THE F O G
C LODGE
The Freemasonic Order of the Golden Centurium
By Dr. Adolf
Hemberger
A purely magical-mystical loge was founded
in 1840 in Munich by some German rich industrialists and well situated
citizens. This lodge existed until 1933. At all times only 99 persons of the
male gender could belong to this esoteric working-group or secret lodge. This
lodge basically never appeared in the open.
This lodge had nothing to do with regular
Freemasonry. They didn’t have any actual degrees, ranks and levels of
realisation. The advancement to apprentice, journeyman and master was only of
symbolic character. All secrets were given during the initiation. The other
“grades” were not ranks, but only temple-stones which were provided with a
number and name. Their intention was demonological oriented i.e. they tried, in
alliance with allegedly existing negative spiritual forces to obtain personal
advantages, influence, power and money for their members. For this reason they
placed themselves under mars-daimon “Barzabel”, the old bull-god Astaroth,
Belial and Asmodi as lodge-daimon who took place number 100 in the lodge.
Similar to the Russian Roulette (also practised
by the order of assassins which also existed at the turn of the century (19th
to the 20th century) in Central Europe), every five years (if at
that point of time no other lodge member had died) a balloting for ”death
candidate” took place on the evening (June 23rd) before John’s day. This
death candidate served as “lodge-sacrifice” for the services of the
transcendental powers in which the lodge believed. The dead-candidate was
determined by the draw of a lot or a ballot. In the later case there were 98
white balls and 1 black ball in the ballot box. Whoever drew the dead-lot
became, according to the constitution of the order, property of the supposed
lodge daimon, i.e. he had to consume deadly poison during the lodge meeting.
The Grandmaster of this organisation that
was part of a truly “macabre” and supersaturated society had the authority to
order the balloting three times if “fate” demanded him draw the black ball. The
fortune and capital of the “sacrificed” member came into the treasury of the
lodge. The lodge-seat, lodge-number and the serving imagospurius[1]
were assigned to the new member who was to be initiated on the same day.
Allegedly the lodge mastered in theory and practice almost all black-magical
techniques. Every member was bound to the lodge-daimon by oaths, blood-rituals
and mental-pacts. The most important rituals were taken from the works of
ceremonial magic (see “Heptameron”, Waite: Ceremonial Magic,
Stroessner-Bachhausen: “Freimaurerei und Magie” etc.). Also combat-telepathy and the ray-apparatus
Tepaphone were used. (See Fraternitas Saturni and the Order of the Mentalic
Builders).
Sources: Quintscher: “Denu val gumas”
Bardon: “Frabato"
Information about this lodge were given by Gregor A.
Gregorius from mouth to ear to Master Ptahhotep of the Fraternitas Saturni,
Wolther, Guido (Master Daniel), 33rd degree of the Fraternitas
Saturni and it Grandmaster for a while, was also member do the Droit-Humain
order; descriptions of the rituals, techniques and procedures of the FOGC
lodge.
Minutes of lodge-meetings (not available to the
public)