Aleister Crowley's 1914 O.T.O.

system with 12 degrees

1 di 3

http://www.parareligion.ch/2014/XIIdegreeOTO.htm

The Minerval Degree represents the attraction of a wandering God, or

Ego, within the Solar System that the Fourth Degree, of which the
Ritual is not yet complete, represents the glorified state of the initiated
Man and the Degree of Perfect Initiate, which closes the series, His
ultimate Perfection. The Degrees from the Fifth to the Ninth are
comments upon the Second, a progressive instruction in how to live.
It has been suggested that the XI may not be considered in sequence
between X and Crowley's expanded XII of 1914 but as the position
held by the Inner Head of the Order who works privately with the
O.H.O. XII. The title of the XI is Baphomet. (XII being similar to the
X National Heads i.e. an administrative degree.) In these
circumstances the holder of the XI would be Spiritual Head of the
Order the identity of XI being known only to the XII and X's. Prior
membership of O.T.O. is not a requirement for the XI but presumably a
0 initiation would be conducted first.

M. M. M.
0 Minerval
I Man
II Magician
III Master Magician
IV Perfect Magician
Lodge of Perfection
C. P. I. Perfect Initiate
Lodge of K.E.W Kt of E. & W.
V S.P. Rose
VI Kt Kadosch, Comp of H.G.
Holy Illus Gd Inq Command
Kt of Royal Secret
VII
VIII
IX Perfect Illuminate
X S. G. M. G.
XI
XII O.H.O.

Freemasonry
Argenteum Astrum,
A.. A..

Entered Apprentice
Fellow Craft, F.M.
Master Mason
R.A. Mason
4-14
15-16
17
18
30
31
32
33

Memphis

Mizraim

E.A.
F.C.
M.M.

4-7
8-9
10
11

20

33 (95)
96

97

E.A.
F.C.
M.M.

4
44
65
66

90

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Aleister Crowley's 1914 O.T.O. system with 12 degrees

2 di 3

XI
XII O.H.O.

http://www.parareligion.ch/2014/XIIdegreeOTO.htm

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In 1917 Theodor Reuss altered the O.T.O. system again. He dropped

Crowleys invention of a XII (= OHO) and the mention of an XI, also
dropping his own VI subdegrees, but added several subtitles to the
VII while the old VII titles were added to the VIII (Crowley mentioned
two other subtitles giving a total of four subdegrees for the VIII). From
1917 on, Reuss openly equated his O.T.O. with the Hermetic
Brotherhood of Light.

National Grandmasters and OHOs of the O.T.O.

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