kaos

Staley, despite his interest in such deadends as Lam, appears to understand this; in
1994 he wrote that the oto is “an expression of an informing current, a current which
adopts one guise after another, moving on when a particular form has outlived its
usefulness”. One can only hope that he also realises that the greatest challenge facing
the oto today is not to set up a network of Kingdoms under the control of a Supreme
and Most Holy King but simply to understand that the oto itself has outlived its
usefulness, and is hindering the expression of the 156 current by tying up occultists in
the dead 93 current.
These realisations do not seem to come easy to most Thelemites, who appear to feel
threatened by the 156 current and do not recognise it as the living transmutation of the
93 current. In practice what will probably happen is that the oto will continue as an
organisation that soaks up neophytes and binds their Wills to its forlorn agenda, but
gradually the talented individuals who are presently wasting their time in it will come
to understand the implications of the 156 current, rise above their involvement in 93,
and then either subvert the oto or simply resign to find or create formations more
conducive to the working of kaos-babalon.
Related matters
Kenneth Grant succession letter
The “Grant succession letter” was included in OTO Rituals and Sex Magick (Thame:
Mandrake Press, 1999), edited by Tony Naylor with an introduction by Peter Koenig,
which is curious given that Ben Fernee gave a copy of the forensic handwriting analysis
he commissioned to Naylor before publication. He also gave a copy to Michael Staley
before publication in Starfire. Neither mentioned it. One suspicious thing about the
actual content of the letter is that in it “Crowley” says that Frater Saturnus (Karl Germer)
is “capable only of the Office of Custodian” of the oto, which is something that Michael
Staley had written about at length prior to the letter turning up and is indeed the
lynchpin of Grant’s claim that Germer had no legitimate authority to expel him. I am
told, however, that Staley was genuinely surprised when the “succession letter” turned
up on the Internet. Even so, the content of the letter does seem too pat with current
circumstances to have been written in 1947.
One theory is that the letter is a forgery that was not so much aimed at establishing
Grant as oho of the oto but rather at pissing off Bill Breeze. Herr Koenig is known for
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