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Phyllis Evalina Seckler (18 June 1917 – 31 May 2004), also known as Soror Meral, was an American occultist and writer.She was a ninth degree (IX°) member of the Sovereign Sanctuary of the Gnosis of Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.), and a lineage holder in the A∴A∴ tradition.
Phyllis Seckler (8/26/1939), who in the 1970s would marry Grady McMurty and be involved in reconstituting the OTO. Reea G. Leffingwell (8/26/1939), spouse of Roy Leffingwell Louis T. Culling (5/18/1941) [ 72 ] had been a follower of Choronzon Club and GBG founder C. F. Russell .
Jane Wolfe worked with Crowley's Thelemic system of training in Cefalù for three years, and emerged from those years with a degree of attainment, having survived Crowley’s ordeals. Whilst a resident at the Abbey of Thelema, Wolfe was admitted to the A∴A∴ by Crowley, taking the magickal name Soror Estai.
Seckler was also instrumental in re-activing the O.T.O. with Grady Louis McMurtry, during the early-mid 1970s, following the death of Crowley's appointed successor, Karl Germer. Seckler continued her lifelong work with the A∴A∴ , founding the College of Thelema and co-founding (with James A. Eshelman) the Temple of Thelema , and later ...
Various lineages of the A∴A∴ survive today descend from Crowley's order. One such lineage descends from Crowley's student, actress Jane Wolfe (known as Soror Estai). [6] Soror Estai's one student, Phyllis Seckler (Soror Meral), founded College of Thelema in 1973 and (with James A. Eshelman and Anna-Kria King) founded Temple of Thelema in ...
Cover of the 1991 edition of Little Essays Toward Truth by Aleister Crowley. Little Essays Toward Truth is a 1938 book written by the mystic Aleister Crowley (1875–1947). It consists of sixteen philosophical essays on various topics within the framework of the Qabalah and Crowley's religion of Thelema. On the concept of truth, Crowley writes:
The Cake of Light is the eucharistic host found within Thelema, the religion founded by English occult writer Aleister Crowley in 1904. A cake of light contains flour, honey, Abramelin oil, olive oil, beeswing, and bodily fluids such as semen, menstrual blood, vaginal fluids, or a mix thereof.
The passive aspect of Heru-ra-ha is Hoor-pa-kraat (Ancient Egyptian: ḥr-pꜣ-ẖrd, meaning "Horus the Child"; Egyptological pronunciation: Har-pa-khered), more commonly referred to by the Greek rendering Harpocrates; Horus, the son of Isis and Osiris, sometimes distinguished from their brother Horus the Elder, [13] who was the old patron deity of Upper Egypt.