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...
by Grand Secretary General (GSG) | Sep 16, 2020 | Art, Events
Dark Mofo held in Tasmania each Winter has fast become the most exciting and well attended arts, music and culture festival in the Southern Hemisphere. OTO Australia has a long running relationship with the festival culminating in an OTO heavy presence in 2018’s...
