Dossier / Gallery

Aleister Crowley

Fetish, Self-Induction, Stigma and Rôleplay
Fraternitas Saturni

A small dossier on ritual image-management, fetishised authority, multilingual afterlives, and the familiar occult wardrobe department.

Guru, rôle, usable icon

Guru Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley “suitable for worship” in the ‘Caliphate’ Ordo Templi Orientis.
Allen Greenfield Caliphate Ordo Templi Orientis Chartas
Size matters: Bishop Allen G.'s chartas.

Fetish, Self-Induction, Stigma and Rôleplay

The study circulates in several language versions; the theme remains the same: ritual identity, stigma, theatrical self-production, and the strange administrative perfume of esoteric legitimacy.

Ordo Templi Orientis

The apron sequence is left deliberately calm as even occult textiles occasionally deserve a little air.

O.T.O. apron 1
O.T.O. apron 2
O.T.O. apron 3
O.T.O. apron 4
O.T.O. apron pi
O.T.O. apron kew
Aprons of the O.T.O.

Fraternitas Saturni

Fraternitas Saturni
Fraternitas Saturni
Fraternitas Saturni

Erweiterungen zur Geschichte der Fraternitas Saturni. Fotos und Texte von und zu: Eugen Grosche, Der Berg Ipf, Der Putsch 1962, Wolf Rösler, E.P.H. Barth (?)/Amenophis, Karl Wedler, Margarete Berndt, Karl Spiesberger, Walter Englert, Guido Wolther, Walter Jantschik, Horst Kropp, Johannes Maikowski, Dieter Heikaus.

Keys, cups, garments

Fraternitas Saturni Saturn Schlüssel Key Calix Borealis Berlin
Calix Borealis Fraternitas Saturni Berlin
Calix Borealis Fraternitas Saturni Berlin
From Calix Borealis, Magazin of the Fraternitas Saturni, Berlin 2005.

Sword, hat and coat of the Fraternitas Saturni
Sword, hat and coat of the Fraternitas Saturni.