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Reuss insisted that he now had conclusive proof that the Knights
Templar had been provided with a mandate by a school of Eastern sexmagicians
to bring this secret doctrine to the benighted Western world. This
mission had failed with the mass arrest and extermination of the Templars.
Reuss boldly contended that Sri Mahatma Agamya Guru Paramahamsa,
Bhima Sen Pratap, and Soliman bin Aifha, had granted his fallen fellow
seeker Kellner the sole occult authority to be the true heir of the pure
Templar tradition in the West, now that he had reestablished contact with its
long-lost source. Armed with this commission, Kellner is said to have
returned to Vienna, where he instituted a new Order of Templars in the
West, grandly termed a "Sovereign Sanctuary" of secret wisdom. Again, not
a shred of proof exists to back up any of this, but it has been solemnly
repeated by hundreds of authors as gospel truth. The name of Ordo Templi
Orientis was chosen to explicitly acknowledge the spurious Eastern source
of the sexual secrets underlying this undertaking.
As with so many intelligence operatives, Reuss's real convictions
remain a matter of dispute. The National Socialists, revolted by his
combination of magic, Freemasonry, and "free love," condemned the O.T.O
founder after his death as a left-wing "Sex-Bolshevist." But some of his own
writings suggest that he was actually a right-wing German nationalist
professing authoritarian utopian visions. In 1914, Reuss laid out his
messianic proposal for an ideal future, a curious mixture of communism,
fascism, and sexual liberation. After the O.T.O had been ratified as the
official state religion, Reuss mused, a rigorous program of eugenics would
be instituted, assuring that only "perfect" couples would be licensed to
breed. Under his O.T.O. utopia, a system of slave labor would be installed,
and the state would abolish all private property for the common good.
Considering that Reuss presented the O.T.O. as a modern revival of the
lost Templar heritage, another glaring omission is evident in his program.
After all, if the voluminous records of the trial of the Templars can be
believed, the sexual rites of initiation performed by the all-male Order of
Knights seem to have been concentrated on the exchange of male sexual
energy. In 1906, Reuss was indeed brought to court by a student on a charge
of homosexual violation, supposedly committed during a yogic lesson, but
this seems to have been a trumped-up accusation. Any serious attempt at
recreating Templar magic would presumably have to include male-to-male
anal intercourse and fellatio – practices never addressed in Kellner's original
O.T.O. curriculum. This inconsistency was eventually rectified by the man
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who attempted to wrest control of the O.T.O. from Reuss, and remake it in
his own image; Sir Baphomet – better known as Aleister Crowley – who can
never be accused of having left any logical hole unfilled.
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The next link in the chain of the modern sex-magical tradition established by
Reuss has been granted the patina of legend by the sanction of yet another
one of those enduring occult myths. It goes like this:
In 1912, an irate Theodor Reuss is said to have paid a call at the
Victoria Street flat of a thirty-seven year old English amateur poet,
mountaineer and magician. This was not a social visit; Reuss had come on
official Order business. Upon being invited in, Reuss immediately