P Parareligion Sound of the O.T.O. — redesigned archival edition
Audio / Video Archive

Sound of the O.T.O.

A re-edited, fully restructured archive page built from the information preserved in the older edition: audio documents, interviews, and embedded video on the O.T.O. phenomenon, Fraternitas Saturni, Johannes Maikowski, Michael Bertiaux, Marcelo Ramos Motta, David Bowie, and related figures.

The material is now arranged as a legible collection rather than a table-sprawl: playable recordings first, documented but currently absent items next, then the video dossier — all with cleaner semantics, stronger metadata, clearer hierarchy, and less browser archaeology.

33audio cassettes listed in the source page
14playable MP3 items embedded here
15video embeds preserved and reorganized
c. 1973–2024approximate chronological span
Archival collage for Sound of the O.T.O.
Archive image August Leisler, Marcelo Ramos Motta, Johannes Maikowski, Michael Paul Bertiaux, Oscar Schlag, Robert Deumié, Swiss O.T.O. figures, and surrounding lines of succession and dispute.
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.

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.

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.

Language: GermanDate: 1976Duration: 4:53 excerpt / 35:30 totalSize: approx. 640 KB
  • O.T.O.
  • Carl Kellner
  • family testimony
Audio

Marcelo Ramos Motta on ritual, A.·. A.·. and Kenneth Grant

Motta discusses O.T.O. rituals, the A.·. A.·., and Kenneth Grant.

Language: PortugueseDate: c. 1973Size: approx. 620 KB
  • O.T.O.
  • rituals
  • Kenneth Grant
Audio

Telephone interview with Annemarie Aeschbach

Peter-R. Koenig speaks with the Swiss leader of the O.T.O.

Language: Swiss GermanDate: 7 Jan 1987Duration: 3:49Size: approx. 880 KB
  • Swiss O.T.O.
  • interview
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.

Language: Swiss GermanDate: 8 Jan 1987Duration: 3:37Size: approx. 470 KB
  • Swiss O.T.O.
  • Metzger
  • interview
Audio

Oscar R. Schlag’s voice

A brief voice sample of Oscar R. Schlag.

Language: EnglishDate: 1987Duration: 1:13Size: 170 KB
  • Oscar Schlag
  • voice
Audio

Johannes Maikowski — Autogenes Training

Instruction in Autogenes Training — Ein Yoga-System für den Westen — Indigo.

Language: GermanDuration: 25:11Size: 6.76 MB
  • Johannes Maikowski
  • Autogenes Training
  • Indigo
Audio

William W. Webb reads a personal letter

Personal letter about his order A.·. A.·., Maggie Ingalls/Nema, and yoga.

Language: EnglishDate: 1992Duration: 4:50Size: approx. 640 KB
  • A.·. A.·.
  • William Webb
  • letter
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.

  • Bertiaux
  • Kenneth Grant
  • 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.

  • Christine Freund
  • LiLiPUT
  • 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.

  • RELOAD
  • review
  • radio
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.

  • David Bowie
  • The Laughing Gnostic
  • audio excerpt
“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.

  • WDR
  • 2024
  • broadcast
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.

Video

Secrets of the Rosicrucians, Templars and the Illuminati

Featured video alongside the related cover image.

Secrets of the Rosicrucians, Templars and the Illuminati
Video

Archival video excerpt I

Untitled archival embed preserved from the source page.

Video

Theodor Reuss — Ordo Templi Orientis 1917 Constitution

The legacy page preserved this historical video under a Flash embed; it now loads as standard video.

Video

Archival video excerpt II

Untitled archival embed preserved from the source page.

Video

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.

Video dossier

Interview I — GOTOS, myth, succession

The page contrasts myth and document: GOTOS as bust and egregore, Johannes Maikowski as Grosche’s successor, and Koenig’s 2011 interview context.

Fraternitas Saturni illustration
Video dossier

Interview II — the bust GOTOS

Maikowski speaks about the bust GOTOS, its fate after Eugen Grosche’s death, members’ interests, and the name Saturn.

Video dossier

Interview III — 23 December 1963

On Grosche appointing Maikowski as successor, elevation to the 18°, and Walter Englert’s 18°.

Fraternitas Saturni document
Video dossier

Interview IV — memories and the 1962 putsch

Remembered figures include Walter Englert, Margarete Berndt, Karl Spiesberger, Herman Wagner, Walter Jantschik, Horst Kropp, Guido Wolther, Karl Wedler, and Wolf Rösler.

Johannes Maikowski and Fraternitas Saturni
Video dossier

Interview V — Grosche, Reich, church membership

Topics include Grosche’s health, the absence of a lodge room, Reich’s ORGON box, Ria Grosche, Gregorius as Über-Papa, and Eugen Grosche’s membership in the Protestant church.

Eugen Grosche
Video dossier

Interview VI — politics, silence, toleration

On emigration, politics, money, tolerated Nazis in the Fraternitas Saturni, and Miriam Wolther’s silence.

Political context of Eugen Grosche
Video dossier

Interview VII — legitimacy after the split

Maikowski’s competing claims, later lodge foundations, Communitas Saturni, GAG, and the 2003 reunification in Berlin.

Johannes Maikowski and Fraternitas Saturni
Video dossier

Interview VIII — Autogenes Training

Autogenes Training, Schultz, reconnection to God, hypnosis, Fraternitas Saturni, and Gregorius’s dream exercises.

Autogenes Training and Johannes Maikowski
Video dossier

Interview IX — Cathar, gnostic, theosophical lines

Keyword field retained from the source page: hérésie, Cathars, dualism, Gnosis, Blavatsky, Adyar, Pneuma Hagion, reincarnation, ritual.

Video dossier

Interview X — Perry Rhodan and Saturnian imaginaries

The source page throws together Perry Rhodan, science fiction, conspiracy culture, hollow-world ideas, Saturnus / Saturnius, and later fringe cosmologies.

Perry Rhodan - Science Fiction