The teachings of the FS are held together by an overriding spiritual conception. This is the 'mythology' of Saturn based upon astrological teachings and the glacial cosmology of Hanns Horbiger (1860-1931), in which fire meets ice, moons cr…
The teachings of the FS are held together by an overriding spiritual conception. This is the 'mythology' of Saturn based upon astrological teachings and the glacial cosmology of Hanns Horbiger (1860-1931), in which fire meets ice, moons crash down onto the planets, and the cosmos exists as an eternal battle of opposites. At the beginning of time, darkness was a more powerful primordial element, but the light was contained within it. In order for the light to begin to glow, a Logos was required. In our planetary system it was the Logos of the sun (Chrestos) that brought light and, along with it, life. But the great angel Lucifer, who originally sat at the side of God, grabbed the torch of light and as Light-bringer (Lucifer), and thus the bearer of divine secrets, adjourned to the farthest reaches of the spheres. His planetary form is therefore Saturn, which in ancient cosmology lies farthest from the sun. Lucifer represents Saturn's 'higher octaves': 'The sun is the centre out of which radiates the entire secret of life. Saturn is the periphery, the border of time and space' (Protagoras 1962). Saturn is the place where the last light passes over into darkness. He is therefore considered the Guardian of the Threshold who opens the door to trasncendence and salvation, and who guards the realm of the dead, but definitely no the realm of 'Evil.' Saturn is also the great judge with swords and scales, entrusted with weights, measures and numbers.
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Among human beings, the cult of Saturn corresponds to a path of solitude, maturity, asceticism, difficulties and suffering — for it is only suffering that makes one mature and noble. But Saturn also means restraint and the throwing off of ballast (above all that of previous religious beliefs, as Grosche emphasizes) . . . The adept of Saturn is further distinguished by austerity, concentration skills, critical faculties, and Uranian abilities of intuition (Uranus is considered the astrological ruler of the 'Age of Aquarius'). Secrecy and independence are likewise key words. Human openness is only possible within the chain of the brothers.
—Hans Thomas Hakl, The Magical Order of the Fraternitas Saturni, Moynihan trans., pgs. 45-6
