Wish list

From Sekhet-Maat Lodge

This is a brief description of some material things that we would really like to improve the Lodge with. If you are interested in helping to facilitate any of the following, make a contribution or go out and make a purchase for the Lodge, contact us.

Contents 1 Library 2 Furniture / Equipment 3 Exterior 4 Facilities 5 Past wish list items

Library

Books

• The Progradior Correspondence: Letters by Aleister Crowley, C. S. Jones, & Others. Keith Richmond, ed.
• The Veritable Key of Solomon by Skinner and Rankine
• The Origins of Freemasonry: Scotland's Century, 1590 to 1710 by David Stevenson
• Revolutionary Brotherhood: Freemasonry and the Transformation of the American Social Order, 1730-1840 by Steven C. Bullock
• Playing Indian by Philip J Deloria
• Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D Putnam
• The Genesis of Secrecy: On the Interpretation of Narrative (Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) by Frank Kermode
• Jesus Christ, Sun of God: Ancient Cosmology and Early Christian Symbolism by David Fideler.

Furniture / Equipment

Kitchen

• Quality knives (Henckels, Wusthof-Trident, or Chicago)
  • We have obtained two of these, but could use a few more.
  • Sharpening steel
• Install a pot rack and acquire better cookware
• Pan rack
• Cake Pans
• Cheese Knives
• Cool down rack
• Start a kitchen journal to record history, humor and documented feast episodes.

Temple

• Misc. initiatory equipment and furniture upgrades (see Lodge Master for details)
• "Draft Dog" or similar item for door to outside (keeps the drafts out and warm air in)
• New (larger) pillars.
• Valance for veils (to hide the wires)

Sacristy

• Taller clothes rack so that tall robes don’t drag on the floor
• New shelving and other storage mechanisms to accommodate folding chairs, lances, swords, artwork, etc.
• Iron and Ironing board

Entryway / Classroom

• Replacement for the damaged Persian rug in the entryway
• Replacement welcome mat
• Obtain hooks to hang coats

Exterior

• paint the exterior as shown here
• outdoor ashtray

Facilities

• with the permission of the landlord:
  • tiling the kitchen and bathroom floors
  • upgrading our light fixtures and electrical system for art shows and dramatic ritual
  • improving the ventilation and acquiring an air conditioner
• remodel closet and storage area to be more suited for changing clothes, doing makeup, and preparing for ritual
• a display for t-shirts, books, and other items for sale

Past wish list items

• new small altar and font for the Mass (to spec)
• Pass-through installation
• replace frame currently supporting mass veils with some other, more stable system
• paint the temple room black & red
• New space heater that is energy saving and safer
• new stove that works better
• window treatments for the temple
• digital thermostat, for automatically turning off heater
• Book of Abramelin: A New Translation by Abraham Von Worms, Georg Dehn (editor and translator)
• microwave oven and a place to put it
• KitchenAid mixer
• Western Esotericism and Rituals of Initiation (Suny Series in Western Esoteric Traditions) by Henrik Bogdan
• The Path of Alchemy: Energetic Healing and the World of Natural Magic by Mark Stavish
• Magia Sexualis by Hugh Urban
• The Gods of Generation: A History of Phallic Cults Among Ancients and Moderns by Jacques-Antoine Dulaure
• Opus Mago-Cabbalisticum et Theosophicum by Georg Von Welling, Joseph G. McVeigh (translator)
• Xul Solar: Visiones y Revelaciones by Patricia M. Artundo
• Voudon Gnostic Workbook Expanded Edition by Michael Bertiaux
• The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon
• Altar cloth for water font
• Guest Book
• Good corkscrew (Waiter style)
• upgrades of sound and video projection systems
• BLACK hand towels (also used by the negative child during Mass)
• Funnels
• Culinary Scissors
  • Wall-mount magnetic knife holder
• Small oil bottle (plastic with nozzle)
• New dish/hand towels
• Coffee container (For beans)