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...
