Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.) Order of Oriental Templars

Gethsemane Camp is a duly - chartered fraternal local body of Ordo Templi Orientis. Its activities entail the teaching of Magick in Theory and Practice according to the Curriculum which Aleister Crowley outlined in his writings.  Read More

 The letters O.T.O. represent the words Ordo Templi Orientis (Order of the Temple of the Orient, or Oriental Templars), but they have also a secret meaning for initiates. The Order does not proselytize, nor does it seek actively new members. However, those who aspire with sincerity and modestly will be welcome in the O.T.O. Read More

 Let us begin at the beginning. What is a Dramatic Ritual? It is a celebration of the Adventures of the God whom it is intended to invoke. (The Bacchae of Euripides is a perfect example of this.) Now, in the O.T.O., the object of the ceremonies being the Initiation of the Candidate, it is he whose Path in Eternity is displayed in dramatic form. Read More

There have always been, at least in nucleus, three main Schools of Philosophical practice [...] Read More

 Magick investigates the laws of Nature with the idea of making use of them. It only differs from “profane” science by always keeping ahead of it. As Fraser has shown, Magick is science in the tentative stage; but it may be, and often is, more than this. It is science which, for one reason or another, cannot be declared to the profane. Read More

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