Ordo Templi Orientis Éire

Major thanks to everyone who helped make our recent round of initiations a highly enjoyable and successful weekend. Congratulations to all of our newly-made initiates, and welcome to our new Minerval! Special thanks to Brother Simon who came all the way from Wales to assist us.

Our next initiations are planned for August, so application forms for those should be in by early July at latest. We are hoping to do more Minerval initiations then too, so anyone who is not already a member and would like to join us, do please get in touch.

Thanks to all who attended a very successful initiation ritual training day on Saturday! It was great to have so many people there learning about how our initiation rituals work, and sharing their thoughts and experiences. It was also great to have other Brethren from around the world attending via Internet video conferencing – we had people from England, Wales, and the USA there for pretty much the whole day, and their input was extremely welcome and valuable.

Our next event will be initiations into the Minerval, First, and Second Degrees of O.T.O. on May 5th, which promises to be another big step forward in our Order’s progress here in Ireland.

On May 5th we will be performing another round of initiations into the Minerval, I* and II* Degrees of OTO. We should have received all applications for initiation on this date already, so if you would like to be considered for initiation for then, please contact us immediately. All members are encouraged to attend to welcome our new Sisters and Brothers into our Holy Order.

A full day class for all OTO initiates in which we will go through the Degrees from Minerval to II*. If you would like to be an officer for future initiations you must attend this class, but all who have undergone initiation will find the class useful for increasing their understanding of our Degree system. Members only – please RSVP to info@oto-ie.org

On March 17th we will be celebrating the Equinox (a little early) by performing the Invocation of Horus by Aleister Crowley at our Cavan location. This ritual is a commemoration of the anniversary of Crowley’s successful performance of it in Cairo, which brought about the opening of the New Æon. Crowley actually began the invocation ceremony around 10:00 PM on Saturday, March 19, 1904, and completed it just after midnight.

This event is open to all members and invited guests, so if you would like to come along, please contact us. A detailed explanation of the ritual can be found in Chapter 2 of Grimoire of Aleister Crowley, or in basic form here.

Many thanks to all who made it along to the meeting on Saturday;  particularly great to see so many new faces.  A very informative and stimulating day it was, performing and analysing both Liber Resh and The Ritual of the Mark of The Beast from the Grimoire of Aleister Crowley.  I shall be posting my Liber Resh lecture on the member’s forum shortly for those who were unable to attend.

To offer topic suggestions for future meetings or if you would be interested in attending,  please contact us.

Khephra Oasis will be holding initiations into the Minerval Degree of OTO on Saturday 4th of February. All members are welcome to attend, please contact the Oasis for more details.