Path: typhoon.sonic.net!vnetnews.value.net!nntp.primenet.com!nntp.gblx.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sn-xit-03!sn-post-01!supernews.com!gxsn.com!gxsn.com!not-for-mail From: "Alex Sumner" Newsgroups: alt.magick Subject: Re: I am looking for Aleister Crowley Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 20:23:00 +0100 Organization: GXSN Message-ID: <8rldmn$spk$2@gxsn.com> References: <20001005193805.29255.00000386@ng-co1.aol.com> <8rjbbu$7n3$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Reply-To: "Alex Sumner" NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.147.145.196 X-Trace: 970865175 1NNUCNF1G91C4C393C gxsn.com X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 X-Complaints-To: abuse@gxsn.com Lines: 19 Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.magick:212092 wrote in message news:8rjbbu$7n3$1@nnrp1.deja.com... [snip] > However, he was head of the OTO until his death, with the Agape Lodge > active in Pasadena, and Karl Germer handling the Order's affairs in the > US. Crowley did not found the OTO, but joined it in the early part of > the century, succeeding Theodor Reuss as its head when Reuss fell ill > in the 1820's. > I presume you mean 1920s. :) Seriously though, what you have quoted is only Crowley's side of the story. Reuss himself claimed the he expelled Crowley from the OTO four days before Crowley unilaterally proclaimed that he was the new OHO. AS