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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.Includes essays by Grand Master Shiva X° and Australian O.T.O leaders, as well as commentary by Grand Master Phanes X° (Grand Lodge of Italy) and Polish O.T.O. leader Krzysztof Azarewicz of LAShTAL Press Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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The prohibitive majority of the content in this volume was written by Australian Grand Master Shiva X°, which is consistent with the original periodical that often contained long articles from the Austral Throne. The rationale for the sequence of the selections is not entirely clear to me; they are certainly not chronological. (And for that matter, the date of each article is given at its end, and I would have appreciated seeing these citations at the top of each piece and/or in the table of contents.)
Many of the pieces are concerned with organizational and institutional issues, highlighting the distinctive Australian approach to implementing the constitutional legacy of OTO and its component rites. While they are doubtless invaluable to all members of the Australian Grand Lodge, readers in other countries are most likely to find these pieces useful and engaging if they have already begun to serve in roles of national leadership such as those associated with the Second Triad. OTO-EGC clergy should certainly read the several articles regarding EGC organization and sacramental philosophy, in that they detail an approach distinct from the one in the US, with no less fidelity to the mysteries of the rite.
Two of the longest and most rewarding articles are set near the end of the book, under the byline of Stephen J. King. The first of these is "Apocalypsis 418," an exploratory doctrinal piece which should be of tremendous value to any serious Thelemite. Its significance relates at least as much to A.'.A.'. as it does to OTO, and it includes cross-references not only to the two volumes of Daniel Gunther's Inward Journey, but to three different volumes by Shiva X° in preparation. In significant connection with this particular essay, I would suggest reading To Take Place by Jonathan Z. Smith as well as Henri Corbin's "The Imago Templi in Confrontation with Secular Norms" (in Temple and Contemplation).
The second King article is "Temple Mount: The Oriental Templar Crusade for Verità." This paper was clearly the result of a compositional process originally aimed at and emerging from the Academia Ordo Templi Orientis conference at Monte Verità in Ascona, Switzerland in 2017, although it doesn't report what form it had been in at that earlier time, and it saw publication in the fiftieth and final issue of OZ in late 2018. It is concerned with Past Frater Superior Theodor Reuss' efforts in Switzerland and their durable effects in the countercultural milieu of Ascona and later Eranos. While there is some measure of speculation involved in this study, there is also a wealth of positive historical detail to support it. The conclusions offered regarding the history of ideas make this paper valuable not just to scholars of OTO history, but to any Thelemites seeking to understand the logical (and possibly genetic) relationship of our doctrines to other intellectual and cultural streams with which they are in clear resonance.
I recommend this book as a useful addition to the library of any chartered OTO body or individual initiate, as well as for students of Thelema generally.