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Agreeable to appointment and the arrangements to be made it was

necessary for the Hierophant and the Holy men of the Temple to

assemble at an early hour, although the Transfer was not to take

place until midnight.

Much preparation was necessary as a most momentous ceremony was

to be performed this night; one that rarely ever was performed,

owing to the fact that few of the Temple Priests were initiated

into these sacred Magical Rites. They were too Sacred and Holy to

be imparted to many, too dangerous for possible failures, too

infinite in responsibilities accompanying such undertakings. Only

those where the mind, soul and spirit, blended as one in their

organism, were ever entrusted with the interior knowledge of the

Sacred Adytum--The Holy of Holies.