Success Is Your Proof: One Hundred Years of OTO in North America by Richard Kaczynski, Frater Iskandar, Frater Taos, Lita-Luise Chappell, Vere Chappell, Cynthia Crosse, Clive Harper, Stephen J King, etc.
Hardcover: 200 pages
Publisher: Sekmet Books; 1st edition (December 23, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0986336521
On May 16, 2015 ev, Ordo Templi Orientis celebrated its North American Centennial – commemorating the founding of Canada’s British Columbia Lodge No. 1 in 1915 – with a day-long conference hosted in Vancouver by O.T.O. Canada. Prominent researchers and leaders of O.T.O. were invited to deliver papers on this occasion, which are presented here along with additional essays to enhance the utility of this collection for Order members, and other students and practitioners of Thelemic spiritual development. This commemorative festschrift volume is dedicated to Frater Superior Hymenaeus Beta-for 2015 also marks the 30th anniversary of his governing Ordo Templi Orientis. All of the conference presenters, supplemental essayists, Frater Superior’s Representatives, and National Grand Masters are honored to be able to express our gratitude and appreciation for his leadership over these decades.
The ‘Notes Towards a Bibliography’ are especially interesting. I didn’t know, for example, that ‘Keith Rhys’, editor of the Temple Press edition of ‘The Stratagem’ is William Breeze, as is the Fr HHD who edited Jack Parsons’ ‘Magick, Gnosticism & The Witchcraft’.
A very novel and interesting way of counting to one hundred for an organization founded in the late 1970s, and of measuring “success”.
As to the described contents, it is good to know that high-ranking (c)OTO officials take their oaths of personal fealty to HB so seriously.
Success is thy proof, eh? Well, if proof of success is the criterion, what judgement can one be meant to draw from the fact that for the whole of this particular century so far, more and more Crowley titles – for which legacy the O.T.O. is arguably supposedly solely in existence for “in order” to promote and promulgate – have lapsed out of print: far be it from any new ones being allowed to appear for a long time either. To give the five main instances, the publication of properly edited and full, sensibly annotated versions of the Confessions, the… Read more »