Mr.
What is Freemasonry?
An Excerpt on the
Reconstituted O.T.O.
from his Confessions
What follows is Crowley's own account of his motivations and methods
in reconstructing the O.T.O. and its rituals. It is excerpted from The
Confessions of Aleister Crowley, pp. 700-n-704. In this excerpt
Crowley discusses his revision of the ``Oasis'' initiation rituals of
Oø-n-IIIø. His explanatory introduction to these revised rituals, as
presented to then-Frater Superior Merlin Peregrinus Xø when the
reforms were proposed, appears elsewhere in this issue.--H.B.
``WHAT IS FREEMASONRY?'' I collated the rituals and their secrets,
much as I had done the religions of the world, with their magical and
mystical bases. As in that case, I decided to neglect what it too
often actually was. It would be absurd to judge Protestantism by the
political acts of Henry VIII. In the same was, I could not judge
masonry by the fact that it had denounced the Concordat. I proposed to
define......
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