if the High Priest reverses the Master’s decision within 30 days following notification.
Section 12.03. Authority
The Sentinel of a Pylon exercises complete authority over that Pylon subject to these By-Laws, any policies
of the High Priest concerning Pylons published in the Jeweled Tablets of Set, and approval of the Sponsor
(if the Sentinel is II°).
Section 12.04. Admission/Expulsion
SubSection 12.04.1. Decision
Pylon admissions or expulsions are decided by the Sentinel. Such Pylon admissions or expulsions will
not affect the standing of the individual involved as an Initiate of the Temple of Set. All Pylon
admissions and expulsions must be promptly reported to the Executive Director by the Sentinel.
SubSection 12.04.2. Additional Pylon Memberships
A member of the Temple of Set may belong to a maximum of one Pylon unless the Sentinels of that
Pylon and any proposed additional Pylon(s) agree that additional Pylon membership is acceptable.
Section 12.05. Access to Activities
Only current Initiates of the Temple of Set shall be admitted to Pylon activities, the only exceptions being
that prospective members or member spouses/significant others may be admitted to non-ceremonial-
working meetings and social gatherings by advance permission of the Sentinel.
Section 12.06. Insignia
Pylon insignia may be worn either together with Temple of Set insignia or alone. When worn together with
Temple insignia, the Pylon insignia must not conflict with, displace, or cover it.
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Article 13. The Scroll of Set
Section 13.01. Definition
The electronic and/or physical newsletter of the Temple of Set shall be called The Scroll of Set. Any
reference in these By-Laws to “the Scroll” refers to this newsletter.
Section 13.02. Content
Content of each issue is determined by the Editor. Documents submitted for inclusion by any IV°+ Initiate
will automatically be included providing that they are submitted to the Editor in normal submission format
and prior to the deadline for the desired issue.
Section 13.03. Distribution and Reproduction
The Scroll is distributed to each Setian as a right of current membership. The Scroll may not be shown to
and discussed with non-Initiates of the Temple. III°+ Initiates may authorize limited, selected copies or
extracts of its contents for reasonable purposes, as long as these do not disclose the identities of Setians
without their prior approval.
Section 13.04. Editor
SubSection 13.04.1. Appointment
The High Priest shall appoint the Editor. Such an appointment must be approved in writing by at
least five voting Councillors to the Chairman, the High Priest, and the Executive Director.
SubSection 13.04.2. Term of Office
The Editor shall serve without fixed term until resignation or removal from office. He may resign
from office by notifying both the Chairman of the Council and the Executive Director in writing.
SubSection 13.04.3. Removal
The Chairman of the Council or the High Priest may remove the Editor from office if he feels that
there is just cause for doing so. Such a decision must be approved in writing by at least six voting
Councillors to the Chairman, the High Priest, and the Executive Director.
SubSection 13.04.4. Finance
The Editor may serve with or without compensation, as determined by the Chairman of the Council.
He shall be reimbursed for reasonable expenses of his office as determined by the Executive Director.
Article 14. The Jeweled Tablets of Set
Section 14.01. Definition
Official reference documents of the Temple of Set will normally be included in The Jeweled Tablets of Set,
an electronic and/or physical publication divided into six component collections:
SubSection 14.01.1. The Crystal Tablet of Set
The Crystal Tablet of Set includes papers generally relevant to all Initiates of the Temple of Set and
particularly pertinent to Setians I°. The Crystal Tablet is distributed to each new Setian upon
affiliation as part of the admissions packet, and updates are available to all Setians at cost. It will be
Edited by the Executive Director. The Crystal Tablet may be shown to and discussed with non-
Initiates of the Temple, and III°+ Initiates may authorize limited, selected copies or extracts of its
contents for reasonable purposes.
SubSection 14.01.2. The Ruby Tablet of Set
The Ruby Tablet of Set includes papers generally relevant to all II°+ Initiates of the Temple of Set. It
will be Edited by a III°+ Initiate. Access to the Ruby Tablet is restricted to II°+ Initiates, and will be
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available to all II°+ Initiates at cost. III°+ Initiates may authorize limited, selected copies or extracts
of its contents for reasonable purposes.
SubSection 14.01.3. The Onyx Tablet of Set
The Onyx Tablet of Set includes papers generally relevant to all Initiates of the Priesthood of Set and
particularly pertinent to the Priesthood of Set III°. It will be Edited by the High Priest. Access to the
Onyx Tablet is restricted to III°+ Initiates. The Onyx Tablet is distributed to each new Priest upon
Recognition, and updates are available to all Priests at cost.
SubSection 14.01.4. The Sapphire Tablet of Set
The Sapphire Tablet of Set includes papers generally relevant to all Masters of the Temple of Set IV°.
It will be Edited by a IV°+ Initiate. Access to the Sapphire Tablet is restricted to IV°+ Initiates, and
will be available to all IV°+ Initiates at cost.
SubSection 14.01.5. The Amethyst Tablet of Set
The Amethyst Tablet of Set includes papers generally relevant to the Work of the V°. It will be Edited
by a IV°+ Initiate. Access to the Amethyst Tablet is restricted to IV°+ Initiates, and will be available to
all IV°+ Initiates at cost.
SubSection 14.01.6. The Topaz Tablet of Set
The Topaz Tablet of Set includes papers generally relevant to the Work of the VI°. It will be Edited by
a IV°+ Initiate. Access to the Topaz Tablet is restricted to IV°+ Initiates, and will be available to all
IV°+ Initiates at cost.
Section 14.02. Structure
Each of the Jeweled Tablets shall be divided into two volumes: I-Standing Documents and II-Varying
Documents.
SubSection 14.02.1. I-Standing Documents
I-Standing Documents consists of documents defining the Temple of Set’s essential design and core
philosophy. As such they cannot be included or removed from a Tablet, or modified within a Tablet,
by the Editor or any other single official. Such inclusion/removal/modification can be proposed to the
Chairman of the Council of Nine by any III°+ Initiate for the Crystal/Ruby/ Onyx Tablets, and by any
IV°+ Initiate for the Sapphire/Amethyst/Topaz Tablets, which proposal must be approved in writing
by at least six voting members of the Council, such approval to be communicated to the Chairman, the
High Priest, and the Executive Director by those Council members individually.
SubSection 14.02.2. II-Varying Documents
II-Varying Documents consists of documents, other than Standing Documents, determined by the
Editor to be appropriate for inclusion in the Tablet. Varying Documents may be recommended by any
Initiate with access to the Tablet in question. Varying Documents recommended by any IV°+ Initiate
will automatically be included in the Tablet as long as that Initiate remains an active member of the
Temple of Set.
Section 14.03. Tablet Editors [other than Crystal and Onyx]
SubSection 14.03.1. Appointment
The High Priest shall appoint the Editor. Such an appointment must be approved in writing by at
least five voting Councillors to the Chairman, the High Priest, and the Executive Director.
SubSection 14.03.2. Term of Office
The Editor shall serve without fixed term until resignation or removal from office. He may resign
from office by notifying both the Chairman of the Council and the Executive Director in writing.
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SubSection 14.03.3. Removal
The Chairman of the Council or the High Priest may remove the Editor from office if he feels that
there is just cause for doing so. Such a decision must be approved in writing by at least six voting
Councillors to the Chairman, the High Priest, and the Executive Director.
SubSection 14.03.4. Finance
The Editor may serve with or without compensation, as determined by the Chairman of the Council.
He shall be reimbursed for reasonable expenses of his office as determined by the Executive Director.
Article 15. Amendments to By-Laws
Section 15.01. Effect
These By-Laws shall become effective immediately upon their adoption. Amendments to these By-Laws
shall become effective immediately upon their adoption unless the members in adopting them provide that
they are to become effective at a later date.
Section 15.02. Amendment Vote Requirement
Subject to any provisions of law applicable to the amendment of By-Laws of nonprofit corporations, these
By-Laws, or any other of them, may be altered, amended, or repealed and new By-Laws adopted by a three-
quarters majority vote of all III°+ Initiates of the Temple of Set.
Section 15.03. Amendment Vote Supervision
A vote to affect these By-Laws in accordance with Section 15.02 shall be jointly supervised by the High
Priest, the Chairman of the Council, and the Executive Director.
Section 15.04. Amendment Initiative
The High Priest may call for a vote to affect these By-Laws in accordance with Section 15.02 at his
discretion. A vote must be called for upon receipt by the Executive Director of a petition signed by one-third
of the III°+ Initiates of the Temple of Set. Upon receipt of such a petition, the Temple of Set shall
immediately cease all programs and activities involving the issue(s) in question until the vote has been
conducted, announced, and implemented.
Section 15.05. Recording
The original or a copy of these By-Laws as amended or otherwise altered to date, certified by the Executive
Director, as corporate secretary, shall be recorded and kept in the Onyx Tablet of Set.
Article 16. Interpretation of By-Laws
Section 16.01. Interpretation
Interpretation of the provisions of these By-Laws, where they are not clearly explicit, shall be by the High
Priest. The Chairman of the Council may overrule such an interpretation. An overrule decision must be
approved in writing by at least four other voting members of the Council to the High Priest, the Chairman,
and the Executive Director.
Section 16.02. Degree Identification
As used in these By-Laws, the notation “+” following an initiatory degree means “this or any higher degree”.
Section 16.03. Generic Gender Reference
All degrees of membership and all offices within the Priesthood and Temple of Set may be held by persons
of either sex. Use of masculine nouns/pronouns in these By-Laws is for simplicity only.
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Section 16.04. Written Notice
Any “written notice” referred to in these By-Laws may be given in person, sent by postal mail, by
commercial courier, facsimile, electronic mail, or other commonly-used methods of written/typed
communication. It is always the responsibility of the sender to ensure that the written notice was received
by the recipients, especially when using methods, like electronic mail, which are not highly reliable.
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A8: Letter, William F. Murrary to M.A. Aquino
17 de June, X
Dear Magister Aquino, Counselor & Friend;
Salut!
Before getting to the meat of the matter, let me quote to you a portion of a letter I am currently drafting to Dr.
LaVey. I want you to he aware of something that has hit me with megaton force. “... therefore I wish to inform you of
my intention to withdraw from ‘The Church of Satan, Inc.’ and return to The Church of Satan which has been in
existence for many thousands of years.” To quote a recent bandied about quote, “ ’Nuff said?”!
O.K., here we go. The phone has been coming off the hook here since Friday, 13 Jun. Of course I was in Elko
over the weekend, but when I returned Sunday morn, dear mother had a note pad of many pages with notes
regarding who called and why. Sandy, the mailperson is now delivering by the bag. No joke!
For some reason I have become in the eyes of many, a sort of Vicar-General of the Caldron, or to put it in my
own elegant way, a wailing wall for odds and sods from all over the lot. Alas (as the case may be), I am reaping seeds
of my own sowing. For the past six years I have; answered every letter, returned every phone call, gone out of my
way for every bloke who needed a visit, handed out advice and admonishments (when called for) --because, like
Popeye the Sailor, “I yam-what-I-yam!” Now, whether I an the recipient many times over of that famed Central
Grotto decoration, “The Short End of the Stick” w/Splinter Cluster is an academic question. Though I must say that
the letter I received from the group a la nom de plume “John Kincaid” re the nebulous nature of my Regional
Agencyship was a monument of misinformation and downright fucking lies. All of this, of course, is stacked up in
the useless lumber pile of the past. Having served its purpose, it is discarded.
Warlock Mark Harris and his lovely wife, Janice (Now there is a marriage made in Hell!) are currently visitors
to Carpathia. Mother Keller will he up here some time today. It is raining, the hot spell breaking, and for three days
a great black crow or magpie has been circling the block and the house. Good signs, I would say.
Three turgid paragraphs of preamble to open this letter. Not had, Bill, not had at all. Oh, well, it could have been
worse. I can imagine your in-basket is overflowing, so is mine. So in some sort of order, mixing phone calls and
letters but trying to keep them in sequence to the order of your “informational packet” which I hope will he a handy
reference for you, and away we go;
Bits and Pieces
“Bill, if Dr. LaVey needs some money, why couldn't he sell off some of that is that is listed in that book that
Wolfe wrote?”
“If it is money, I’ll contribute something.”
“And in this case my II° doesn’t mean a fucking thing!”
“Who the hell does he think he is, the Pope? Shit, my dad bought all his degrees in the K.C. Is this what the
Church of Satan is now?”
“I cried all night!”
“I am stronger, because of this, than I have ever been before.”
“I think it is a joke.”
“Is this what he meant when he talked about whoopie-cushions?”
“I’ve been calling Central Grotto all day. All I get is that record
ing.”
“Does Magister Aquino really mean that I can write to him?”
“I saw this coming a year ago.”
“When my wife and I saw Dr. LaVey at Central the night of the 23rd, we were really surprised. He seemed so
tired. Except for some girl with the name of Hansen, there seemed to be no one else there. I felt that he just wanted
some friendly people to talk to -and listen to. He made me feel like he was my long-lost father. He was so gentle. It
was all I could do to keep from calling him ‘Tony’. God damn it, he seemed so tired.”
“When we got hack to the car, I turned to (husband) and said, ‘Oh, my god, he seemed so alone. I wanted to hold
him in my arms.’”
“When we were driving back over the bridge, suddenly we both turned to each and in almost the same voice
said, ‘Was that Dr. LaVey?’.”
“Hey, Bill, is this some sort of backstairs revolution?”
“Is it true, can anyone ‘lift the Mandate’?”
“Poor Mr. (sic) LaVey, I am so embarrassed for him.” [Note: Seven other people expressed embarrassment. One
of our Canadian members expressed it with such compassion: “I feel as though a very old and dear friend had
unintentionally farted at the vicarage tea.”]
“What do I do now? Join the Hell’s Angels?”
“I see the hand of Diane LaVey in all this.” [Now that is an interesting thought.]
“Hey, is what happened down in Santa Cruz connected with all of this?”
“I saw all this shit coming when West II went down the tubes last year.”
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“Who does he think he is - Richard Nixon?”
So far, that is just a brief sample of what has been coming in. I think I can see a trend starting to develop. Agree?
Perhaps I am wrong. It is really too soon to tell.
Now this is what I have been doing. In my response to all telephone calls and in my answers to letters, I have
been saying this: “Please do not react without chewing this over for a while. An emotional reaction is not what
anyone needs right now. Besides, when you react emotionally, there is always the post operation of removing hoof
from mouth! If nothing else, we are realistic and logical [or at least try to be]. Let’s base our reaction on this little
story: When modern China opened its doors to western newsmen again, the then-current editor of the Singapore
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