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Order but merely in a caretaker position. Yet it was Grant’s very acknowledgement of
Germer as “World Head of the oto in the Outer” in the manifesto of his New Isis
Lodge, stating that Germer was in accord with its contents, that was one of the things
Germer took exception to seeing as he had been told nothing of it in advance. When
Germer saw the manifesto he considered it full of “outright lies” and that Grant was
“sailing under false pretences” and promptly gave him the boot. The interminable details
of the various claims to succession by the various oto factions can be pored over on
Koenig’s website and others. More interesting, concerning the recently discovered Grant
succession letter, is that I am told that in private Grant had said, before the letter on the
Koenig site came to light, that at Crowley’s funeral at Brighton Crematorium on
December 5, 1947, Lady Frieda Harris mentioned to him that there was a letter making
him head, although in Starfire this becomes an unspecified “casual remark”.
Time has a lot of revealing to do it seems. After years of wisely remaining aloof from
the issue of the legitimacy of his own succession, Kenneth Grant is suddenly forced by
the prospect of his own death—he’s now 78 (b. 1924)—to put the matter on the agenda
once again, and reorientate the Order towards Thelemic orthodoxy, lest anyone be
mistaken enough to suppose that they had drifted towards crepuscular reclining upon
the divan of dark crystalline suzerainty mounted upon the iridescent winged beetle
screaming down the corridor of the Aeons following the putrescent squid ejected from
the blowhole of Dendera under the sweet sweet black sun at midnight onto the shores
of Babalon’s pulsating and tumescent yoni. No! Apparently that’s not what the oto’s
about after all.
So what is the ultimate aim of the oto, Typhonian and Caliphate alike? Well, this is
something regularly discussed around the fireside by Bill Breeze, the power-obsessed
and autocratic Caliph of the Caliphate oto, but reading it from Grant, who I thought
was quite beyond mere terrestrial ambition, I have to confess I was wondering whether
Cerberus was in sight for it reads well enough like a sop:
Briefly, the plan comports the eventual dissolution of all existing terrestrial governments.
For these governments will be substituted “kingdoms” administered by specially appointed
“Kings” of oto, in the Tenth Degree. The Kingdoms will, in turn, be subject to a central
government directed by a “Supreme and Most Holy King” who shall be the Outer Head
of the Order. The Kings will be assisted by members of the Sovereign Sanctuary of the
Gnosis in the Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Degrees. They will prepare the way for Opening
specified Outer Gateways to permit the influx of a great regenerative Magical Current.
Almost to excuse a Will to World Domination, the Official Statement adds, presumably
to get over the credibility gap whereby people might think they were crackpots:
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