing will be accomplished. 

From all this it follows that the next requisite is devotion to one's own 
spiritual ideal of the Highest. This includes the condition of discipline. 
The purpose of the aspirant is to free himself from being dominated by his 
own sensual self. Please understand that there is absolutely nothing 
"unspiritual' about delighting in the world of our physical senses, of 
desire or of enjoyment and use of the material forms of reality. The 
dichotomy between "spiritual" and "sensual" is an artificial contrivance, 
as the wise know from experience. However, in the common man or woman, 
a sense-oriented window on life restricts awareness of those profound 
feelings of joy and pleasure which arise only from communion in the Spirit. 
The human soul must be released from the arbitrary limits within which most 
people encase themselves, so that it may soar freely and discover its genuine 
heritage. The sensory mature must become a specialized tool for the use of 
the central Self, rather than the master of a passive and distracted will. 

For this reason, the aspirant must not submit to the will of this sensory 
nature, but must follow the will of that Supernal Self which he does not 
yet know, but desires to find. What he believes to be his own will is in 
reality only the blinded desire of his limited human nature, cut off at 
this early stage of development from the universal currents of love and 
will which unite all life. By consciously uniting his will with that of 
the Order, and diligently obeying the obligations to which he commits 
himself, he obeys the will of his own central spiritual Truth with which 
the Order is associated for the purpose of aiding him in the conquest 
over himself. 

This conquest by the Supernal Self, and the resultant liberation of it 
from the distractions and misperceptions of the reactive levels of 
personality, is the Victory of the Divine Consciousness in woman 
or man over that within the individual which is earthly and animal. 

As is written in The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus, "Separate 
the earth from the fire, the subtle from the gross, suavely and with 
great sagacity.,. So thou hast the glory of the whole world; 
therefore let all obscurity flee before thee." 

The object of this 
Great Work is a realization of true manhood and womanhood, and the 
attainment of conscious immortality in the perfected realization of 
the highest state of existence. 

We are a motorcycle club of Brothers. We get together and ride, party and enjoy life and liberty and pursue happiness.  Moses SSMC