by Grand Secretary General (GSG) | Apr 24, 2026 | Art, Crowley, History, Information
A Rare OTO Archival Restoration by Crave Book Restorations. Stanley, Tasmania From Ruin to Readability — A Book Reborn Across Generations There are books, and then there are artefacts. This restoration project — a volume of The Equinox, Vol 3. Number 1.— sits...
by Grand Secretary General (GSG) | Apr 21, 2026 | Publishing
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. We are very pleased to announce the release of Baphomet: Guardian of the Key to the Temple, available from 18th April, 2026. Baphomet: Guardian of the Key to the Temple is the third monograph to be published by In...
by Grand Secretary General (GSG) | Sep 18, 2025 | Ora Et Labora, Publishing
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. We are very pleased to announce the release of Ora et Labora Volume V, available from 19th September, with its official launch at the September Equinox. This special fifth volume shifts focus to the theme “Thelema and...
by Grand Secretary General (GSG) | Mar 10, 2025 | History, Information, Lecture
The Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) Building in Sydney The Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) Building in Sydney holds a special place in the history of Ordo Templi Orientis in Australia. This historic location was not only a meeting place for various...
by Grand Secretary General (GSG) | Jul 24, 2024 | Crowley, Information, Lecture
Veni Cooper-Mathieson Born Amanda Melvina Cooper in Maitland, New South Wales, on October 4, 1867, Sister Veni Cooper-Mathieson was a leading exponent of New Thought philosophy and an important figure in the development of Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO) in Australia. As...
by Grand Secretary General (GSG) | Jun 2, 2024 | Crowley, Information
Frater Progradior, Frank Bennet On Sydney’s lower North Shore, a short stroll from the hallowed grounds of North Sydney Oval, home of foundation rugby league club the North Sydney Bears, sits an unassuming, single-storey duplex. In the early decades of the 20th...
by Grand Secretary General (GSG) | Apr 29, 2024 | Art, Information, Podcast, Publishing
On May 1st, 2024, the Grand Lodge of Australia is celebrating the release of Descent from the Cross: The Transformation of a Masochist Woman by Elaine Simard LaForêt. Seeing the book edited, designed, produced, and released in the two months since Elaine passed in...
by Grand Secretary General (GSG) | Apr 1, 2024 | Art, Crowley, Publishing
Vols 1 and 2 of the Hagiography (Mandrake Press edition, 1929) Australian publisher Percy Reginald Stephensen (1901-1965) or ‘Inky’ as he was known, was Aleister Crowley’s publisher at the Mandrake Press in London over 1929-30. If it were not for Mandrake’s collapse...
by Grand Secretary General (GSG) | Mar 4, 2024 | Art, Crowley, Information
The race for the Melbourne Cup – rounding the turn by the river, 1883; wood engraving published in the Illustrated Australian news. State Library Victoria. On 6 January 1927, Aleister Crowley wrote to an unnamed woman in Australia who he simply addressed as “Dear and...
by Grand Secretary General (GSG) | Jan 9, 2024 | Art, Crowley, Information
(Source “Dame Edna at the royal wedding,”Aurelien Guichard, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons) A little-known fact about the late Australian comedy legend, Barry Humphries (1934-2023) – renowned for his iconic portrayal of the flamboyant Dame Edna Everage...
