Path: Supernews70!Supernews60!supernews.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!204.156.128.20!news1.best.com!noos.hooked.net!news.well.com!not-for-mail From: heidrick@well.com (Bill Heidrick) Newsgroups: alt.magick Subject: Re: Magick In Theory and Practice/Proof Please Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 01:36:01 GMT Organization: Whole Earth Networks News Lines: 24 Message-ID: <679v7t$b4q$1@was.hooked.net> References: <19971217052701.AAA00715@ladder01.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: seoul-235.ppp.hooked.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent v0.71 Xref: Supernews70 alt.magick:120635 93, katmandu@sna.com (BlueRedYellow) wrote: >I could ask one question...to add to the original. Has anyone ever heard of >the fact that one cannot be a member of the B.O.T.A. and also a member of >O.T.O...? Present BOTA policy is to admit OTO members but ban them from holding positions of responsibility in BOTA -- or so I have been told by BOTA officials. OTO doesn't care one way or the other, except that BOTA is a good place to learn some Tarot, Gematria and a bit of Golden Dawn material. In other words, BOTA members are welcome in OTO, but OTO members might be advised not to mention OTO in BOTA settings. BOTA's rules appear to have arisen out of a situation where a BOTA member who was also an Associate OTO member wanted to be married in a BOTA ceremony. There was some difference of agreement over the language of the marriage vows. Seems an odd reason for discrimination. 93 93/93 Bill