Oswald Tschirtner, "Ein Mensch, der liest"
A curated collection of books related to the so-called O.T.O. Phenomenon. Alongside the usual suspects, you'll find an assortment of texts, scans, and facsimiles of more or less forgotten significance. Most of these titles are long out of print and, by now, virtually untraceable.
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Just keep in mind: most of these titles are long out of print — inquire at your own risk.
Reuss texts and O.T.O. rituals. Mostly in German, but includes the 4-page 1917 circular issued by the O.T.O./Hermetic Brotherhood of Light in Switzerland. Its political tone is striking: in response to the war, it calls for the "...establishment of Brotherhood Colonies on co-operative bases all over the world, aside from all capitalist societies and enterprises. New Ethics, a new religion, a new social order, based on the principle of co-operation of All, on the common possession of the soil and the means of production by All, and on true freedom ..." — Includes excerpts from Der Judenkenner, jubilee editions of the Oriflamme, Constitutions of 1906 and 1917, rituals and oaths, Parsifal und das Enthüllte Grals-Geheimnis, and foundational principles of the Gnostic Neo-Christians O.T.O. (out of print) [more info]
A history of the O.T.O. told as a soap opera in 22 acts. Featuring key figures such as Michael Bertiaux, H.C. Birven, Joanny Bricaud, Oscar Schlag, Eugen Grosche, Friedrich Lekve, Friedrich Mellinger, Heinrich Tränker, H.J. Metzger, Theodor Reuss, Arnoldo Krumm-Heller, Grady McMurtry — along with Memphis-Misraim, Gnostic Churches, Rosicrucians, Fraternitas Saturni, Illuminati, Voodoo, and Templars. (out of print)
Expanded 2001 edition: Der O.T.O. Phänomen REMIX. (out of print)
See the 2011 version, completely revised, updated, and expanded: Der O.T.O. Phänomen RELOAD.
The complete English online version of this early out-of-print book from 1994: The O.T.O. Phenomenon.
Limited edition companion volume to "Das O.T.O.-Phänomen". Includes lodge charters, correspondence, rituals, and photos. Multilingual. (out of print) [more info]
History and texts of the O.T.O.A. Mostly in German, but includes Michael Bertiaux's correspondence in English and an account of an undercover visit to a San Francisco 'Caliphate' O.T.O. temple. — Includes texts by Michael Bertiaux, Manuel Lamparter, W.W. Webb. Appendix: Theodor Reuss and sex, police raid on the 'Caliphate'. Many facsimiles. (out of print) [more info]
Arnoldo Krumm-Heller and the Fraternitas Rosicruciana Antiqua. Includes correspondence, proclamations, and related texts concerning offshoots of the O.T.O. in South America. Primarily in German, Spanish, and Portuguese, with an English version of Reuss’s ritual Knight of the Rose and the Cross and a 1921 letter from Reuss to Crowley that demonstrates the rupture in their relationship. — The biography of Arnoldo Krumm-Heller, F.R.A., A.M.O.R.C., Theodor Reuss, Carl Kellner, Clément de Saint-Marcq, E.C.H. Peithmann, E.T. Kurtzahn, P.B. Randolph, Oscar Schlag, Herbert Fritsche, Baphomet, and GOTOS. (out of print) [more info]
Explores Holy Guardian Angels and the Abramelin operation. Features the manuscript supposedly worked on by C.G. Jung, as well as topics such as Crowley and Abramelin, the Choronzon Club, the LAM cult, Franz Bardon, Emil Stejnar, Michael Aquino, Walter Jantschik, Claas Hoffmann, the OTOA, and a supplement on Krumm-Heller. Image section includes: Jung’s Abramelin manuscript, two Golden Dawn manuscripts, sex-magical illustrations by the Fraternitas Saturni. Also contains Gods of Egypt as Related to the Enochian Tablets by Frater A.P.S. (1895), and Israel Regardie's typescript addendum to The Book of the Concourse of the Forces. (out of print) [more info]
402 pages, illustrated. Includes documents, certificates, and writings of Heinrich Tränker, who led the German O.T.O. during Crowley's time. Primarily in German, with English translations of correspondence from Karl Germer to Tränker and from Crowley to Tränker. Also features Liber I, VII, XIII, CCCXII, IX, lodge rituals, Crowley’s statement, letters from Germer to Tränker and Rudolph, Grosche to Crowley, the O.T.O. journal Pansophia, instructional materials, unveiled sexual mysteries, the Thesaurus Pansophia, and an obituary. (out of print) [more info]
All O.T.O. rituals by Crowley reproduced as facsimiles in his own handwriting, including Reuss rituals and Golden Dawn/A∴A∴ rituals. Multilingual edition. (out of print) [more info]
Texts, rituals, and documents by Reuss and the Oriflamme. Mostly in German, but includes correspondence from W. Wynn Westcott to Reuss and others. Reproduces Oriflamme issues, documents on Rudolf Steiner, Clément de Saint-Marcq’s Eucharistie, Memphis-Misraim rituals, material relating to H.R. Hilfiker, Constant Chevillon, Der Judenkenner, and extensive Reuss research. (out of print) [more info]
Aleister Crowley's representative in Germany — includes the circle around Thelema, Thelemic Chassidim, the Gnostic Mass of the Thelemites, catechism, invocations of the NUIT-Shakti and KALI-Shakti. (out of print) [more info]
256 pages. Multilingual (German, French, Spanish & Portuguese). A collection of reproduced documents, certificates, and articles related to the history and presence of the Gnostic Catholic Church. Includes facsimiles of French and Brazilian Gnostic magazines, charters, and rituals — Initiation, Le Réveil Gnostique, La Voile d'Isis, Mysteria, Rosa-Cruz, The Gnostic Church Scandal, Baphomet. (out of print) [more info]
First volume (400 pages) of Saturnian documents. Topics include Saturn-Gnosis, rituals, Blätter für Angewandte Okkulte Lebenskunst, H.J. Metzger, Kenneth Grant, Saturnius, Adolf Hemberger, Guido Wolther, Walter Jantschik. (out of print) [more info]
Second 400-page volume on the history of Fraternitas Saturni. Almost entirely in German, reproduces internal correspondence and documents from later FS phases. Includes an English-language manifesto from a Canadian branch and material on the Manchester-based O.T.O. Foundation. Also: member lists, sex magic, FOGC rituals, Horst Knaut, Ordo Saturni, and “Von Kopf bis Fuß auf Sperma eingestellt.” (out of print) [more info]
480 pages of facsimiles. Multilingual. Features documents by Carl Kellner, certificates, correspondence, and a 28-page article by Robert Vanloo: "Controversy around a Document — Is AMORC an Offshoot of the O.T.O.?" Includes much correspondence by and about Crowley, Karl and Sascha Germer, Achad, W.B. Crow, Friedrich/Frédéric Mellinger, Grady McMurtry, W.W. Webb, Phyllis Seckler and others. Additional topics: A.M.O.R.C., Martha Küntzel, Henry Birven, Heinrich Tränker, the Illuminati rituals, Arnoldo Krumm-Heller and the Nazis, the 'Caliphate' membership list, O.T.O. Foundation. (out of print) [more info]
Completely revised and expanded (500 pages) version of the original O.T.O. history. Multilingual. Topics include: Practices and secrets of the O.T.O., Memphis-Misraim, handwritten manuscripts by Carl Kellner, Theodor Reuss, Franz Hartmann, Rudolf Steiner, Veritas Mystica Maxima, Felix Lazerus Pinkus, Heinrich Tränker, Harvey Spencer Lewis, H.C. Birven, Karl Johannes Germer, Carl Heinz Petersen, Carl William Hansen, Kenneth Grant, Martha Küntzel, Friedrich Lekve, Friedrich Mellinger, and more. Includes letters, photos, and rare materials. (out of print) [more info]
Third volume in the Fraternitas Saturni series. Covers Johannes Maikowski: Foreign Legionnaire, Stasi prisoner, twice Grand Master, Communitas Saturni & Solis, Grand Lodge G.A. Gregorius. Eugen Grosche and postwar hardships, Stasi files, Nazis in the lodge. Karl Wedler: the chalice, palace coup, copy machine. Sex-magical unrest around the 18°, experiments with Johannes Göggelmann and Horst Kropp. Dieter Heikaus' Ordo Saturni. Grand Masters and stagnation: Guido Wolther, Walter Jantschik, Stanislaus Wicha, Joachim Müller, Heinz Conrad, Hartmut B., Ralph-Peter T. Fusion of GAG with the FS. Lodge spirits: Master GOTOS — egregore? Exorial. Also: Wolf Rösler, Wilhelm Uhlhart, Richard Tschudi, devil's elixirs, French cave temple, Walter Englert, Ipf mountain, Horst Knaut, Adolf Hemberger, Saturn monastery, Michael Gebauer, Martin S., Federico Tolli, Calix Borealis. Available [more info and how to purchase]
Major expansion and update of the REMIX edition. 1476 pages in three volumes. Partly in English. Text only — no documents or images. Includes index and many new chapters. This is the most extensive attempt yet to describe the O.T.O. phenomenon. (out of print) [more info]
Manfred Ach: Under Cover, 20 Jahre A.R.W. — A portrait of the publisher A.R.W. and its key authors Friedrich-Wilhelm Haack and P.R. Koenig. With contributions by Wolfram Frietsch and H.T. Hakl (1995).
Books from A.R.W. are printed by MARO, best known for their 1970s Charles Bukowski editions.
When I began my research into the so-called O.T.O. Phenomenon in 1985, the publications of A.R.W. — founded in 1965 — were always the most inspiring to me — not just for their content, but also for their overall look and feel. Everything had a certain improvised charm: modest, makeshift, occasionally veering into the downright shoddy. The books themselves — uneven in size, poorly glued like cheap paperbacks— would often disintegrate with use. A statement about the substance, perhaps? Some have claimed that A.R.W.’s output — a sprawling archive of facsimiles and original writings — helped spark the occult revival in the German-speaking world. That I would later find myself publishing with A.R.W. too seemed, in its own odd way, entirely on brand.
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Satan — Jünger, Jäger und Justiz by Andreas Huettl and Peter-R. Koenig (out of print)
Aleister Crowley: un mago a Cefalù — “Origine dei gruppi O.T.O. e la Magia Sessuale” (in Italian). Other contributors: PierLuigi Zoccatelli, Marco Pasi, Raoul Loveday and others.
Feldzug gegen Rudolf Steiner — Rudolf Steiner was never a member of any O.T.O. — Featuring undercover agent P.R. Koenig. Other contributors: Josef Dvorak, Eve Grothe, Wolfgang Weirauch, Stefan Leber and others.
O.T.O. Rituals and Sex Magick — (English) — Birth and development of the O.T.O., Amazing Maze, structure and practices of O.T.O. groups, a note on the Constitutions, the rituals and instructions. (out of print)
Halo Of Flies — in Richard Metzger’s “Book Of Lies”. Other contributors: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Phil Hine, William S. Burroughs, Erik Davis, Nevill Drury, Anton LaVey, Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, Vere Chappell, Stephen Flowers and many more.
I had always harboured the modest ambition of appearing in a book alongside William S. Burroughs. And then — voilà.
Ultraculture One, edited by Jason Louv (CA, 2007). Includes an abridged version of “David Bowie and the Occult. The Laughing Gnostic”. Other contributors: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Brion Gysin, Ira Cohen, Jhonn Balance and others.
Contribution to Akron’s Crowley Tarot Führer (2007), with illustrations by Frieda Harris, Hansruedi Giger and others.
Since my mildly pubescent youth, I have owned a hand-altered original lithograph by H.R. Giger — signed, of course — and even interviewed him once for a school project (I believe the topics were Death — and, for some reason, Gustav Meyrink). Years later, I spoke with him again in the course of my research. So when Akron invited me to contribute to one of his books, it felt — oddly enough — like coming full circle.
In October 2006, several articles were published for Relinfo on the O.T.O., O.T.O.A., F.R.A., F.S., O.S., C.S., the Illuminati, Thelema, and more.
In August 2015, twelve additional contributions were published via Religio.
And many more: Articles and contributions in Czech, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish (including Peru), and Russian — published in books and journals, and presented at universities and academic seminars across several countries.
No doubt a few articles have slipped through the cracks — misplaced in the chaos of boxes and papers. This list is intended merely to offer a vague impression of my printed publications. For the ever-evolving and only slightly less provisional list of all my online publications, kindly click here: Additions since 1996.
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