[69] Sascha to Karl Germer, no date. [70] Karl to Sascha Germer, 5.1.57. [71] Helen P. Smith in McMurtry vs. Motta, 14.5.85, p. 330. [72] Motta in McMurtry vs. Motta, 16.5.85, p. 671. [73] Parsival Krumm-Hellerâs approach, trying to lead the F.R.A. groups while altering his late fatherâs work in Germany, threw the different branches of the F.R.A. into considerable confusion. Most F.R.A. groups did not acknowledge his leadership. While Arnoldo Krumm-Heller had encouraged a union between the F.R.A. and Reuben Swinburne Clymerâs âRosicrucian Fraternityâ in America, Parsival cut ties with Clymer. [74] Motta: âSex and Religionâ, i.e. âEquinoxâ V;4, Nashville 1981, p. 27. Motta lived in Germerâs house for one week; McMurtry vs. Motta, 16.5.85, p. 676. He claimed to have been initiated into the IXÂ° by Germer at this time. His official testimony, however, only mentioned his acceptance into the A.·. A.·., Motta vs. Weiser, 1.3.84, p. 54. But âI have seen the evidence of Mottaâs IXth initiation,â Martin Starr to Marcelo Santos, 16 May 1999. [75] Motta: âChamando os filhos do Solâ, Rio 1962. [76] âMy originals were systematically refused. And I was given adaptations of works of the last century,â Motta in McMurtry vs. Motta, 16.5.85, p. 712. This is why he was compelled to make his living as an English teacher. [77] Motta: âRaul dos Santos Seixas: Brasilian pop singer and composer. Was for a time a Probationer under Marcelo Motta. Tried to use Crowley for personal success, aping the Beatles. By his own request, wrote seÂ­veral songs with Motta as his lyricist. Tried to rob the lyricist and bowdlerized several of his lyrics, bowing to official government censorship. Cut contact with,â âEquinoxâ V;4, p. xv. Two pop songs by Santos Seixas (died 1989), were purportedly written by Motta: âEu Sou EgoÃ­staâ and âPeixuxa (O amiguinho dos Peixes)â. Seixas had supposedly sang a version of Crowleyâs âLiber OZâ during his live shows. After he had been expelled by Motta, Seixas came under the tutelage of Claudia Canuto de Menezes and founded a âSociedade Alternativa.â [78] 20.9.56, Motta to Germer. [79] âO.T.O.: You must have realised that my heart and soul are not very deeply in this. A.C. knew this. He suggested to me that after his death I may either drop this form or system of working, or devise my own entirely independent method,â Germer to C.H. .i. Petersen ; , 6.1.54. [80] .i. Grant ; , 18.12.1944. Cited in .i. Grant, â ; Remembering Aleister Crowleyâ, p. 7. Other lineages: Harry Smith, Gerald Yorke, C.F. Russell, Kenneth Grant, H.J. Metzger, Crowley toGrant, 18.12.1944. Cited inGrant, âRemembering Aleister Crowleyâ, p. 7. Other lineages: Harry Smith, Gerald Yorke, C.F. Russell, Kenneth Grant, H.J. Metzger, Charles Waldemar , Arnoldo Krumm-Heller (who, as a 8Â°=3  , took Giuseppe Cagliostro Cambareri), Francis Regardie. [81] A later handwritten note by Sascha Germer appeared to say âI am no member of the OTO.â This is one of the reasons why her judgment as to who was her husbandâs heir was disregarded by the American membership. [82] Jerry Cornelius: âIn The Name of the Beastâ Volume One â 1918â1962, Berkeley 2005, p. 177. [83] âO.T.O. Newsletterâ, Berkeley 1977, I;2, p. 5. [84] âBlue Equinoxâ, Detroit 1919, p. 244. [85] Crowleyâs son Randall Gair MacAlpine (1937â2002), who was Jean Shivonenâs boyfriend. [86] âO.T.O. Newsletterâ, I;2, p. 5. [87] The Burlingames would later become instrumental in starting the Solar Lodge, the first O.T.O. lodge in the US since Germer closed AgapÃ© in 1953. [88] Many of McMurtryâs supporters are still gullible enough to swallow this âdiagnosisâ that Germer was mentally ill, despite never actually having met Germer, nor being able to read or speak German. On the other hand, they seem happy to accept that McMurtry was a drug-addicted alcoholic with suicidal tendencies, who had begun to talk to his âvoices in the headâ; likewise that he was âbordering on paranoid fitsâ and could no longer distinguish between dreams and reality, and that he regularly twisted the âtruth to benefit himself in order to achieve his intended goals.â Cornelius: âIn The Name Of The Beastâ Volume Two â 1962â1985, Berkeley 2005, pp. 31, 66, 94, 96, 108. Jane Wolfe, despite her constant history of confinement in mental asylums, is nevertheless considered a saint in the âLiturgyâ of the âCaliphateâ O.T.O.âs Gnostic Mass. [89] .i. Montenegro ; to Walter .i. Englert ; , 30.11.68. [90] Later, Montenegro was appointed 33Â°, IXÂ°, and O.T.O. Supreme Sovereign for both North and South America by H.J. Metzger in 1966. Referring to the business of being named as Grandmaster of the O.T.O. by Metzger, Paul R. Audehm (who was one of the witnesses) remembered that ââMontyâ was so drunk, he obviously didnât have the faintest idea what was going on.â Letter of 8.7.88. [91] âI agree with Brother Monty fully,â 23.11.60. Later, Smith changed her opinion and supported McMurtry. In 1985 she also voted for his successor, William Breeze. [92] Statement of Smith, McMurtry vs. Motta, 14.5.85, p. 363. [93] .i. Starr ; , letter to the present author, 7.6.88. [94] .i. Starr ; , letter of 17.2.88. [95] Metzger: âSummarischer Bericht an Sor. Sascha [Germer] betr. O.T.O. und Abtei Thelemaâ, Spring 1963. [96] Germer to Mellinger, letter of 25.9.51. [97] .i. Seckler ; , 'ITC' V;2, Oroville 1992, p. 42. [98] Germer to Williams, 24.6.58. [99] Frau Lekve gave the copyrights of her husbandâs writings to the publisher A.R.W. which resulted in P.R. Koenig: âDas Beste von Friedrich Lekveâ, Munich 1997. [100] Francis .i. King ; , âThe Secret Rituals of the OTOâ, London 1973, p. 32. [101] On 14.11.1963 Metzger became President and stated that the O.T.O. under Reuss separated from the Illuminati Order in 1902. Metzger wanted to re-incorporate everything in due course. Metzger devised his own individual grade-system: IÂ°âIIÂ°: Outer Order, Gnostic Catholic Church. IIIÂ°âVÂ°: Blue or Craft Masonry. VIÂ°âVIIIÂ°: Red or Royal Arch Masonry. F.R.A. and Illuminati degree. XÂ°âXIIÂ°: Mystical Masonry, O.T.O. and Illuminati degree. XIIIÂ°: Patriarchate, Areopagus, Illuminatus. [102] The French Gnostic Churches, which also suffered from countless schisms, began in 1890 and supposedly ran along the usual ecclesiastical lines of apostolic succession. But neither Reuss nor Crowley ever received a valid apostolic succession. [103] During the disputes about the heirship after her husbandâs death in October 1962, Sascha Germer quoted this passage in the letter to her lawyer and added: âThe things to be dealt with were the heirship which is the sole measure for the future of the work. Frater Saturnusâ [Germer] Will and Wish was: that Frater Paragranus [Metzger] takes the Heavy Burden off his shoulders,â Sascha Germer to her lawyer and to Friedrich/Frederic Mellinger, no date. [104] Similarly, .i. Motta ; in his âCommentaries of ALâ, New York 1975, p. 270. [105] Had Metzger really âaltered a holy textâ? A detailed comparison between the âHoly Books of Thelemaâ in their original English and Metzgerâs translations, yields (apart from the additional chapter Metzger inserted in his German version of âMagick in Theory and Practiceâ) only this: Metzger translated âGodâ in âLiber VIIâ in capitals as âGOTTâ (capital letters). The foreword to Karl Germerâs translation of âLiber LXVâ stated that âThe ideas inspiring the editing of this work have been examined meanwhile, so that the main points in the translation, notes, etc., have been correctedâ, and hinted that Crowleyâs commentaries on the text had become confused. The poem âA Hundred Years Henceâ, with the line âI am going to temple to worship Crowleyâ was missing in Metzgerâs publication. Lekveâs 1949 version of âLiber LXVâ which Metzger took on, with its altered commentary and the same omissions, silently ignored Germer. The capital-lettered âDUâ in âTu was DU willstâ first appeared in the first issue of the âOriflammeâ on March 20th 1961, and vanished after the winter/new year âOriflammeâ for 1963â64. The explanation for the blasphemous âDUâ translation was: âCapital letters are used to render the unusual English âThouâ. That is to say, it does not mean âDo what you willâ [words in English], but âDo what thou wilt.â [words in English]â Alterations to a Crowley text are to be found in the unpublished âGnostic Mass, original version, as celebrated by the Brothers and Sisters of the OTO at the ABBEY OF THELEMA in Stein.â The long litany of saints in the published version is abbreviated to: âWe honour the memory of the Son of God +, the Wise + and Prophets +, the holy Bards + and Martyrs, that they may vouchsafe the Light of the Gnosis to us, our heirs and successors.â Crowleyâs essay in NÂº XXXV of the âEnglish Reviewâ, dated August 1922 was included by him in his âConfessionsâ as Chapter 72 with certain alterations regarding the O.T.O.. Metzger reprinted the original version from the âEnglish Reviewâ. Of all the bodies that counted themselves part of the O.T.O., Reussâs 1914 publication of Crowleyâs MMM-Manifesto, Crowleyâs version of 1919, and Metzgerâs 1957 version do not agree between themselves; though in Golden Dawn matters only Reuss and Metzger agree. In Metzgerâs published edition of Crowleyâs exposition of Yogic formulÃ¦ âGnana Yoga, Raja Yoga and Hatha Yogaâ, the various A.·. A.·. âimprimatursâ and the signature of Crowleyâs colleague Leila Waddell (âL. Bathurstâ) from the original are missing. It is interesting to examine how C.H. Petersen and H.J. Metzger rendered their German translations of âThe Book of the Lawâ: Liber AL ch.III v.50: âcurse them! curse them! curse them!â Petersen: âFluch ihnen! Fluch! Fluch!â (which is accurate enough). Metzger: âWeg mit ihnen! Weg mit ihnen! Weg mit ihnen!â (which approximates to âAway with them!â) Liber AL ch.III v.55: âLet Mary inviolate be torn upon wheels: [...]â Petersen: âunbefleckte Maria auf dem Rade gebrochenâ (âunblemished Mary broken on wheels,â again faithful to the original). Metzger: âauf dem Rade gedrehtâ (âturned on wheelsâ). [106] Germerâs death in 1962 met with McMurtryâs stolid indifference although he had known about it since 1963. [107] Motta and Germer believed Oscar Schlag to be the evil Choronzon (a chief devil of sorts, in the Thelemic hierarchy): the gematria of âSchlagâ numerically equals 333, the same numerological value of âChoronzonâ. [108] Mottaâs âOriflammeâ Vol. VI;5, Rio 1987, p. 100. Also to Germer on 17.12.61. [109] Sascha Germerâs letter dated 15th December 1963 would only have added to this confusion. [110] McMurtry vs. Motta, 16.5.85, 689. In his own copy of the court transcript Motta noted: âLaughter from the Californian group.â The judge warned the participants: âLadies and gentlemen, you are here as spectators only. You are not to interrupt in any way or make any response to any of the testiÂ­mony.â [111] William Wallace Webb was born on 11th May 1919 in Seattle, Washington. On 7th April 1941 he entered the Marines, and served as forward artillery observer, taking part in operations in the Solomon Islands, Guadalcanal, and elsewhere. Five years after he left the Marines, his mystical life began in 1950, earning a living as both an astrologer and artist. He founded the âPhilosophic Gnostic Hermetic Societyâ, at Joshua Tree in 1963, and an offshoot of the Choronzon Club (although independent from C.F. Russell, Crowleyâs lover who had founded the CC in the late 1920s). Webb had previously founded the âQBL Alchemist Churchâ, and also headed his own âOrdo Argenteum Astrumâ. [112] Germer had two sisters, Elisabeth and Margarete, and four brothers, Otto, Wilhelm, Gustav and Alfred. [113] Court transcript .i. McMurtry ; vs. .i. Motta ; , 538. McMurtry was in error; Yorke had sent the original manuscript of Liber AL to Germer in 1948. [114] âO.T.O. Newsletterâ II;1, 1978, p. 5, and court transcript .i. McMurtry ; vs. .i. Motta ; , p. 541. [115] âWe, Grand Secretary General of the Sovereign Sanctuary of the Ordo Templi Orientis, hereby give due Notice to all Sovereign Sanctuaries and Bodies in friendship with the Sovereign Sanctuary of the Ordo Templi Orientis and to all Members of the said Rite, that the lamented Most Illustrious Frater Superior of the Ordo Templi Orientis, Frater Saturnus (Karl Johannes Germer) Outer Head of Order, departed this earthly life and was called to the Grand East on Oct. 25th, 1962, E.V., and that a convocation of Prince Patriarch Grand Conservators of the said Rite on Jan. 6th, 1963, E.V. held in the Abbey Thelema, Stein/App., unanimously elected the Very Illustrious + H. Josephus M., Fra. Paragranus [i.e. Metzger], Grand Master XÂ° of the Ordo Templi Orientis, Sovereign Grand Master General of Ordo Illuminatorum, Sovereign Grand Master General of Fraternitas Rosicruciana Antiqua, and Sovereign Patriarch of Ecclesiae Gnosticae Catholicae henceforth to be Sovereign Grand Master General, Outer Head of Order of the Ordo Templi Orientis.â [116] âI wrote that, but I was entirely mistaken,â Seckler in McMurtry vs. Motta, 14.5.85, p. 294. [117] .i. Seckler ; , letter of 10.6.87. [118] Seckler, âITCâ II;2, p. 9. [119] âThere is reason to believe that he made a second will which may have read otherwise, but if Mrs. Germer found it, she refused to communicate that information,â McMurtry to Sergeant Henry C. Hayes, May 21, 1971. [120] Harnisch, Naber, Scheidegger, âRomanusâ and âElieserâ are listed as having elected Metzger as O.H.O.. The minutes of their convocation were plagiarised word-for-word from Reussâs âOriflammeâ of July 1913, and Crowley's âEquinoxâ (Volume I;10 of September 1913, p. xxv). The record of the election was accompanied by an affidavit confirming the vote, signed by the Notary-Public of Zuerich Altstadt, and a certification of Metzgerâs standing as a âreputable and law-abiding citizenâ; and thus his election as O.H.O. was thoroughly officially attested. [121] Several suits and coats, garden tools, a 1954 Buick, and two typewriters. [122] .i. Motta ; to Robert E. Mittel, 12.7.1984. Mittel was .i. Mottaâ ; s lawyer for Motta vs. .i. Weiser ; Inc. [123] Sascha Germer to Chisholm, letter of 20.3.63: âI have no Personal Interest in Mr. Metzger.â [124] In regard to the office of XÂ°, the Swiss O.T.O. considered Crowleyâs Liber CXCIV of 1919 to be effective when there were 11 Profess Houses in a country. In the absence of such, the âCaliphateâ considered that every IXÂ° was to be a Profess House; see Seckler to McMurtry, letter dated 1 June 1983. [125] Markus .i. Kumer (a member of Metzgerâs inner circle) ; , conversation on 16.9.91. Possibly after Mellinger failed to find a successful place in the growing theatrical worlds of Berlin and Munich, as a cultured, educated, and previously energetic man he simply seems to have got bored with the Thelemites. Germer complained at Mellingerâs overbearing manner towards the semi-literate members of the 2nd AgapÃ© Lodge. Not surprisingly, Mellinger who was used to moving in very cultured circles, was easily bored, even by Germer who admittedly did ânot read booksâ (letter to Mellinger 8 July 1951). Likewise Crowley to Henri Birven: âI am very ignorant of all that concerns liteÂ­rature. I have read exceedingly little,â 13.12.29. [126] Mellinger to Chisholm, letter of 25.9.1963. [127] Max Schneiderâs diary for 8.7.1943, quoted in âThe Thelema Lodge Newsletterâ, August 1992. Crowley to Germer: âI rather doubt Fredericâs judgement,â 29.11.44 and âI must say that I donât think much of Frederickâs judgement,â 24.1.45. [128] Chisholm to Mellinger, letter of 1.11.63. [129] Rickless to Sascha Germer, letter of 13.1.1964. [130] Letter to W.W. Webb in July 1966. [131] Letter of February 22nd 1988. âLouis T. Culling [...] showed me several letters, written by Mr. Germer,â which set Metzger up as the heir to the O.T.O.. âI saw them with my own eyes.â Hoeller is author of âThe Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons of Deathâ, London 1982. He wrote a Statement âConcerning the Thelemite or Crowleyan Gnostic Churchesâ where he concluded that âone Mass no church doth make.â [132] Court transcript of McMurtry vs. Motta, pp. 406, 542. [133] Cornelius, âIn The Name of the Beastâ, II, p. 14. [134] Motta and his lawyer said the same, Motta vs. Weiser, 1.3.84, p. 59. [135] After being harassed with legal threats by the âCaliphateâ for several years, Symonds transferred his rights to Anthony Naylor (b. 1949) on 5th April 1998. On 20th September 1999, Naylor transferred his rights to his firm Mandrake Press Ltd. [136] The country doctor Naber soon changed his mind and wrote to Montenegro on 29.10.68: âIn those ten years I had got no real progress out of the Order; and most of the Bros. who I know were similarly disappointed. But any open criticism of this sort met with the reprimand that we were not doing our duties well enough in accord with the solemn oath we had taken [...]. It is known that many others quietly withdrew from the O[rder]; the reason for this certainly has something to do with P[aragranus]âs âinitiatedâ behaviour in public, and how his teachings and sayings contrasted with his defects as a spiritual leader, as well as his lack of sincerity and his secretiveness. âDo what thou wiltâ only had a theoretical meaning there, since having an original thought was treated as treason, or else mocked. Consequently one parroted what his lordship said â or stayed silent. Practicalities or spiritual matters were hardly ever mentioned; the usual conversations were average bar-room stuff.â [137] Englert was influential in the history of the Fraternitas Saturni, the Swiss O.T.O. and his own Order of Illuminati in Germany. In 1968 he legally incorporated an O.T.O. in Germany, still active today. [138] .i. Starr ; , 17.2.88. [139] .i. Heidrick ; , letter of 18.11.87; also in âThelema Lodge O.T.O. Newsletterâ, February 1993. [140] Letter to .i. Motta ; on 7.10.68 (which must have been sent later, according to the post scriptum dated 3rd December) again to Motta on 16.11.74, and Seckler in âITCâ II;2, p. 10. Also McMurtry vs. Motta, 14.5.85, p. 210. Neither Stella Seckler nor her sister Lisa Doyle were at all interested in Thelema, while Phyllis Secklerâs son Paul Stuart was â but only for a short time; Seckler in McMurtry vs. Motta, 14.5.85, p. 262 . [141] Had Sascha Germer not accused her daughter, Phyllis Seckler might âhave never known about Germerâs death. Not would she have written to Grady [McMurtry]â and thereby initiated the birth of the âCaliphateâ. Cornelius, âIn The Name of the Beastâ, II, p. 30. [142] Where the second AgapÃ© Lodge was in 1942. [143] Seckler, âITCâ Vol. II;2, p. 11; âThelema Lodge Newsletterâ, July 1992. Heidrick even talked about an initiation in a letter to James M. Martin of 8.5.87. [shiva0] "It was also at this time of the first initiations [1965] that I conceived and suggested the name 'Solar Lodge.' The term, 'Solar,' was selected due to its derivation from the Sun (Sol), around which everything else in our 'solar system' revolves. It was intended that there would eventually be additional Lodges that would 'revolve' around this central Solar Lodge. Capricornus [Jean Brayton] liked it and the appellation was immediately adopted." â Frater Shiva: "Inside Solar Lodge â Outside the Law", York Beach 2007, 31. [144] Frater Shiva: "Liber Disclosum No Number BEING AN ANAL-LYSIS OF MATERIAL PUBLICKLY POSTED BY MR. KOENIG (SWITZERLAND) THAT REFERS TO Solar Lodge R.I.P." 14th March 2011. Ray and Mildred Burlingame, assisted by another AgapÃ© Lodge member, Milton S. Basham, had initiated the Braytons into the VÂ° and the IXÂ° in 1963. Whether this lodge is deemed âauthorisedâ or not, it was the first lodge of the O.T.O. in the USA operative since the closure of AgapÃ© Lodge in 1953, and preceded the founding of the âCaliphateâ in 1977. "Ray and Mildred Burlingame, plus Mr. Basham, initiated Jean Brayton into the Minerval degree and the first degree on Tuesday evening, October 30, 1962. After her ceremonies, Milton Basham (and, it is said, his wife also) received the second degree. Jean's husband, Richard (Dick) Brayton, never received any form of teaching or initiation from the Burlingames. Somewhere, at intervals of a few months, between the date of this initiation (Oct 1962) and July 1965, Ray Burlingame initiated Jean Brayton into the VÂ° and the IXÂ°, supplying her with (carbon-copy-style) copies of all the papers and initiation rites pertaining to all the grades, until the stack of papers was nine layers deep. The final document, Emblems and Modes of Use, was hand copied by Jean Brayton with pen and paper from a hand-written document that Ray had set before her after her brief ceremony. In case anyone wonders â¦ there was no sexual activity involved. Then he stood over her and watched as she transcribed the 'codex' into her own possession. I (Shiva) was present during many of the meetings described in the time period cited above. I was never present at an 'initiation,' but I stood solitary guard in the outer temple as the higher grades were being transmitted in another room. The radiating energy (which 'leaked through the veil') had a peculiarly subjective 'radioactive' quality. No drugs were ever used â Frater Aquarius warned of their dangers and was firmly set against them. I have repeated what she described to me about certain activities that took place behind that 'veil,' and it is the same ways and activities that she used when she transmitted this same information to me, and to several others (in the VÂ°), and to a few of us in the higher numbers. This entire series of transmission of degrees is sometimes hotly debated, and it is not recognized by the current OTO, incorporated. I have publicly acknowledged their position and here is â¦ why? 1. The generally accepted rule for authorizing initiation is a written note (charter) from The Grand Master Baphomet (for beginners, see IIIÂ° oath). Setting aside any considerations of the fact that there was no Grand Master in any form in those days, I must admit â We had no written charter, neither from any Grand Master nor from Frater Aquarius (Ray). 2. Instead of a charter, the entire operation revolved around a certain IXÂ° talisman that I have openly described elsewhere. After Ray had given Jean her final papers, he said, 'By the way, you'll need this â¦' as he passed her the powerhouse that had come to him from Aleister Crowley via Jane Wolfe. This was not an OTO emblem â it was what we might call a 'Thelemic Emblem,' placed on top of a graded stack of OTO initiation documents. This does not constitute generally accepted authority to initiate into the OTO or to use the initials OTOÂ®. 3. Since the engine that ran our daily lives was the A.·. A.·. curriculum, and the commonly used name for our society was 'Solar Lodge,' I am content with that title, historically speaking, for it carries its own distinct vibration. 4. In respect of our relation to any external body or corporation, our organizational structure and operation would fall under the title, Clandestine." Frater Shiva, Email 16th March 2011. [Shiva1] Frater Shiva, Liber Disclosum. [145] Seckler, âITCâ Vol. II;2, p. 12. In 1971, Richard Brayton acknowledged McMurtry as âCaliphâ and suggested they unite their forces. McMurtry refused. [146] However, a member of the Solar Lodge called Robert Duerrstein informed Motta that there couldnât have been anything worth stealing in Sascha Germer's house, since heâd been assured by Ray Burlingame that there were no documents there. Mottaâs âOriflammeâ Vol. VI;5, Rio de Janeiro 1987, p. 222; also Jean Brayton to Mildred Burlingame, letter of 23.12.69. Duerrstein was mentioned in the FBI files on the Solar Lodge. [147] âLike true friends they only took one of each book, thus leaving Mrs. Burlingame a number of duplicates instead of taking everything.â McMurtry to Ray E. Lindstrom, October 17, 1970. [148] As such, the Burlingames became the primary figures responsible for the manufacture of the âCaliphateâ under Seckler and McMurtry. Frater Shiva:[1965][Jean Brayton]â Frater Shiva: "Inside Solar Lodge â Outside the Law", York Beach 2007, 31. [Shiva2] "Only one such party was ever held. It was Night on the Nile. It was the grand opening of the newly-restored "Grand Lodge" on Menlo Avenue. It was not to attract newcomers. It was an invitation-only event wherein the close friends and family members of any member was invited. It was hardly expected that any of these people would want to join. The main objective of this "party" was to serve notice on meddlesome friends and family members that had been, overtly or covertly, attempting to dissuade a member away from his/her beliefs and/or associations. I wrote the script for the play ("The Succession of Aeons") and I also put the vodka in the punch bowl. As I was doing so, Frater Shem, under his own direction and free will, poured a big slug of LSD into the same punch bowl. The results were, to say the least, interesting. All of this was contained within a circle and the ceremony (play) include The Invocation of Thoth, which is always considered a big hit. Some of the more interesting results happened after any given "guest" left the circle." Shiva, Liber Disclosum. [Shiva3] "There was no temple at Solar Ranch. There were simply two Quonset huts, some minor out-buildings, and one small travel-trailer. One Quonset was a combined bunkhouse, living room, kitchen .. and yes, ceremonies were performed there. One of them resulting in the UFO story that has not yet been revealed. A thoughtform of a pyramidal temple was certainly in place. But first, the four cornerstones had to be erected. The Quonset complex was only the first cornerstone â the other three never had time to be started. This Quonset complex was indeed the structure that burned, taking with it the vast majority of the archives. This whole destruction would probably have been avoided if the guru had merely hastened to the words that she heard when she meditated upon the next step: "Capricornus [Jean Brayton] withdrew alone several hundred feet into the desert and sat down in meditation. She sought the meaning of the disaster and in response a loud, internal, booming voice said unto her, âThe Gates of Initiation are closed! Send everyone away!â Instead, she said to herself, âI will never send anyone away!â She then returned to the group and proclaimed, âThis is a big problem, but I have decided we will rebuild!â Note: She did not reveal her internal message to me (or anyone else) until six months later! This is the critical juncture where it all started to unravel." â Inside Solar Lodge â Outside the Law Â©2007 [York Beach 2007]. Note: I am choosing not to dispute anon's "bitter" description as he moved on up through the grades; this probably was his experience. Many initiates go through this. However, since he/she was apparently affiliated before the playing of the Atu XVI card (the blasted tower), it might be noted that, at that time, all labor was strictly voluntary. No money was sought. Free, high-quality food was always offered. The "following of unusual instructions" meant performing The Tasks of the Grades as written in their currently-held A.·. A.·. Paper. There was no personal, dictatorship operating. Everybody followed the same curriculum. If one showed up for work, then one had to do what the team leader said. "Put this toilet on that second flatbed trailer over there!" "Jack the car up higher so I can get this engine installed." "Call every rental agency in the phone book and see if they have a water pump we can use to empty this flooded basement." â Just like what happens when you go to work in the outer world. Any bitterness was his/her own, because the rest of us (most of us) were on a roll, generally enjoying every moment of it â except when those moments of personal crisis arose. And that, being handled, it was time to get back to work." Shiva, Liber Disclosum. [Shiva4] "I have seen this quote before. Amusing, isn't it? The neighbors didn't have any statues. They had, essentially, nothing. This was an University area that was on the fringe of the ghetto. Frater Shiva himself (that's me) bought and delivered the various statues that adorned the properties. They came from curio shops on Hollywood Blvd. The neighbors did actually steal a large yellow Buddha statue from us. It was the same one that a certain member who disappeared (from his family and former associates) was cited as "being buried under." Rest easy, for this "murdered" member is one of the eight who still exists (circa 2005 e.v.) within the hidden core group of survivors." Shiva, Liber Disclosum. [Shiva5] "This is absolutely correct. It was a strict A.·. A.·. curriculum within a group that practiced group rites on a regular schedule (weekly). Any discussion of personal practices was supposedly limited to one's "link" (guide) or one's student (downline). Of course, people find it hard to keep their mouths shut and there were frequent reminders about this. Oh Lord! It's like Ashramic discipline â I feel bitter!" Shiva, Liber Disclosum. [149] âA Mr. Jerry Kay [â¦] has told us that it was within a week or two after that date [the robbery of Sascha Germer at September 3, 1967] that the Baytons dragged a trunk or box of material [â¦] into [â¦] both [their] library and temple [â¦] and exhibited, among other things certain ceremonial robes that, from the description, appear to be the Golden Dawn robes of Aleister Crowley.â McMurtry to Lindstrom, October 17, 1970. [150] August 1999, compiled from several emails.

Frater Shiva: "This racism theme is one that keeps coming up. If there was any racism, it must have been in the lower grade levels â where, it should be noted, it probably did exist â just like it exists within almost everyone on this planet - maybe that's why it was "subtle." I was on the council that approved the initiation of a black person. He asked, he did the work, he got admitted. Our operational phrase was "Refuse none." Our neighbors were almost exclusively "people of color." We were invited into their homes on numerous occasions where we were offered tea, coffee and cookies while we discussed our ancestries, various economic distresses and assorted neighborhood problems. "It's those kids down at 1201 who are stealing all the bicycles;" (we discovered a "bicycle shop" in their garage and spoke to their parents). They visited our homes when they had something to impart. All things considered, I think our "racial adjustment" was far more harmonious than most societies were at that time, and even as they are today. I might add that a certain mistrust was present and discussed at all levels: of certain young, black men (never women), unknown to us, in a group of three or more. They could be easily identified by their dress and their bearing. We lived on the edge of the racial abyss. These emissaries of the gangs that lurked just out of our range of sight and influence were decidedly dangerous people. The influence of hard drugs was present in their eyes and they were never friendly. If this is "subtle racism," well, I doubt it. It is 'common sense'." Frater Shiva, Liber Disclosum. [151] On June 10, 1969, a young boy who was living at the Solar Lodge set fire to his bedroom; the fire got out of hand and allegedly âall of Aleister Crowley's written diaries [â¦] had been destroyed in the fireâ (McMurtry to Lindstrom, May 12, 1971, to Lt. Thomas Grammer, May 13, 1971 and to Henry C. Hayes, May 14, 1971). (âno loss, [Germer] sent [Yorke] copies of everything before he died,â McMurtry, Notes on the Brayton Case, 13 June, 1973). He was punished by being locked in a box out at the lodgeâs desert ranch. Police and FBI were called in and scandal in the yellow press ensued, resulting in the Braytons going on the run for eighteen months. Charges against Richard Brayton were eventually dropped due to lack of evidence, while Jean Brayton pleaded no contest to one count of felony child abuse, placed on three years probation and fined $500. [152] List of members of the Brayton group culled from newspapers and personal knowledge by McMurtry, n.d. [153] https://www.parareligion.ch/sunrise/manson.htm. Several occultists have written about these events: Jerry Cornelius in âMyths of the Solar Lodge Revisitedâ (1977) at https://www.parareligion.ch/rf/rf4.htm. Martin Starr in âChaos from Order: Cohesion and Conflict in the Post-Crowley Occult Continuumâ, in âThe Pomegranateâ 8.1, 2006. Frater Shiva in âInside Solar Lodge â Outside the Lawâ, York Beach 2007. [154] Vincent Bugliosi: âHelter Skelterâ, New York,1988, p. 45. [155] FBI file NÂº 88-484755. [156] In 1969 the âWashington Postâ ran a headline âBoy Tells of Chaining by Cultistsâ. Metzger took this newspaper clipping to the American Embassy in Berne, which reported to the Director of the FBI: âHe stated that he was afraid that these people were giving his organization a bad name in the U.S., and he wished to emphasize that they had nothing to do with his society.â [157] It was Manson âFamilyâ member Tex Watson, not Charles Manson. [158] Velle Transcendental Research Association, Inc. vs. Sanders, 518 F. Supp. 512. [159] There is one unusual link between the âFamilyâ and other O.T.O. groups. One member of Mansonâs âFamilyâ called Robert Beausoleil lived for a time with film-maker Kenneth Anger. Before he became embroiled in the Manson affair, Beausoleil had acted the rÃ´le of Lucifer in Anger's film âLucifer Risingâ in 1966. He killed Gary Hinman in 1969. While imprisoned as a result of the murder, Beausoleil occupied his time in composing a musical score for the film. Today, Anger is a IXÂ° of the âCaliphateâ and as a member of the âAreopagusâ of VIIIÂ° members has a say in the Orderâs future. Members of this Areopagus generally give an open ended proxy to William Breeze as âFrater Superiorâ, based on his representations to them, though in fact at any given Areopagus meeting Breeze holds sufficient proxies to cast a majority vote: therefore Kenneth Anger is physically not present at those meetings. [160] Cornelius, âIn The Name of the Beastâ, II, p. 10. [161] âI paid for everything. I had to send him $2,000.00 so he could even get out of D.C.; then I paid for the airplane and the moving van, and I supported him for several years and so on. So, the whole thing, why you have an O.T.O. now, is my fault. (laughing).â â An Interview with Soror Meral â , California 2008, 14 . [162] A different account: âIn April 1967 Phyllis renewed her contact with Grady, sending him a letter. He never replied. In June Phyllis sent him another letter to let him know what she knew about Karl Germer's death. He did not reply to this letter either,â Cornelius, âIn The Name of the Beastâ, II, p. 8. [163] Seckler: âI informed her [Sascha Germer] that my intuition was not to tell the people in Southern California. We discussed that a letter must be written to Mr. Motta. We discussed the people all through Europe that she needed to contact.â Lawyer: âAnd you stated earlier the reason Mr. McMurtry did not get a letter was because you did not have his address?â McMurtry vs. Motta, 14.5.85, pp. 248, 278, The âpeople in Southern Californiaâ were Jean Braytonâs Solar Lodge, according to Seckler. [164] It was a letter to Seckler dated December 19th 1968 in which McMurtry admitted to already knowing of Germerâs death. Cornelius, âIn The Name of the Beastâ, II, pp. 10â11. [165] 25.10. 1963. [166] âI also have this being a constitutionalist that the Caliphate [...] was created on an afternoon of despair, that is to say that it was falling apart, obviously we were not getting the work published, obviously there was no one else there . . . I was all by myself [deep breath] and so I simply decided to commit as it were the great . . . magickal act, of activating Crowleyâs [âCaliphateâ] documents,â transcription of McMurtry speaking at a lodge meeting in spring 1984. [167] Regarding the correspondence between himself, Seckler, Mildred Burlingame and H.P. Smith, McMurtry stated: âI donât remember any in the late '60s until Phyllis Seckler wrote me in 1969.â Question [lawyer]: âWere the letters about O.T.O. matters?â McMurtry: âOh, yes.â Question: âAnd they didnât tell you that Karl Germer had died?â McMurtry: âNo, they didnât know.â Question: âIs it your testimony that Phyllis Seckler did not know that Karl Germer died?â McMurtry: âI said Mildred Burlingame.â Question: âYes, but Phyllis Seckler knew, didn't she?â McMurtry: âShe may very well have known but she wasnât telling anybody until 1969.â Motta vs. Weiser, 15.3.84, 524, quotation from p. 530. [168] McMurtry vs. Motta, 13.5.85, 76, 137: Question: âYou didnât know about Mr. Germer's death until six years after it happened?â McMurtry: âThat is correct. More like seven.â And âI was not informed until 1968 that he had died in 1962,â McMurtry vs. Motta, 14.5.85, p. 190. [169] Motta vs. Weiser, 15.3.84, p. 531. [170] In a court this would be considered perjury, because he was a sworn witness. [171] Statement of Smith in McMurtry vs. Motta, 14.5.85, p. 323. [172] Seckler thought that McMurtry âseemed to think he needed her in order to start up the OTO,â Cornelius, âIn The Name of the Beastâ, II, p. 36. [173] 777lleeheflin.org/939393/index2.html. [174] Llee Heflin in personal emails in July 2000. [175] Kenneth .i. Grant ; : âOutside the Circles of Timeâ, London 1980, p. 94. âIts present Head in the Outer is Aossic-Aiwass 718 [i.e. Grant], who succeeded the Master Therion (Aleister Crowley) in this capacity shortly after the latterâs death in 1947,â p. 286. [176] Symonds and Grant proceeded to publish editions of Crowleyâs works in which copyright existed by reliance upon the claim made by Grant to be the Outer Head. The first book to appear under the Symonds-Grant joint editorship was âThe Confessions of Aleister Crowleyâ which appeared late in 1969. The dust jacket of this publication stated that Grant âtook over the British Branch of the Ordo Templi Orientis and is now the Head of the Order.â [177] Israel Regardie wrote to Weschcke in reference to McMurtry, âsome while ago, I told him that when my present commitments about re-introducing Crowley were done with, I wanted to back out of the scene altogether.â [178] Later, McMurtry was upset when the âCaliph cardâ disappeared from some editions of the Thoth deck. [179] Motta vs. Weiser, 14.3.84, p. 512. âMrs. Germer took an extreme dislike to me and even refused to shake my hand the last time I saw her and was quite paranoid about my position,â p. 514. [180] On 24th January 1949 the administration was granted to Frieda Harris by the High Court of Justice, though limited for the purposes property and effects, including copyrights, of and in connection with Crowleyâs profession as a writer. Likewise on 21st January 1949 for John Symonds. On 1st March 1971 the limited net value of the estate was rated at Â£100. [181] Regardie remained on friendly terms with Metzger. In the 1980s, Regardie still saw in Metzger a âgood friendâ and the O.T.O.âs âEuropean representative,â Regardie to Julijan Naskov, 22 February 1980 and 23 August 1982. [182] Metzgerâs âManifestoâ was bilingual in English and German. McMurtry had the English translation checked. A report of 7 pages comments on its quality: âThe German part seems to have been written by a person or persons who had very little if any education and could perhaps have been a translation from the English to German using a dictionary and some rudimentary knowledge of German,â Fra. S. to .i. McMurtry ; , no date or place. [183] Montenegro had provided the Swiss, including Oscar Schlag, with sufficient information about the members of AgapÃ©. [184] Motta vs. Weiser, 1.3.84, p. 167. [185] Quoted in Grant to Euclydes Lacerda de Almeida, 29.10.77. [186] Motta to Euclydes L. de Almeida, 10.12.71. [187] .i. Yorke ; to Helen .i. Parsons ; - .i. Smith ; , letter of 17.10.1971. Although the âCaliphateâ as a whole accepted Yorkeâs expert status, on this occasion Heidrick used similar wording in the trial of McMurtry vs. Motta. On 15th May 1985, when asked whether Yorkeâs statement was âreliableâ he countered with âNonsense. That's utter nonsense,â pp. 600, 617. Additionally, a friend of Yorke commented that the McMurtry tarot-deck âwas still a touchy subject for Gerald in his last years and one case where I felt he thought he had made a mistake. And then Grady got more and more into being a hippy guru and started adÂ­opting mannerisms and jingoisms that he did not really wear well: I remember Gerald squirming over some photos of Grady in psychedelic garb and wondering what all this âgroovyâ âfreakyâ and âfar outâ stuff meant. [â¦] it was obvious that Grady was not doing the drugs, they were doing him. [â¦] During most of this time Regardie had seen Metzger as the man and had even received a letter from Metzger stating that he (Regardie) was entitled to edit and publish Crowley material. I did see a letter from Regardie to Yorke where Grady was described as a drunken incompetent. [â¦] It is ironical that it was Motta who forced disparate people such as H.P. Smith, Phyllis Seckler, Kenneth Anger and Grady to band together and form an uncertain truce which has now been sealed by the ever-resourceful Mr. Breeze in one big business arrangement,â Hilmar Ãrn Hilmarsson, email dated 30 December 1998. [188] In May 1993 H.P. Smith registered herself as âPresident of [!] Rex Summus Sanctissimus of the Church of Thelema.â Martin Starr became âSecretary.â Helen Parsons-Smith died in 2003. According to the California Business Portal, the current head of the â Rex Summus Sanctissimus Of The Church Of Thelema â (which is its corporate name) is Philip Smith. [189] Seckler, âITCâ III;4, p. 39. Crowley to Hugh George de Willmott Newman: âI never wrote any ritual of ordination and such things, and I am certainly not going to start at my time of life,â 24.9.1944. The O.T.O. under Crowley was founÂ­ded on TheÂ­lema, not the Roman Catholic Church. Crowley was not a Bishop of the Gnostic CathoÂ­lic Church and never ordained or consecrated anyone or anything . All pre-existing Masonic orders were considered to be subsumed within the O.T.O., and so he had no need of them. For Crowley, âGnosticâ equalled âThelemicâ. â The âCaliphateâ-Gnostic Church parodies the Roman Catholic traditions in introducing offices like Patriarch, Archbishop, Bishop, Priest/Priestess and Deacon (Priest and Deacon already appear in Reussâ/Crowley's Gnostic Mass of the 1910s). Nowadays, they offer services like: Baptism Ceremony for a Child, Baptism Ceremony for an Adult, Confirmation Ceremony, Ceremony for Ordination of a Deacon, A Wedding Ceremony, A Ceremony for a Greater Feast for Death, A Basic Exorcism Rite (there seems to be a growing emphasis on exorcism), A Ceremony for Visitation and Administration of the Virtues to the Sick; they have a growing Saintship and Animal Benefictions (once at scarletwoman.org /soter/beastb.htm). Christian prayers are attached also to the âCaliphateâ-VÂ°-ritual: The Litany of the Holy Name of Jesus, The Litany of St. Joseph and The Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary. These prayers (that is, the initiation rituals) are accompanied by music of Mozart, Holst, Strauss, Mahler and the like. [190] Paradoxically, a ânon-profit corporationâ in the USA is permitted to make a profit. The ânon-profitâ part simply means nobody gets more than a reasonable salary and that benefits are provided in a limited manner according to law. âNon-profitâ is a misleading term for such corporations, since it just means non-profit in this very narrow sense. [191] Cornelius, âIn The Name of the Beastâ, II, p. 154. [192] .i. Motta ; : âOriflammeâ VI;3, Nashville 1983, p. xiv. [193] Israel .i. Regardie ; : âGems from the Equinoxâ, Arizona 1974, p. xxxiii, foreword written on 31.3.1970. [194] .i. Regardie ; : âThe Legend of Aleister Crowleyâ, Arizona 1983, p. 162. âI was going to ignore the whole thing, remembeÂ­ring that Karl Germer had expelled Kenneth Grant from the O.T.O. but I have decided otherwise,â Regardie to the co-editor of âMezlaâ 3.8.73, facsimile in âSothisâ I;2, September 1977, p. 71. [195] Seckler, âITCâ II;2, 1978, p. 13. [196] âGnostica News,â October 1974. âMezlaâ III;1, NY 1985, p. 5. âNuit-Isisâ I;4, Oxford 1988, p. xxiv. [197] Wasserman cited a letter from Motta: âThat Mr. Weiser was a Jew and that Mrs. Germer was also a Jew merely compounds the outrage in my eyes,â McMurtry vs. Motta, 15.5.85, p. 394. [198] Wasserman in McMurtry vs. Motta, 15.5.85, p. 380. [199] Motta to Frau Germer, 15.8.74. [200] Weschcke once was a part of the Paracletian Church mostly as a favor to authors Denning and Phillips (Leon & Vivian Barcynski) who had taken it up, but they were the bishops, not Weschcke. Regardie wrote to Weschcke: âI am rather fed up with writingâ and âI really feel through with writing, Carl; I am fed up to the gills with it.â Also, in reference to McMurtry, âsome while ago, I told him that when my present commitments about re-introducing Crowley were done with, I wanted to back out of the scene altogether.â Later, however, on July 6, 1973, Regardie wrote complaining about âa number of young squirts are getting on the bandwagon and are preparing to flood the market with cheap, poorly edited editions of some of Crowleyâs material. Frankly, I would hate to see some of them bring out an edition of âThe Law is for Allâ before you do.â