Item #69783 Success Is Your Proof: One Hundred Years of O.T.O. in North America; A Festschrift in Honor of Hymenaeus Beta, Celebrating 30 Years of Leadership. Lita-Luise CHAPPELL, Cynthia Crosse, Vere Chappell, Frater Taos, Robert Buratti, Frater Taos., Aleister Crowley: related works.

Success Is Your Proof: One Hundred Years of O.T.O. in North America; A Festschrift in Honor of Hymenaeus Beta, Celebrating 30 Years of Leadership

New York, NY: Sekmet Books, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 200pp. Deep green cloth with gilt lettering to spine, List of Contributors with short bios, b&w illustrations. From the publisher: "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." Contents: Editors’ Introduction; Raise high the roof beam, carpenters! Hymenaeus! by Shiva X°; Thinking Backwards, Looking Forwards: On Time, History, and Magical Memory, with Special Reference to the O.T.O. Centennial in Canada and North America by Frater Iskandar; The New Aeon in the New World: The Law of Liberty in the Wild West by James Wasserman; Old Aeon Origins: The O.T.O. and A.'. A.'. before Thelema by Vere Chappell; From Amati to America by Cynthia Crosse; Gathered Into Their Fold by Phanes X°; Panic in Detroit: The Rise and Fall of a North American Supreme Grand Council (Almost) by Richard Kaczynski; The Alpha & Omega of Initiation: Aleister Crowley, Charles Stansfeld Jones, and the Way of Duplexity by AISh MLChMH; Charles Stansfeld Jones and the Universal Brotherhood by Frater Taos; Bizarre Sons: Charles Stansfeld Jones and Malcolm Lowry by M. Dionysius Rogers; "It Was Acceptable in the Eighties": A Brief Account of the Reconstitution of O.T.O. in the UK in the 1980s by Clive Harper; A Historical Overview of the Rites of Eleusis by Lita-Luise Chappell; Notes Toward a Bibliography of Works Edited or Introduced by Hymenaeus Beta; Contributors. Appears unread - thus near Fine condition in lightly edgely rubbed unclipped VG+ dust jacket. Dust now protected in mylar cover. Item #69783
ISBN: 9780986336522

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