I had the pleasure of meeting Oscar Schlag (b. 1907) on thirty occasions prior to his passing in 1990. Of these, twenty-eight took place within the confines of his two residences — one his primary abode, which housed an extensive occult collection, the other located directly across the way in an apartment building. On two occasions, he visited my own residence, where we even engaged in collaborative culinary experiments.
The documents presented below genuinely astonished him. He could not have imagined the degree to which he had impacted the individuals mentioned in these writings. Evidently, Schlag did not take all of this especially seriously. At our very first meeting in the mid-1980s, he remarked with considerable surprise: “Why?! The O.T.O. still exists?”
On this webpage, the documents are presented without additional commentary. It is therefore essential to take into account Schlag’s own remarks, corrections, and retrospective observations, which may be found right here.
1951-1954 report on Schlag
Jane Wolfe — Karl Germer
Marcelo Ramos Motta photographed by Oscar Schlag
Motta to Oscar Schlag
The exchange with Karl Germer is coming to an end.
Marcelo Ramos Motta to Hermann Joseph Metzger
All above documents are from P.R. König: 'Materialien zum O.T.O.'
Marcelo Ramos Motta's books
The fallacies circulated by Motta’s successors and self-anointed spiritual heirs after his death in 1987 speak amply for themselves — and need no further documentation here.
More about/from Oscar Schlag and Did you know Oscar Schlag?
For further details on the background of Motta’s activities within the various versions of the O.T.O., as well as his involvement in legal disputes concerning the copyright of O.T.O. materials — particularly those related to the works of Aleister Crowley — see the Song of the Whitewash.
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