Note to update: the addresses and phone numbers in these issues of the Thelema Lodge Calendars are obsolete since the closing of the Lodge. They are here for historic purposes only and should not be visited or called.
Thelema Lodge
Ordo Templi Orientis
P.O.Box 2303
Berkeley, CA 94702 USA
April 1987 e.v. at Thelema Lodge
Announcements from
Lodge Members and Officers
The various classes and rituals continue at Thelema Lodge in April: Tarot,
Enochiana, Egyptiana, Gnostic Masses, Initiations and more. See the calendar
for dates, times and phone numbers to call. Our classes are free, but your
donations help keep them that way.
For Members from Minerval through IVth Degree, except for initiators, no
immediate changes. This phase of the reconstruction of the O.T.O. was largely
complete under the previous Caliph. As the middle Degree bodies activate, there will be some impact on the Man of Earth Degrees, but much of what is
coming will take the form of gradually improved performance in areas already
laid out. Initiators will be receiving instructions and new forms for
reporting, as a result of enhancement of the role of Grand Secretary General.
New procedures will come from the Electoral College (USA) or the Grand
Secretary General by proper notice. Until then initiators should continue to
report as before. It is intended that the Initiation Secretary at the JAF
7666 Box in New York act as a central receiver for such reports, but business
as usual is the watch-word if there is any unanswered question of what goes
where.
Above IVth Degree, a major effort is underway to accelerate compliance with
Crowley's design for O.T.O., as manifest in the Blue Equinox. Nearly all of
the various administrative and governmental bodies related to these Degrees
have been described and mandated in the new Bylaws. Their full implementation
will wait on adequate membership in these Degrees, but the IXth Degree will be
filling VIIIth Degree commitments in part as of now. Until the intermediate
degrees fill in a bit more, the new Supreme Council will oversee some of the
business appropriate to them. In implementing the Blue Equinox, financial
matters were felt to change too much with time and place to justify activation
of the 1919 e.v. practices. Crowley was a mystic and a genius, but he was
always the first to admit that money management lay utterly beyond his
competence. Vows of poverty and operation of loan and living services are
really outside the present goals of the O.T.O. There are serious
considerations of Thelemic independence of individuals, legal limitations and
capital funds that make these and some other ideas of communal finance
inappropriate for the foreseeable future. Profess Houses and similar
institutions of retreat will someday be implemented on a voluntary basis.
There have been major changes in the highest councils of the O.T.O. The
Supreme Council is no longer elected every two years, and is now composed of
three members instead of seven. It has been re-named "National Supreme
Council", and is presided over by a National Grand Master who has powers of
appointment and removal of the other two members of this body. These other
two officers remain the Grand Secretary General and the Grand Treasurer
General, although the prefix "National" might be appropriate in some
circumstances. In addition to these three, there is a fourth officer, also
appointed. This is the Deputy National Grand Master, and his duties are to
fulfill the role of the National Grand Master under certain circumstances and
subject to certain limits as a sort of vice-president. The National Grand
Master is Hymenaeus Beta, the Caliph. The GTG and GSG offices are still being
filled by the same individuals. International implications will be addressed
briefly below. The Supreme Council has effectively been redefined along the
lines of the 1917 e.v. O.T.O. Constitution from the Th. Reuss days.
IXth Degree voting franchise has been transferred to the VIIIth Degree
Areopagus, with the proviso that any IXth Degree can enter this body through
right of demand. In effect, one individual O.T.O. member gained the vote, and
no one lost it.
USA is a temporary base, as far as the international direction of O.T.O. is
concerned. Under the new Bylaws, the USA National Grand Master is only acting
O.H.O. for the international O.T.O. until more Xth Degrees can be established
elsewhere. These Xth Degree National Heads will be appointed by the Caliph
when appropriate. As soon as the minimum number of five Xth Degrees is
reached, those Xth Degrees can call for election of the full Outer Head of the
Order. They may delay if they see fit. In the mean time, the Caliph is the
acting O.H.O. and at least for the present, also the USA Xth Degree. Because
of the role of IXth Degrees from the McMurtry years in electing the present
Caliph, the original IXth Degrees who participated in that election have the
power to remove and replace this acting O.H.O. There are additional details,
but that is the basic situation at present.
On the whole, each succeeding year has seen improvement. Many of the limitations put on the past Caliph were not so much constraints on him as
protections for him. Grady McMurtry skillfully used "the rules" to avoid
undue pressure and to insure a successor. With a younger Caliph and the
progress made in the last 10 years, it's definitely time to take some of the
canvas covers off the throne. I have been the architect of much of what has
been set up in the last few years. I support the new Bylaws, and the
restoration of national office. These Bylaws are an experimental model for
other lands. After a period of review and correction, the Bylaws will be made
available to those who need to study them. Later this year the European
theater will have IVth degrees, and regional coordination is likely to be set
up by then. While the USA O.T.O. works the kinks out of intermediate degree
governmental bodies, international O.T.O. members will be promoted on merit to
advance adoption of these same levels outside the USA.
Bill Heidrick, Grand Treasurer General for the USA and acting GTG for International O.T.O. |
In the Continuum is packed full with articles on Ritual, Philosophy,
Psychology, Thelemic History, Poetry, Qabalah, Tarot, Astrology and much more.
It is a good idea to collect all the issues, as much of the material by
Crowley and others is serialized. There are 10 issues in Vol. I, 12 issues in
Vol. II, 10 issues in Vol. III. Each issue is $4.00 payment with order, and
this sum covers the expense of mailing. Please make checks payable to Phyllis
Seckler. Write to P.O. Box 415, Oroville, CA 95965
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{Note to Web edition: The above information is now quite dated and almost all address, phone number and modem/email information has changed. Included only for historic reasons. Don't try any of these now.}
4/3/87 | Abrahadabra Camp meeting | Abrahadabra C. | ||
4/3/87 | Selene Camp meets most Fridays | Selene Camp | ||
4/4/87 | Rose Croix with Degree Initiation | R+C | ||
NEXT MONTH Call Lola | ||||
4/5/87 | Gnostic Mass Class 4PM Ritual 6PM | Thelema Ldg | ||
4/8/87 | Liber AL Day #1 The 1st chapter | Thelema Ldg | ||
Call for details | ||||
4/9/87 | Liber AL Day #2 The 2nd chapter | Ankh-Af-Na-Khonsu L. | ||
Call for details | ||||
4/10/87 | Liber AL Day #3 The 3rd chapter | Nuit-Urania O. | ||
Call for details | ||||
4/11/87 | Initiations Minerval and IIIrd degrees | Thelema Ldg | ||
Call for time and place | ||||
4/12/87 | Gnostic Mass Class 4PM Ritual 6PM | Thelema Ldg | ||
4/13/87 | Full Moon Ritual and Lodge meeting | Thelema Ldg | ||
4/14/87 | Class on Chrystals with Chandria 8PM | Thelema Ldg | ||
4/15/87 | Tarot Divination with Bill 8PM | Thelema Ldg | ||
(Special subject & Celtic Cross) | ||||
4/17/87 | Abrahadabra Camp meeting | Abrahadabra C. | ||
4/17/87 | Leather Guild FGIGF Event | |||
4/18/87 | Initiations to KEW tentatively set | Thelema Ldg | ||
call to confirm. | ||||
4/19/87 | Gnostic Mass Class 4PM Ritual 6PM | Thelema Ldg | ||
4/21/87 | Enochiana Class "Tablets of Union" | Thelema Ldg | ||
with David 8PM | ||||
4/22/87 | Tarot Divination with Bill 8PM | Thelema Ldg | ||
Exaustive study of one Major Trump & | ||||
Tree of Life Divination | ||||
4/23/87 | Exopsychology Guild discussion & | |||
Flying Ointment workshop | ||||
call for location | ||||
4/25/87 | Initiations Ist & IInd deg | Thelema Ldg | ||
call for details | ||||
4/26/87 | Gnostic Mass Class 4PM Ritual 6PM | Thelema Ldg | ||
4/29/87 | Egyptiana Class with Ebony 8PM | Thelema Ldg |
The viewpoints and opinions expressed herein are the responsibility of the
contributing authors and do not necessarily reflect the position of OTO or its
officers.
Note to update: the addresses and phone numbers in these issues of the Thelema Lodge Calendars are obsolete since the closing of the Lodge. They are here for historic purposes only and should not be visited or called.