Ordo Templi Orientis - The Gnostic Catholic Church

Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.) (Order of the Temple of the East, or the Order of Oriental Templars) is an international fraternal and religious organization. For its teachings and principles of organization, it has accepted the Law of Thelema, which is expressed as “Do what thou wilt is the whole of the Law.” Thelemites believe that this Law was established with the writing of the Book of the Law by Aleister Crowley in 1904 in Cairo, Egypt. Its structure is similar to that of Freemasonry, with a series of graded initi ...

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• Ordo Templi Orientis - The Gnostic Catholic Church
• Ordo Templi Orientis - O.T.O. bodies
• Ordo Templi Orientis - History
• Ordo Templi Orientis - The beginnings
• Ordo Templi Orientis - O.T.O. and Aleister Crowley
• Ordo Templi Orientis - O.T.O. after Crowley
• Ordo Templi Orientis - Schisms in the Thelemic community
• Ordo Templi Orientis - Teachings
• Ordo Templi Orientis - Opposing views

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Ordo Templi Orientis - The beginnings. The founding of Ordo Templi Orientis began with a wealthy paper chemist, Carl Kellner (1851-1905). A student of the occult and familiar with several modern secret organizations, he had come to believe that he had discovered a “Key” to the symbolism of Freemasonry and to the Mysteries of Nature itself. He then aspired to create an Academia Masonica that would unifiy the various systems of Masonry. Kellner, along with an associate, Theodor Reuss (1855-1923), decided to cal ...

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Aleister Crowley and O.T.O. are frequently labeled as evil. Several Christian churches consider O.T.O. to be Satanic (although the tenets of Thelema do not include Satan or his worship) despite a dearth of evidence to support the claim. There are those, including occultists and Thelemites of other organisations, such as members of Grant's Typhonian Ordo Templi Orientis, who do not agree that O.T.O. as revived by McMurtry is the sole legitimate continuation of the Order as headed by Aleister Crowley. Those who hold such views tend to r ...

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The governing bodies of O.T.O. include: International Headquarters Presided over by the Outer Head of the Order XII° (OHO—also known as Frater Superior) Supreme Council Revolutionaries The Sovereign Sanctuary of the Gnosis of the IX° The Secret Areopagus of the Illuminati of the VIII° The Grand Tribunal of the VI° The National Grand Lodge Presided over by the National Grand Master X° Executive Council The Supreme Grand Counci ...

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O.T.O. was described by Crowley as the "first of the great Old Æon orders to accept The Book of the Law". O.T.O. was originally affiliated with European masonic organisations, although Crowley eventually cut all formal ties with Freemasonry—largely because of the integration of the Law of Thelema and the Order's equal acceptance of women. Although some masonic symbolism and language is in use, their context is no longer that of Freemasonry, but of Thelema and its tenets. "The Order offers esoteric instruction through dramatic ritual, guid ...

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