Epistolary transmissions · 1987–1995
Ordo Templi Orientis Antiqua
Michael Paul Bertiaux’s letters to Peter-R. Koenig: charters, XI°, Choronzon Club, Memphis-Misraim, gnostic lineages, and archival documents from 1987–1995.
Painting by Michael Paul Bertiaux
Michael Paul Bertiaux to Peter-R. Koenig. A dossier of selected letters, documents, charters, and archival material from the O.T.O.A. correspondence.
My Own O.T.O.A. 1987–1991
These are extracts from letters by Michael Paul Bertiaux, also relating to my charters.
Of about 50 letters, with a total of about 150 handwritten pages, I reproduce here only a handful — out of purely scholarly interest.
Context: the XI° of the O.T.O., the history of the O.T.O.A., with an overview of the Choronzon Club and La Couleuvre Noire, Memphis-Misraim, Fraternitas Rosicruciana Antiqua, the French Gnostics such as Jean Bricaud, Jules Doinel, Robert Ambelain et al., and Stefan Hoeller.
Archive note
The correspondence ended in 1991 and was never to be continued.
My archives include extensive correspondence with Manuel Cabrera Lamparter, the O.T.O.A. archives of the countries of the former Yugoslavia, as well as several boxes of O.T.O.A. journals and internals.
Of course, I am also familiar with current O.T.O.A. material.
The Proclus Society and Neo-Pythagorean-Gnostic Church
Ordo Templi Orientis Antiqua · Le Suprême Conseil des Maîtres Sublimes de La Lumière de l'Ordre Gnostique Ésoterique de Memphis du Rite Ancien et Primitif de Memphis-Misraim
Bertiaux announces what he is going to send
1988-04-09
Michael Bertiaux tells Walter Jantschik about me
1988-05-08 · Jantschik was once Grandmaster of the Fraternitas Saturni
“We do not consecrate by letter”
1988-07-04 · “I sent the painting as equal to a charter, legal paper or document.” It is the painting Le Phallicisme at the top of this page.
“Bishop of the Gnosis + Patriarch of the Holy Roman Empire”
1988-08-06
The Voudon Gnostic Workbook
1988-09-04
“Grand Secretary For The Holy Roman Empire”
1988-09-16
Announcement of XI°, XVI°, 33°, 90° and 95°
1988-10-09
XI°, XVI°, 33°, 90, 95° Charter
1988-11-11
Doinel, Papus, Crowley, Breeze
1989-01-10
Roland Merritt Shreves, Marc Lully, Paul Wadle, William Wallace Webb
1990-02-04
Choronzon Club, C.F. Russell, Franklin Thomas, Achad, Marc Lully
1990-03-02
“We accept the Caliphate”
1990-04-04
A postcard from Massimo Introvigne and Michael P. Bertiaux
1990-08-14
“I don’t think Breeze is great” · “WW Webb is not reliable”
1990-09-24
Hierophant of Memphis-Misraim
“valid until he shall inform me of his intention to do otherwise” · “Yes, you may translate + publish my writings.” · 1991-04-22
“Authority for all German speaking areas”
1991-10-16
Four years later
1995-01-01
The wording of the following two documents is peculiar. In his letter dated 1991-04-22, Bertiaux stated that my rights are “valid until he shall inform me of his intention to do otherwise.”
I have never resigned. I have never stepped back. Nor have I ever intended to do so.
It is rumoured that a so-called O.T.O. Assistant Secretary Internet Affairs of the 'Caliphate' is behind Bertiaux’s altered opinion. Some members of the 'Caliphate' reportedly found themselves deeply disturbed by the Gnostic Catholic Church Boast, which consequently detonated in multiple directions.
Who drafted this version? Why are there two iterations of the same statement — with different signatures? Do others exist?
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