Grand Lodge of Australia

ORDO TEMPLI ORIENTIS

Being a dynamic social laboratory Ordo Templi Orientis has produced many creative publications.

In 2020 e.v., OTO Australia quietly launched a publishing imprint “In Perpetuity Publishing” to ensure continuity of publications for future generations. New printing technologies allow inexpensive reprints of our previous projects, making them accessible and affordable to scholars and the simply curious for all time to come. .

Currently Available

Descent from the Cross: Transformation of a Masochistic Woman

Descent from the Cross

Transformation of a Masochistic Woman Paperback
by Elaine Simard LaForêt

In Perpetuity Publishing (Australia)
May 2024 e.v. 
ISBN 978-0645103953

Elaine’s thesis “Descent from the Cross: Transformation of a Masochistic Woman” marked the completion of her psychoanalytic degree at the C.G. Jung Institute of New York. She has practiced psychoanalysis for many years, taught at the C. G. Jung Institute of New Mexico, and presented public lectures (one is entitled “The Symbol of the Cross: Revitalizing the Balanced Cross of Nature”) and classes and workshops for the public. She has a BA from Wellesley College and an MA from Harvard University in literature, psychology, and teaching.

Ora et Labora

An OTO Research Journal
Volume 4

In Perpetuity Publishing (Australia)
March 2023 e.v. 
ISBN 978-0645103977

Volume IV with wide-ranging and highly eclectic essays from around the world, Ora Et Labora gathers together the research and findings of the practitioner-scholars of Thelema being released in March 2023 e.v.

The Ora et Labora project is a 21C Aussie OTO religious-tech incubation, innovation and design hub for OTOX (the OTO Experience). Catering for new content and context in the Thelemic universe of discourse, Ora et Labora embraces authors at different stages of their writing and research journeys, advocating the collegial-fraternal exchange of ideas (rather than battle). It takes the community back to basics, pure and simple. We pray and we work. (Or if you like, “be our bed in working!” and “inflame thyself in praying”)

Shiva X° (from the back blurb of Volume IV)

Living in the Sunlight: Making a Forgotten Meditation an Atomic Habit

Living in the Sunlight

Making a Forgotten Meditation an Atomic Habit

In Perpetuity Publishing (Australia)
September 2022 e.v. 
ISBN 978-0645103946

Dedicated to the exposition of a deceptively simple meditation practice, the book’s clear and unassuming narrative is brimful with initiated knowledge and steeped in the esoteric lore of Ordo Templi Orientis and Aleister Crowley’s Thelema.

 

 

Ora et Labora

An OTO Research Journal
Volume 3

In Perpetuity Publishing (Australia)
March 2022 e.v. 
ISBN 978-0645103922

Volume III with wide-ranging and highly eclectic essays from around the world, Ora Et Labora gathers together the research and findings of the practitioner-scholars of Thelema being released in March 2022 e.v.

Today, the Order boasts a worldwide community of scholar-practitioners looking into the theory, practice, worship, antecedents, ethics and morality of Thelema, together with OTO constitutional design, as well as its ecclesiastical and magical practice

Shiva X° (from the Preface of Volume I)

The Legend of Aleister Crowley

In Perpetuity Publishing (Australia)
September 2021 e.v.
ISBN 978-0645103939

This facsimile edition of P. R. Stephensen’s 1930 broadside against the ‘Campaign of Personal Vilification Unparalleled in Literary History’ arrives in 2021 as the mainstream media thrashes in its death throes. Quality digital scans of the original book, never before published material from the Australian OTO archives, as well as a new essay examining the politics of conspiracy and the pathologies of Fake News, make this an indispensable case study of media malfeasance and moral panic.

Some years ago, Crowley was selected by the scavengers of the gutter press as an object for the most neurotic, viperous, and blackguardly ad hominem “campaign” ever waged, even in the disgusting history of British sensational journalism.

From the previously unpublished Introduction
P.R. Stephensen

Ora et Labora

An OTO Research Journal
Volume 1-2

In Perpetuity Publishing (Australia)
March 2021 e.v.
ISBN 978-0645103908 (Volume 1)
ISBN 978-0645103915 (Volume II)

Originally released with two volumes, Ora Et Labora features new research, and previously difficult to obtain essays from Italy, Australia, Poland, USA, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, Austria, Japan, Sweden, and India.

Best of OZ

Ordo Templi Orientis (Australia)
March 2020 e.v. 
ISBN 9780646815770

After 13 years and 50 Issues, OTO Grand Lodge of Australia is making its member-only OZ magazine available to the public in this best of compilation. Inspiring and provocative, OZ chronicles the birth and early development of the Australian Grand Lodge experiment in thought leadership, scholarship, culture and magical design.

Previously Available

The Legend of Aleister Crowley

Helios Books and Ordo Templi Orientis (Australia)
2007
ISBN 0975773399

Originally published by the Mandrake Press in 1930, this is the first modern edition authorized by the Stephensen estate and makes substantial use of surviving Stephensen papers from the period.

Stephensen would describe The Legend of Aleister Crowley as both a “short literary biography” and “a study of the documentary evidence relating to a campaign of personal vilification unparalleled in literary history.”

This new edition includes the first publication of the opening “Epistle” that was suppressed from the first edition as being too risky. It comes with a comprehensive introductory narrative by Stephen J. King, a senior member of the Australian O.T.O., which provides the background to The Legend, and examines the press campaigns against Crowley, the history of the Mandrake Press, the Stephensen/Crowley collaboration, and Stephensen’s ongoing association with Crowley’s colleagues Karl Germer, Gerald Yorke and Israel Regardie after Crowley’s death.

Also included is a collection of Aleister Crowley’s autobiographical newspaper articles, 1933-35.

This new edition makes available an important if often overlooked book—the only biography written during Crowley’s life that addressed his character and the press campaigns against him.

Waratah 3

Star Building

House 418
2006
ISSN 13229389

A beautifully presented journal, produced by House 418, the publishing arm of the O.T.O. in Australia. It includes ten essays centered around the OTO, magick and Thelema, eight of which were written by Frater Numa, a major figure in the development of the O.T.O. in Australia, and one each by Fratres Soma 156 and Baltan

Logos Mantram Magic

Helios Books
2005

Dr. Arnoldo Krumm-Heller (1876-1949) was a seminal figure in early twentieth century western esotercism. A Rosicrucian mystic, occultist and healer, Krumm-Heller was a student of Theodor Reuss, ‘Papus’, and Aleister Crowley, amongst others, and worked tirelessly throughout Central and South America opening Rosicrucian lodges of the organization he founded, the Fraternitas Rosicruciana Antiqua (F.R.A.). Logos Mantram Magic, first published in Spanish in 1930, records Krumm-Heller’s ‘logos’ teachings on mantra, vibration, astral travel and communication with celestial beings. This is the first English translation.

This edition was prepared in Sydney, Australia, by Dr Kumm-Heller’s son, Parsival Krumm-Heller and Stephen J. King, in association with Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.) Australia.

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Oceanic Currents

House 418
2004
ISSN 013229389

A beautifully produced and illustrated journal produced by members of the Oceania Lodge of the Ordo Templi Orientis. Much of the text and art work is by former Lodge Master Barry Hale, whose work has since appeared in Fulgur publications. The journal includes details of magical workings, art, prose, and poetry.

The Waratah

Waratah Press
1996