O.T.O. Phenomenon Books · Archive notice
How to Make Your Own McO.T.O.
A sold-out and extremely rare facsimile edition: not a manual for instant authority, but a paper trail of ritual transmission, ritual copying, and ritual franchise theatre.
The joke is sharp because the documents are serious.
How to Make Your Own McO.T.O. was never ordinary bookshop merchandise. It belongs to that uncomfortable species of publication which becomes more useful after it disappears: a facsimile record, a bibliographic nuisance, and a small antidote to ritual grandiloquence.
The edition gathers Theodor Reuss' German ritual transcripts together with Aleister Crowley's handwritten English O.T.O. rituals. It also includes Crowley's handwritten Golden Dawn and A.·. A.·. rituals, plus his handwritten ritual for the Order of Thelema. The Crowley material is in English.
Status: sold out. This page is therefore an archival advertisement rather than a sales page; the book is presented here because it has become scarce, not because a shopping cart is hiding coyly behind the curtain.
Why this volume matters
The book is valuable precisely because it resists the polished later myth of seamless initiatory continuity. It shows ritual material as manuscript, transcript, translation, copy, dossier, and administrative weapon. In other words: the sacred sausage before the respectable wrapping.
The Reuss material preserves German O.T.O. ritual transcripts; the Crowley material records English-language ritual work in Crowley's own hand. The title’s McO.T.O. barb is therefore not merely satire. It points to a historical problem: what happens when charisma, paper, grades, seals, degrees, and handwritten ritual technology become reproducible?
For collectors, the answer is simple: the book is gone. For researchers, it remains a compact dossier of ritual archaeology. For anyone allergic to inflated lineage rhetoric, it is useful in the cruellest possible way: it lets the documents sit there and do their impolite work.
Contents
Nothing has been dressed up as revelation; the material is allowed to remain what it is: a catalogue of documents.
- Preliminaries
- 0°–III°
- I°–III° in German, translated by C. H. Petersen
- Lodge of Perfection and IV° Holy Royal Arch of Enoch, with “Synopsis of Grades”
- IV° The Mystical Lecture
- Council of Princes of Jerusalem
- 18° / V°: Hohes Kapitel der Ritter vom Rose-Croix (Reuss)
- VI° The Ceremony of Illustrious Knights Templar of the Order of Kadosh and of Dame Companions of the Order of the Holy Grail
- Liber LXX
- VII° Grossrat der Mystischen Templer (Reuss)
- VII° The Perfect Ceremony of Grand Inquisitor Commander, 31° Prince of the Royal Secret, 32°, and Sovereign Grand Inspector General, 33°, and last degree of Freemasonry
- The “Lower Grades”
- IX° Liber C
- X° De Homunculo
- IX° Secrets: “Planet prepared for incarnations”
- Schwur und magisches Siegel des 96° (Reuss)
- Ritual of 0.=0.
- Ritual of 1.=10.
- Ritual of 2.=9.
- Ritual of 3.=8.
- Ritual of 4.=7.
- Ritual of 5.=6.
- Microcosm, Clairvoyance
- Ritual CXX — Order of Thelema
- Ritual of passing through the water: “wear the Abramelin things”
- Invocation of Horus
Facsimile atmosphere
The following images keep the page close to the original archival intention: cover, references, plates, and related visual material. They are placed on their own lines, so the book can breathe instead of being wedged into a table like a guilty exhibit.
Further reading
More about this material appears in Andreas Huettl and Peter-R. Koenig, Satan — Jünger, Jäger und Justiz.
The book's facsimile reproductions have also been partly used for the English page O.T.O. Rituals and Sexmagick.
Image and facsimile note
Images on this page are presented for bibliographic, archival, and documentary identification of the publication and related ritual material.
