Path: typhoon.sonic.net!feed.news.sonic.net!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: paulhume@lan2wan.com (Paul Hume) Newsgroups: alt.magick Subject: Re: organizations Date: 4 Nov 2002 13:43:52 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.107.93.163 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1036446233 21350 127.0.0.1 (4 Nov 2002 21:43:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 4 Nov 2002 21:43:53 GMT Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.magick:323565 > How do these thelemic (?) organizations like o.t.o, a.a. (and something > else?) differ from each other? Crowley has a somewhat romantic discussion of their differences in Magick Without Tears, but to my mind it boils down as follows: OTO: similar to Masonry, with continental Masonry in its ancestry. Designed as an organization that actively promotes the Law of Thelema in the larger society, and that offers members one approach to living by the Law in its initiations. Most of its material is taught in the symbolism of the initiations. AA: oriented to developing the individual magician, independently of any social organization or engine, in a one-on-one teaching environment with a strict curriculum. Paul