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This study is not an introduction to occult or esoteric topics, although it discusses the
magical practices and rituals of the pertinent groups. It is mainly a documentation and
sometimes discussion of the behaviour of the participant parties.
This study is a mirror of the many puzzle pieces of a phenomenon that is characterised
through the inconsistency and subjectivity of its sources. Apart from legal criteria, every
puzzle piece has been used. Folkloristic aspects are part of the psycho–sociology and
of the history.
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The letters O.T.O. (or OTO) stand for Ordo Templi Orientis. The O.T.O. is a pseudo–
masonic organization cobbled together from symbols, rituals and labellings of regular
and irregular Freemasonry by Theodor Reuss. Neither the use of the letters nor of the
full name is unique to any group. Since the founding of the O.T.O. in 1906 in Germany,
many groups have appropriated the name, its abbreviations, and acronyms and imbued
them with contents to their own taste and liking. There are several rival groups using
the name Ordo Templi Orientis or O.T.O. Some of them derive from an original that is, a
first O.T.O. but not all. Not all but a few of them can lay some claim to stem from the
original i.e. first O.T.O. (of 1906).
The structure of the O.T.O., like that of Freemasonry, is based on a staged series of
initiations or degrees. The essence / secrets of the Ordo Templi Orientis–variations are
in their higher degrees; strictly speaking only members of these degrees are
considered to be members of the O.T.O. proper.
Aleister Crowley (one of the many protagonists of the O.T.O.): "Of the [highest]
Eleventh Degree [of the Ordo Templi Orientis], its powers, privileges, and qualifications,
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nothing whatever is said in any grade. It has no relation to the general plan of the
Order, is inscrutable, and dwells in its own palaces." (Liber CXCIV, 1919) "I am inclined
to believe that the XIth degree is better than the IXth degree", diary entry 26 August
1916.
While the O.T.O.’s initiatory system is a sort of Kafkaesque bureaucratic club game, it
has a religious association under its obedience: The Gnostic Catholic Church. One of
the O.T.O.groups intends "to restore Christianity to its real status as a solar–phallic
religion." In addition to tax advantages, religion supplies a commodity that is always in
demand: salvation. And it would seem that some O.T.O.–variations are simply making
themselves bulletproof in the context of the law in some countries.
The technical term for the bishopric in the context of the O.T.O. Phenomenon is
Wandering Bishop or Episcopi Vagantes. This status is not defined by any character
qualities, not by theological education or theological position. These bishops are not
elected by a canonical church, nor proposed as an ordain by a suffragan and not bound
to a historical episcopal see or consecrated by an official bishop according to the
canonical procedure.
A real bishop is not a successor of a sole apostle as only the synod/college of bishops
in toto are heir to the college of the apostles. Therefore: no Wandering Bishop has a
real apostolic succession. There is no Holy Ghost in Wandering–Bishop–consecrations.
Their instrumentum consecrationis is of no apostolic value. Nonetheless, Wandering
Bishops are collectors of papers and diplomas.
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In all Ordo Templi Orientis versions, the line of succession is vitally important, as it is believed that
the leader is the repository of the Order’s magical power, and also has a claim on various
copyrights and royalties, especially of Aleister Crowley’s work.
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This site is about the German Fraternitas Saturni, the Golden Dawn, Memphis Misraim
(one of the mother–Orders of the Ordo Templi Orientis), the Gnostic Catholic
Churches (of French origin), the German Order of the Illuminati, the Anthroposophy, the
mostly Pan–American Fraternitas Rosicruciana Antiqua, the QBLH, A.M.O.R.C., the
Austrian AAORRAC, German Pansophia, the Choronzon Club (a sort of homosexual
O.T.O. off–shoot), Ordo Templi Orientis Antiqua as an example of gnostic inflation with
uncountable outpours and affiliations: eg the 'Monastery of the 7 Rays' and 'La
Couleuvre Noire'; a new American O.T.O. founded in 1977 (called 'Caliphate'), the
Society O.T.O. (in Brazil and the US), the Typhonian Ordo Templi Orientis (these days
called Typhonian Order), the Swiss O.T.O., also about the Solar Lodge of the O.T.O.
and Charles Manson; Abramelin and Holy Guardian Angels: Aiwaz, LAM, Baphomet
and its equivalent: the egregor GOTOS of the Fraternitas Saturni.
Spermo-Gnostics and the Ordo Templi Orientis — Introduction to the "Ascetic and
Libertine Gnostics".
Part One of Smoke Gets In Your Aiwass. All about Angels and Abramelin.
Part Two: More on The chajoth, the ‘living creations’ or “flying things”.
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Gaps in the Script of Esotericism: Hypocrisy and Hypercrisis — Oscar Wilde: Ambition
is the last resort of failure. 2012.
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occult culture; a presentation of never before published rituals (of the original Ordo
Templi Orientis: a variation of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Light) and texts lost in
the archives until now.
Read about scurrilous legal opinions and fights and get puzzled by the Ethnological
approach to all this.
The suitability of methods for thinking about occultism and esotericism is linked to results. So long
as those insights stay discursive, innovative and useful, any method — however informal or offbeat
— is not only appropriate but even required. Thus scientific analysis becomes a conversation
between subject and researcher, and can only ever yield tentative results. Wayward ideas can and
should be viewed from wayward perspectives.
Reading Paul–Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida will not hurt you.
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Saturn-Gnosis — a portrait of the Fraternitas Saturni and its magical link to the Ordo
Templi Orientis.
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Das Milieu des Templer Reichs — Die Sklaven Sollen Dienen. Hanns Heinz Ewers —
Lanz von Liebenfels — Karl Germer, Arnoldo Krumm-Heller — Martha Kuentzel —
Friedrich Lekve — Hermann Joseph Metzger — Christian Bouchet — Paolo Fogagnolo
— James Wasserman. Unbequeme Aspekte in der Geschichte des O.T.O. und
Thelema.
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Carl Kellner
Carl Kellner, Theodor Reuss, Clément de Saint-Marq, E.C.H. Peithmann, Ernst Tristan Kurtzahn,
P.B. Randolph, Rudolf Steiner not being a member of the O.T.O., Franz Hartmann (no member of
the O.T.O.), Aleister Crowley, Karl Germer, Arnoldo Krumm–Heller, Herbert Fritsche, Michael P.
Bertiaux, Hermann Joseph Metzger and his Ladies, Grady L. McMurtry, Friedrich Lekve, Friedrich
Mellinger, William Wallace Webb, Eugen Grosche, Henri Birven, Joanny Bricaud, Leopold Engel,
Franz Bardon, Charles Manson and the Solar Lodge of the O.T.O., 'Caliphate', Heinrich Traenker,
Kenneth Grant, Marcelo Ramos Motta, William Breeze ...
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Introduction
Background
Josef Dvorak: Carl Kellner [collected gossips and speculations about Kellner's life,
Franz Hartmann, Hatha Yoga and Baphomet].
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Gerald Yorke about the real Outer Head of the Order (OHO).
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A.P. Eberhardt: Von den Winkellogen Deutschlands [O.T.O., Illuminati, Memphis-
Misraim, etc.]
English: Theodor Reuss and the Brothers of Light in the Seven Churches of Asia.
The origins of Brotherhood of Light of Theodor Reuss.
Deutsch: Die Brueder des Lichtes der sieben Gemeinden in Asien. Theodor Reuss'
Hermetische Bruderschaft des Lichtes.
Français: Les Frères de Lumière dans les Sept Églises d'Asie. Les origines de la
Fraternité de Lumière de Theodor Reuss.
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Declaration that the relations between the Grand Orient and Theodor Reuss were
definitely past history.
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both:
["Der Grosse Theodor Reuss Reader"]
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[From: "Feldzug gegen Rudolf Steiner", Flensburger Hefte 63 IV/98, Flensburg 1998]
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Two letters from Theodor Reuss concerning Franz Hartmann / Rudolf Steiner.
"Gestatten, Under-Cover Agent Peter-R. König" — Ein Interview für die 'Flensburger
Hefte' zum Thema "Feldzug gegen Rudolf Steiner".
Spencer Lewis and the O.T.O. which is a chapter of my 'Der O.T.O. Phänomen
RELOAD', about Spencer Lewis, Theodor Reuss, Aleister Crowley and Heinrich
Traenker.
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Dance the Adolf Hitler. Krumm-Heller and his Hitlerianismo. Aleister Crowley and his
dreams about Hitler.
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Heinrich Traenker:
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'Das Beste von Heinrich Tränker'.
Selection of on–line documents.
Die GOTOS-Büste.
Painting by:
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[Collage]
Felix Lazerus Pinkus — Hermann J. Metzger's spiritual father and Grandmaster of the O.T.O. in
Switzerland.
Thelema in Appenzell ? (containing an interview with Hansruedi Giger and Ulla von Bernus).
The Psychosophical Publishing Company: Metzger's publishing firm and connection to Franz Bardon,
Lanz Liebenfels, the Ordo Militiae Crucis Templi, Memphis Misraim, the Argenteum Astrum, and his
thoughts on Thelema.
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Karl Germer's correspondence with Friedrich Mellinger about H.J. Metzger, Pinkus, Grosche and
Traenker.
Friedrich Lekve — Dreamland Thelem Chassidim — Martha Kuentzel. With links to texts.
Illuminati and Templars — From Leopold Engel to Walter Englert, a 18° of the Fraternitas Saturni.
Material on and from the Typhonian O.T.O. — Keywords: Kenneth Grant, Shaitan-Aiwass, New Isis
Lodge, Michael Staley, Starfire, LAM, Maat and the New Aeon, Maggie Ingalls, Nema, Linda Falorio.
History of a Fake. Aleister Crowley appointing Kenneth Grant as his successor as Outer Head of the
Order of the Templi Orientis in 1947?
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Charles Manson and the Solar Lodge of the O.T.O. — Reports by witnesses and the FBI.
About Jack Parsons in Nikolas and Zeena Schreck: Demons of the Flesh.
News about the 'Caliphate', a firm or club from 1977 and its version of the instrument of "apostolic
succession".
All we want is a 'Caliph': 'Minutes of the Special Ninth Degree Caliphate Election' Held September
20/21, 1985.
"Ljuben je zakon" or "ljubav pod voljom"? — The O.T.O. in ex-'Yugoslavia'. An example of member
activities.
The O.T.O.–Foundation: A new F.S. begets a new O.T.O. — Censorship and Inquisition.
Oscar R. Schlag: self-styled last grey eminence. Jane Wolfe, Marcelo Ramos Motta, Choronzon, Karl
Germer, H.J. Metzger.
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Ritual de Iniciação do Grau I O.T.O.
Carta A Um Maçon.
Lettre à un maçon brésilien.
Letter to a Brazilian Mason UNEXPURGATED.
Bibliographic Note and Addendum to 'Letter to a Brazilian Mason by Marcelo Ramos Motta'.
Marcelo Ramos Motta to Karl Germer, July 2, 1954.
About Paulo Coelho and others.
The Development of a Secret Society in America in the Years 1957-2000 e.V.
Marcelo Motta palavras com Euclydes Lacerda de Almeida, 18 de dezembro de 1973.
Translation of Marcelo Motta's tape to Euclydes Lacerda, dated 1973 e.v.
Claudia Canuto de Menezes: Conheci Marcelo Ramos Motta nos idos anos 70.
Rocket to Uranus — Anal Intercourse and the O.T.O. / Per Aftera Ad Astra — the XIth degree:
Choronzon Club, Ordo Templi Orientis Antiqua, Ordo Argenteum Astrum, QBL Alchemist Church,
Rite of Mitylene.
Patrick King — Herald of the 'Caliph' and early XI° of the 'Caliphate'.
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Lignée malabare: René Vilatte, Jules Doinel, Theodor Reuss, E.C.H. Peithmann, Arnoldo Krumm-
Heller, Herbert Fritsche, Hermann Joseph Metzger.
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Siehe auch die deutsche Seite Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica.
Ernst Tristan Kurtzahn, Mitglied von Reuss' O.T.O.: Die Gnostiker und die Unsichtbare Kirche [1925].
English translation: The Gnostics. — About the Gnostic Catholic Church, Androgyn +
Gynandria, E.C.H. Peithmann, Peryt Shou, and the immissio membri virilis in vaginam in
avoidance of the ejaculatio seminis.
Aleister Crowley appointing W.B. Crow Patriarch of the thelemic Gnostic Catholic Church.
William Bernard Crow: OHO of the O.T.O., Grand Administrator General of Memphis and Mizraim
and Patriarch of the Gnostic Catholic Church: The Ancient and Universal Rite of Cosmic Architecture.
Stephan Hoeller: Position Paper Concerning the Thelemite or Crowleyan Gnostic Churches. About
the importance of magical succession without schisms; about valid and proper intention of
consecrations, and that one Mass no Church doth make.
History of the O.T.O.A.: Inflation of Gnosis — Ordo Templi Orientis Antiqua, Michael Bertiaux, Manuel
Lamparter, La Couleuvre Noire, Monastery of the Seven Rays, Choronzon Club.
My Own O.T.O.A.
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Collections of Re-Collections:
Why and how they became member.
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The Maine Decision, the California decision, The New Court of Last Resort
Contents, Austrian rulings on Copyrights, German rulings on Copyrights, the
International Copyright Situation, X versus the 'Caliphate', Anthony Naylor,
Phaenomen Verlag, Starfire Ltd, Peter-Robert Koenig ...
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What's New?
New items posted to the O.T.O. Phenomenon website, updates and corrections
[starting in March 2000].
Encores
2008: Honesty is the best Policy: How the 'Caliphate' O.T.O. and William Breeze lost
in a legal case.
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Gnosis als Hype. Short German variation with outlines of an interview with
Angie Bowie. First published in DU, November 2003.
Steele Savage: David Bowie — Outside, Aleister Crowley, And the Holy Grail.
Andreas Huettl und Peter–R. König: "Satan — Jünger, Jäger und Justiz".
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Not O.T.O. related: Rudolf von Sebottendorff: Der Talisman des Rosenkreuzers.
With a preface by Albrecht Goetz von Olenhusen.
Der Kleine Theodor Reuss Reader (statutes, the Oriflamme, rituals and sexmagical
writings) — German original version.
The complete English online version of this book: The O.T.O. Phenomenon.
Ein Leben Für Die Rose (the biography of Arnoldo Krumm-Heller, plus an analysis
of Reuss', Crowley's and Krumm-Heller's sexmagick: a comparison with the
Fraternitas Saturni).
ABRAMELIN & Co. (about Holy Guardian Angels and other UFOs). This book also
is an analysis of Crowley's sexmagick, coprophagy and algolagnia and their relation
to the concept of Thelema and the Argenteum Astrum (Silver Star) as personified
in Crowley.
Parts of this book have been translated into English: Part One and Two of
Smoke Gets In Your Aiwass.
A.R.W.
Manfred Ach
Gunta-Stölzl-Str. 9
D - 80807 München
Deutschland / Germany
See them
Scattered On The Floor while
Browsing Through The Rituals
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