11:40 P.M. I feel easier, but over excited. Gauguin literally torments me; I feel as if by my own choice of exile rather than toleration of the bourgeois, I am invoking him, and this painting of my house seems a sort of religious-magical rite, like the Egyptian embalmers’, but of necromancy. I would he might
Comments Off on An extract from Crowley’s diaries (1921 – Cefalù)by T. Apiryon Jules Doinel and The Gnostic Church of France The founder of the Gnostic Church was Jules-Benoît Stanislas Doinel du Val-Michel (1842-1903). Doinel was a librarian, a Grand Orient Freemason, an antiquarian and a practicing Spiritist. In his frequent attempts at communication with spirits, he was confronted with a recurring vision of Divine
Comments Off on History of the Gnostic Catholic Church(1876 -1949 e.v.) by Sabazius (based on a conversation with Parsival Krumm-Heller on September 7, 1994 e.v., and subsequent correspondence) Arnoldo (born Arnold) Krumm-Heller was born in Salchendorf, Germany on April 15, 1876. He left Germany at the age of 16 to join his brother at his brother’s farm in the interior of Argentina; but
Comments Off on Dr. Arnoldo Krumm-Heller33° 90° 95° IX° (1838 – 1912 e.v.) by T. Apiryon Copyright © 1995 Ordo Templi Orientis. All rights reserved. Franz Hartmann was a Bavarian-American physician, occultist, and one of the co-founders of O.T.O., along with Carl Kellner, Theodor Reuss, Henry Klein and Charles Détré. He served in the Bavarian artillery in his youth and
Comments Off on Dr. Franz HartmannThe Great Announcement. This is the Book of the Showing Forth of Voice-and-Name from the Thought of the Great Power, the Boundless. Wherefore shall it be sealed up, and hidden, and veiled, and shall be laid in the Habitation wherein the Root of the Worlds is established. Unto you, therefore, I say what I say,
Comments Off on A Fragment of the Apophasis Megalê of Simon MagusSir (Edward Alexander) Aleister Crowley (1875 e.v. – Ixxi e.n.) by T. Apiryon English poet, painter, mountaineer, magician, and prophet, the physical vehicle of TO MEGA THERION. Head of A∴ A∴ and head of O.T.O. in the English-speaking world under Reuss, and Reuss’s successor as O.H.O of O.T.O. Crowley wrote Liber XV, the Gnostic Mass,
Comments Off on Sir Aleister CrowleyDoctor Albert Karl Theodor Reuss 33° 90° 96° X° by T. Apiryon Theodor Reuss was an Anglo-German tantric occultist, utopian socialist, journalist, singer, and promoter of Women’s Liberation; and the successor to Carl Kellner as head of O.T.O. Reuss was born the son of an innkeeper at Augsburg on June 28, 1855 e.v. He was
Comments Off on Doctor Theodor Reuss(1865 – 1916 e.v.) by T. Apiryon Gérard Encausse, usually known by his pseudonym “Papus,” was a Spanish-born French physician, hypnotist, and popularizer of occultism. Encausse’s pseudonym “Papus” was taken from Lévi’s “Nuctemeron of Apollonius of Tyana” (supplement to Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie) and means “physician.” Papus is primarily remembered as an
Comments Off on Docteur Gérard EncausseEugène Henri Paul Gauguin(1848-1903 e.v.) by T. Apiryon French painter, leader of the post-impressionist school and the synthesist movement. Gauguin resigned from a successful career as a Parisian stock broker to devote himself to painting, though he had little formal training therein. He was extremely unsuccessful at first, and rapidly lost all his money as
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