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As a result of this expulsion, Rietti set up the “Ordo Templi Orientis Foundation”,
complete with a Panamanian registry like many a rustbucket shipping line. He announced
his new oto on April 22, 1996, on various magical newsgroups on the Internet, primarily
to piss off the Caliphate oto. The actual foundation of the oto Foundation is quite
intriguing and raised an interesting question about “hidden lineages”. A mysterious
magus known as “Master Scorpio” claimed to possess the “Pentalpha” authority of the
Fraternitas Saturni, giving him the power to bestow upon Rietti his very own oto, and
a whole gaggle of Manchester Caliphate oto groupies fell for it hook, line, and sinker
and defected or were similarly expelled. It is said that being of the 18 th degree of the
Fraternitas Saturni gives one the power to create an oto. And because few people in
the occult possess the confidence to declare this a load of cobblers, lest they look like
uninitiated fools, yet another oto dangles by a slender thread of credibility. Thus David
Rietti is now the Supreme and Most Holy King of the oto Foundation, and his grand
palace is c/o New Aeon Books, Manchester.
“Master Scorpio” is in fact Ralph Tegtmeier, currently a software developer in Belgium
who is better known as Frater U∴D∴ (who was Frater V∴D∴ before he changed his
magical name on being published in America, it wouldn’t have done his sales any good
on his sex magick book). Frater U∴D∴ has the rare distinction of being expelled from
the German iot (Illuminates of Thanateros)—which has the motto “…Everything is
Permitted”—for “abusing his position and membership of an ultra right-wing mindcontrol
cult” as the mild-mannered Pete Carroll put it, referring to Tegtmeier’s “Ice
Magic Wars” and the formation of riot.
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