Primary material
Voices close to the phenomenon
Leisler, Motta, Aeschbach, Borgert, Schlag, Maikowski, Webb, Bertiaux, and later additions preserve voices and inflections that prose citations alone cannot convey.
Overview
What this archive contains
The original page mixed together playable recordings, references to temporarily unavailable material, and a long sequence of embedded videos. This edition separates those layers so that human readers can actually find things, while bots no longer have to rummage through a midden of tables, inline spacers, and dead Flash husks.
Editorial stance
Rebuilt, not rewritten into oblivion
The content remains anchored in the legacy page. What changed is the form: semantic sections, responsive layouts, accessible controls, embedded media that behave like this century, and metadata that no longer looks as though Netscape wandered into a séance.
Playable audio archive
Core recordings
The main set of playable items from the source page, now given full cards, metadata, direct audio controls, and context links.
Showing all items
Audio
August Leisler on Carl Kellner
Leisler speaks about his grandfather, Carl Kellner.
Audio
Marcelo Ramos Motta on ritual, A.·. A.·. and Kenneth Grant
Motta discusses O.T.O. rituals, the A.·. A.·., and Kenneth Grant.
Audio
Telephone interview with Annemarie Aeschbach
Peter-R. Koenig speaks with the Swiss leader of the O.T.O.
Audio
Telephone interview with Anita Borgert
Interview with Anita Borgert of the Swiss O.T.O., described here as Hermann Joseph Metzger’s former lover.
Audio
Oscar R. Schlag’s voice
A brief voice sample of Oscar R. Schlag.
Audio
Johannes Maikowski — Autogenes Training
Instruction in Autogenes Training — Ein Yoga-System für den Westen — Indigo.
Audio
William W. Webb reads a personal letter
Personal letter about his order A.·. A.·., Maggie Ingalls/Nema, and yoga.
Later additions & excerpts
Supplementary recordings
Later insertions, thematic excerpts, broadcast fragments, and grouped audio additions carried over from the older page.
Audio
Michael Paul Bertiaux — three audio excerpts
Bertiaux speaks about the Choronzon Club, Kenneth Grant, and Hermann Joseph Metzger.
Choronzon Club
Open audio
Kenneth Grant
Open audio
Metzger / O.T.O.
Open audio
Audio
Christine Freund for an unrealized Boris Polonski opera
Christine Freund of Kleenex / LiLiPUT speaks into Koenig’s telephone on 5 March 2002 for a never-realized opera by Boris Polonski.
Audio
RELOAD radio excerpt, Hanover / Leinehertz 106.5
Within the context of the Freemasonry exhibition at the Historisches Museum Hannover and the radio series VonabisW, Volker H. Schendel reviews and reads from “Der O.T.O.-Phänomen RELOAD”. The complete radio version lasts 60 minutes; this page offered a short excerpt.
Audio
David Bowie audio snippets
Two short Bowie clips as framed on The Laughing Gnostic: one on the occult, another from 15 June 2002 on role, desire, and projection.
“I don't think I ever was particularly in the Occult.”
Open audio
“Who do you want ME to BE?”
Open audio
Audio
WDR Köln, 10 November 2024
Spoken contribution for Sex, Drugs & Magie, Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln.
Documented but not embedded
Listed items whose media are absent or indirect
The source page explicitly stated that some items were temporarily unavailable. Rather than pretending otherwise, this section keeps them visible as documented entries, with context pages where available.
Documented / not embedded here
Discussion of the ‘Caliphate’ instrument of succession
McMurtry, Heidrick, Breeze and others in New York.
Documented / not embedded here
Interview with Grady McMurtry
On the history of the ‘Caliphate’.
Documented / not embedded here
Minutes of the 1985 election
Election of the new ‘Caliph’ Breeze.
Listed / media absent
London, 2 June 1987
75 Years Mysteria Mystica Maxima, with Andrea Bacuzzi, Clive Harper and others discussing money and an independent European Grand Lodge.
Documented / not embedded here
Interview with Robert Deumié
On Memphis Misraim in Canada.
Listed / media absent
Sehnsucht nach der Finsternis
Interview with P. R. Koenig by Bayerischer Rundfunk, September 2002.
Context pages available
Two Literatur-Shows, 2005
Aufstieg und Fall des O.T.O.-Phänomens and Aufstieg und Fall des O.T.O.-Phänomens (again).
Context page available
Swiss TV, 2006
Talk about magick, sexmagick, Spermo-Gnosis, the O.T.O., and the original Book of Thoth.
Video dossier
General video archive
The source page embedded a heterogeneous set of videos — some clearly titled, others more enigmatic. They are preserved here in a coherent grid and loaded without obsolete Flash detours.
Secrets of the Rosicrucians, Templars and the Illuminati
Featured video alongside the related cover image.
Archival video excerpt I
Untitled archival embed preserved from the source page.
Theodor Reuss — Ordo Templi Orientis 1917 Constitution
The legacy page preserved this historical video under a Flash embed; it now loads as a standard responsive video.
Archival video excerpt II
Untitled archival embed preserved from the source page.
Carl Kellner — grave in Hallein / Austria
A brief visual note from the pre–Ordo Templi Orientis orbit.
Johannes Maikowski cycle
Ten interviews, reconstructed as a proper dossier
The older page scattered Maikowski material between images, dense captions, and abrupt keyword-clouds. This edition presents the sequence as a single connected cycle on succession, memory, ritual, politics, and Saturnian afterlives.
Myth: The central concept in F.S. lodges is that of the lodge Egregore (group spirit), called GOTOS and represented as a bust. GOTOS is also said to be the highest rank in the F.S. (from “Gradus Ordo Templi Orientis Saturni”).
Documented context: Johannes Maikowski, Grandmaster of the Fraternitas Saturni and appointed by Eugen Grosche as his successor in December 1963, speaks with Peter-R. Koenig in August 2011.
Johannes Maikowski reports on the GOTOS bust.
What happened to it after Eugen Grosche’s death?
What interested the members?
Why the name Saturn?
On 23 December 1963 Eugen Grosche appoints Johannes Maikowski as his successor as Grandmaster of the Fraternitas Saturni.
How was elevation to the 18° carried out?
What about Walter Englert’s 18°?
Johannes Maikowski recalls Walter Englert, Margarete Berndt, Karl Spiesberger, Herman Wagner, Walter Jantschik, Horst Kropp, Guido Wolther, and the 1962 putsch initiated by Karl Wedler and Wolf Rösler.
Until shortly before his death Eugen Grosche (1888–1964), founder of the Fraternitas Saturni, was in good health.
There was no lodge room.
Wilhelm Reich’s ORGONE box.
What interested Grosche most?
What did Johannes Maikowski / Immanuel know about Grosche?
Ria Grosche was always alone.
Gregorius was the “Über-Papa”.
Eugen Grosche was a member of the Protestant Church.
Eugen Grosche never spoke about his emigration to Switzerland and Italy.
He also never spoke about his political views.
Grosche lived from his bookshop and membership fees.
Why did Grosche tolerate Nazis in the Fraternitas Saturni?
No antisemitic remark was ever heard.
Miriam Wolther, a Jewish former concentration-camp prisoner, likewise never spoke about it.
Johannes Maikowski, a member since 1950/1955, was appointed by Eugen Grosche as his successor and Grandmaster of the Fraternitas Saturni in December 1963. He was re-elected by his own adherents in 1964/65. In 1983 a competing F.S. elected a new Grandmaster, prompting him to abandon the lodge name that same year. In 1993 he founded several lodges, including the Communitas Saturni and the Grossloge Gregor A. Gregorius der FS in Kaiserslautern (GAG). Dual memberships existed with the Ordo Templi Orientis and regular Freemasonry. Maikowski soon declared his own lodge foundations null and void, although some continued to exist. In 2003 the GAG united with the formerly competing Fraternitas Saturni in Berlin. Maikowski continued to regard himself as the only legitimate Grandmaster.
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