Academic literature on the topic 'Teater. ordbok'

Abstract This chapter discusses how issues of the “Sex Questions” thwarted harmony among the Vancouver members of the Ordo Templi Orientis. Wilfred Talbot Smith begins to practice sexual magic. Aleister Crowley’s “Gnostic Catholic Mass” begins to circulate among the OTO. Its origins and the Neo-Gnosticism of the Gnostic Catholic Church of the OTO are explored. The previously unchartered relationship between Crowley and George Winslow Plummer (1876–1944), along with Plummer’s Rosicrucian school, order, and church are explored as the source for Crowley’s episcopal standing. Crowley rekindles his arguments against the post-Blavatsky leaders in Theosophy and their support of Krishnamurti as the “World Teacher,” which role Crowley claimed for himself as the prophet of Thelema. The massive disruption occasioned by Jones’s “Great Initiation” in December 1917 sets the stage for Jones’s ultimate liberation from Crowley’s mentorship.

Abstract This chapter details the efforts of Charles Stansfeld Jones and Wilfred Talbot Smith to develop an Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO) lodge in British Columbia from the materials created by Aleister Crowley. Crowley’s “Law of Thelema” is integrated into the OTO, transforming it from a masonic order which covertly admitted women to a religious society premised on the apocalyptic revelations of Thelema and Crowley’s central role as its prophet. The movement in closest parallel to Thelema was Theosophy, with its significantly larger body of adherents, its own emerging World Teacher, its own esoteric church, and its own form of esoteric masonry open to men and women, Co-Masonry. Jones uncovers the OTO secrets of sexual magic, followed by the recognition of his achievement of the grade of “Master of the Temple,” a level of attainment immediately below that of Crowley.