Hi Pitch..
Me..
>>In the last year I've reaquainted myself with the Ordo Templi Orientis
>>here in my home city (after a hiatus of almost a decade) and I renew my
>>participation with somewhat mixed feelings.<<
Pitch..
>>Is this reinvolvement personally motivated? Or is there an academic or
>>study-mined motivation?<<
Mmmm. Firstly its personally motivated, and secondly I've also been inspired
by anthopologists studying modern magickal groups - although I am not an
anthropologist, I'm a Classics and Archaeology type - so I've got that
(ethnography) in the back of my mind there as well, although I may not ever
do anything formal with that. I'm interested in women in ceremonial magick
groups, particularly the OTO, and I'm interested in manifestations of
"Egyptianism" in modern occult groups as well. I am genuinely interested in
magick and of course, I'm in Australia.... the choices of good magickal
society are rather thin here... so going back to my old order seemed a good
decision. I like Thelemic cosmology, I suppose I could say that I believed
in it.
~Caroline.
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