Ordo Templi Orientis

Ordo Templi Orientis.The secret rituals of the O.T.O., edited and introduced by Francis King. Edited by Francis King. London Daniel, 1973. 240p. 

The Golden Dawn spawned both subordinate societies within it—such as Florence Farr s Sphere Group for ritual meditation and astral vision—and a number of successor groups as it splintered around 1901. These included Dr. R. W. Felkin s Stella Matutina, Aleister Crowley s A.A., and the Ordo Templi Orientis (Order of the Temple of the East, over whose British initiates Crowley assumed control in 1912 [Carter 1999, 40-42]). 

The German Masonic order called Ordo Templi Orientis (Order of the Temple of the East, abbreviated as O.T.O.) was founded between 1895 and 1906. 

Right a certificate of membership in the Ordo Templis Orientis, usually known simply as OTO. 

It is worth briefly diverting to understand the Rite of Memphis, which identified Ormus. Marconis was inspired to create his own system of ninety degrees in 1839 called the Rite of Memphis. It was essentially the defunct Rite of Mizraim, which probably dissolved because the final parts of its ritual had become unacceptably occult.While initially the Grand Orient of France supported the Rite of Memphis, it ultimately suspended this rite as well. The exoteric portion of the Rites of Memphis and Mizraim became the Ordo Templi Orientis. The Hermetic Brotherhood of Light reserved the more occult inner teachings. The two orders merged by about 1917. 

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