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Ora et Labora

An OTO Research Journal

With wide-ranging and highly eclectic essays from around the world, Ora Et Labora gathers together the research and findings of the practitioner-scholars of Thelema.

Vol I

  • In the Weaves of the Order – Frater Phanes X°
  • Typology of Will in writings of Aleister Crowley, Meister Eckhart and Carl Gustav Jung – Krzysztof Azarewicz
  • An Analysis of Liber Librae – Frater V.I.A.
  • When meditation goes bad – Cynthia Crosse
  • Health in Thelema: The Stone of the Wise & The Holy Guardian Angel – Shawn Gray
  • Eros daimon mediator and Electoral College – Frater Ιαω Σαβαω
  • On the Epiclesis – Michael Kolson
  • Secret Light: Reflections on the Rosy Cross – Tau Nektarios
  • Eucharist: From Self to God – Padraig MacIain
  • The Proof is in the Pudding- Marko Milenovic
  • Baphomet – Frater O.I.P.

Vol II

  • Āmi Satya: Hallaj, Crowley, and the Baul Fakirs of Bengal – Keith Cantú
  • Carl Kellner – Patrizia Ebner
  • Freemasonry, the OTO, and Crowley – Robert Koole
  • Aleister Crowley: a K2 Letter – Clint Warren
  • The Spiritual Heritage from Egypt – Pontus Lindqvist
  • Notes towards a preliminary analysis of a peculiar motif in the Stele of Ankh-af-na-khonsu – Rev. Cosmé Hallelujah
  • The Birth of the New Aeon: Magick And Mysticism of Thelema from the Perspective of Postmodern A/Theology – Gordan Djurdjevic
  • Crowley, Conspiracy, Moral Panic and the Media – Brendan Walls
  • The Will of the Aeon – Frater A.B.H.S.

Vol III

  • Alba ad Rubrum: Waratah Blossoms – J. Daniel Gunther
  • Lord of Life & Joy – Brent Gray
  • The ‘Occult Macrohistory’ of Aleister Crowley – Ian Drummond
  • Mundus Imaginalis, the Stone of the Wise – Chris Carr
  • Bread and Salt: To be taken with a grain of salt – Frater O.I.P
  • Initiation and the Hermetic Tradition – Shawn Gray
  • The mantras and the spells: Language and magick – Frater S.P
  • “Anything can be Animated”: The Visionary Cinema of Jordan Belson and its Esoteric Core – Gordan Djurdjevic
  • Occultists, Nazis, Atlanteans and Alawites. Vril and the Occult Revival – Daniel Brant Corish
  • ‘That I may follow and dispel the night’: Wagner’s Parsifal and Liber XV – Percy A. Mindnich
  • A Crack in Everything : Finitude and the Ceremony of the Introit – Entelecheia
  • An Examination of the Symbolism of the Gnostic Mass Temple – Michael Kolson
  • Temple Theology in the Gnostic Mass – Padraig MacIain
  • Apokalypsis II: Temple mysticism in the New Aeon : An Introduction – Steve King
  • The Island of Flames and the spiritual heart. A reflective commentary on Rev. Cosmé Hallelujah’s “Notes towards a preliminary analysis of a peculiar motif in the Stele of Ankh-af-na-khonsu” – Shokufeh Alwazi
  • Excursus on Notes towards a preliminary analysis of a particular motif in the Stele of Ankh-af-na-khonsu – Rev. Cosmé Hallelujah

Vol IV

  • The Life of the Sun, the Joy of the Earth: An orientation for practice and awareness in the M∴M∴M∴ – Ian Drummond
  • The Mythology Of The Eucharist: An Introduction to the Cakes of Light. – Soror Shalimar
  • The Solar Myth and the Path of Initiation – Cosimo Salvatorelli
  • VIAOV: the Monomyth of Aleister Crowley – Sinisha Tzar
  • The Therion Files – William Peters
  • A World of Difference: Love in the New Aeon – Daniel Brant Corish
  • The Left-Hand Path – Frater S.P.
  • Liber Samekh – Garry McSweeney
  • The Konami Code: Crowley, Card Games and the Occult – N. F. Robinson
  • The Birth of Hell: Formulae of Initiation in The Book of Two Ways and the Ceremony of the Death of Asar – Shokufeh Alwazi
  • Reading BD Spell: The mindful heart of Ankh-ef-en-khonsu – Rev. Cosmé Hallelujah
  • Apokalypsis III: Depth Revelation – Steve King
  • Introduction To Larry Sitsky’s Music (piano and chorus) for Ecclesiae Gnosticae Catholicae Canon Missae – Joel Brady
  • Music (Piano and Chorus) for Ecclesiae Gnosticae Catholicae Canon Missae – Larry Sitsky
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“Today, the Order boasts a worldwide community of scholar-practitioners looking into the theory, practice, worship, antecedents, ethics and morality of Thelema, together with OTO constitutional design, as well as its ecclesiastical and magical practice”

Shiva X° (from the Preface of Volume I)