February 8th (Wednesday) 8:00-9:00pm

This is a monthly class that meets the Second Wednesday of each Month from 8:00pm - 9:00 p.m. Please register in advance: cost is $5 per person.

This class will provide as an introduction to the system of Thelema with an emphasis on the works of British author, Prophet and Magus Aleister Crowley (1875-1947).

Aleister Crowley was initiated into the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in 1898 and rapidly progressed through its Grades. In 1900, while in Mexico, he was also initiated into the 33rd degree of the Ancient and Accepted Rite and was further initiated around 1904 into Craft Freemasonry (Grand Loge de France). Additionally, Crowley was initiated into the Order of Oriental Templars or O.T.O. and came to compose the majority of the texts composing that system.

This course will examine the philosophical and religious underpinnings from which Thelema emerged as well as Thelema itself. Instruction and application of ceremonial magick and yoga will be emphasized. The principal text for this course is Book IV.

Frater AISh MLChMH has been a member of O.T.O. for over 17 years and is the current Secretary of the U.S. O.T.O. Grand Tribunal. He is a chartered Initiator and Trainer, an Ordained Priest and Deacon of E.G.C. (the ecclesiastical arm of O.T.O.), the former assistant Secretary of the G.T., and former body master of Leaping Laughter Lodge. He has participated in and orchestrated numerous rituals for several O.T.O. bodies including rituals celebrating the Feasts specified in Liber AL and The Rites of Eleusis.  He has also taught classes specifically analyzing The Gnostic Mass and the Man of Earth (M.O.E.) degrees, as well as general theoretical and practical instruction on the ritual and yoga taught by Aleister Crowley. He occasionally writes about these subjects on his Livejournal (aish_mlchmh).