Ordo Templi Orientis History and Phenomenon Aleister Crowley, Rudolf Steiner, Theodor Reuss, Carl Kellner, Oscar Schlag, Arnoldo Krumm-Heller, Marcelo Ramos Motta, Kenneth Grant, Gnostic Catholic Church, Argenteum Astrum, Fraternitas Saturni, Memphis-Misraim
The Ordo Templi Orientis Phenomenon
The Ordo Templi Orientis Phenomenon
The Ordo Templi Orientis Phenomenon
A Research Project done by Peter-R. Koenig
A detailed historical field research on the psycho-sociology of a modern secret society called Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.). All about modern day occultism and money; so-called Templars and falsification of history; Gnostics in the kitchen + bedrooms and their "expanded" consciousness; Illuminati and conspiracy; NeuRosicrucians; religious liberty and sexmagick; their relation with Voodoo and Freemasonry; rituals, correspondences, books and articles.
This study is not an introduction to occult or esoteric topics, nor does it discuss the magical practises and rituals of the pertinent groups: it is 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.
The letters O.T.O. (or OTO) stand for Ordo Templi Orientis. The O.T.O. is a pseudo-masonic organization. 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, 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 Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.) originated as a German pseudo-masonic organization. While the O.T.O.’s initiatory system is a sort of Kafkaesque bureaucratic club game, it has a religiously associated section under its obedience: The Gnostic Catholic Church. The O.T.O. intends "to restore Christianity to its real status as a solar-phallic religion".
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 character qualities, not by education or theological position. These bishops are not elected by a canonical church, are not 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 because only the synod/college of bishops in toto is heir to the college of the apostles. The instrumentum consecrationis is of no apostolic value. Nevertheless, Wandering Bishops are collectors of papers and diplomas...
Conclusion: No Wandering Bishop has a 'real' apostolic succession. There is no Holy Ghost in Wandering-Bishop-consecrations.
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.
What's New? - A list of new items, updates and corrections
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 (the only "true" Crowley-O.T.O., in England ?), the Swiss O.T.O.; Abramelin and other Holy Guardian Angels: Aiwaz, LAM, Baphomet and its equivalent: the egregor GOTOS of the Fraternitas Saturni.
Discussions about spermo-gnosticism, the Elixir of Life and homeopathy, Thelema and the protofascistic and misogynist elements of 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.
Find out about the Solar Lodge and Charles Manson, the 'Caliphate', read about scurrilous legal opinions and fights and get puzzled by the Ethnological approach to all this.
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
Nosferatu's Baby -- Too Hot To Handle [the
reader should be familiar with the articles below as this deals
with spermo-gnosis again]
Saturn-Gnosis a portrait of the
Fraternitas Saturni and its magical link to the Ordo Templi Orientis
by Joscelyn Godwin, Ellic Howe, Albrecht Goetz von Olenhusen, H.T. Hakl, Wolfram Frietsch, Thomas Lueckewerth, Otto Buchinger, John Patrick Deveney, Erik Davis, Richard Metzger, Jean-François Mayer, Michael D. Eschner, Bill Heidrick, William Breeze, Christian Bouchet, Kenneth Anger, Ben Fernee, Michael Staley, Michael Aquino, G.M. Kelly aka Martin, Jerry Cornelius, James Grαeb, Richard T. Cole, George Elliott, Kristin T. Schnider, Genesis P-Orridge, Gion Cavelty, Bradford Verter, Angela / Angie Bowie, Christopher Hyatt, Ingo Heinemann, Manfred Ach, Dominik Tischleder, Harald Szeemann, Phyllis Seckler, Helen Parsons Smith, Gerald Suster, Timothy d'Arch Smith, Mark Parry-Maddocks, Johannes Maikowski and others
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) 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
H.J. Metzger's Manifesto 1963 -- With biographical notes on Karl Germer Karl Germer:
Never the OHO of Crowley's O.T.O.
Henry Birven --
addicted to Crowley? Friedrich Lekve -- Dreamland Thelem Chassidim -- Martha Kuentzel. With links to texts. C.H. Petersen
-- Abramelin in the Abbey of Thelema
Gnosis on Stage: Friedrich Mellinger. With H.J. Metzger's Manifesto of 1963
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, P.R. Koenig ...
MP3 / YouTube recordings:
Marcelo Ramos Motta speaking; Oscar Schlag speaking; the voices of W.W. Webb,
Michael P. Bertiaux and Annemarie Aeschbach (the female OHO in
Switzerland); and a grandson of Carl Kellner speaking about his
grandfather: with a lot of documents
Photographs and Documents:
over 100 photographs and documents, directly scanned from the originals:
Carl Kellner, Theodor Reuss, Arnoldo Krumm-Heller, Marcelo R. Motta, Oscar Schlag,
charters, letters, manuscripts ...
What's New?
- A list of new items posted to the O.T.O. Phenomenon website, updates
and corrections [starting in March 2000]
Das O.T.O.-Phaenomen (the complete History of the O.T.O. groups)
The complete English online version of this book: The O.T.O.
Phenomenon Ein Leben fuer 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).
Have a look at picture 1
and at picture 2.
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.
My intent is to mirror puzzle pieces of the O.T.O.-phenomenon. If
you have annotations, corrections, suggestions or complaints do not
hesitate to contact me: mail
