by Jay Lee -

What’s Gnostic about our Gnostic Catholic Church?

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

Dionysius Rogers returns for an examination of ancient Gnosticism and its modern revivals, and the relevance of these movements to the Thelemic congregational rite of Ordo Templi Orientis. 

The video can be viewed here.

Dionysius Rogers is a Charter Member of Academia Ordo Templi Orientis, having presented at Vancouver, Barcelona, and New Orleans. He is also Past Master of Scarlet Woman Lodge, Past Most Wise Sovereign of Ouarda Chapter, and a perennial NOTOCON presenter. He is the author of the books Raise the Spell, Thelema for the People, A Bishop’s Advice, and Fire in the Reed, among others.

Love is the law, love under will.

by Jay Lee -

Kindness to Troglodytes

A discussion of the various ways in which initiates treat non-initiates, and how best to model such interactions. The philosophical quandary is addressed with aid from Plato, St. Rabelais, Ibn Tufayl, Montesquieu, and Heinlein, with explicit reference to the notorious Point 28 of Liber CI. Some attention will also be given to the general difficulties of promulgating the Law.

Dionysius Rogers is an eleven o’clock scholar and a performing liturgist, as well as a Charter Member of Academia Ordo Templi Orientis, Past Master of Scarlet Woman Lodge, Past Most Wise Sovereign of Ouarda Chapter, and a perennial NOTOCON presenter. He is the author of the books Raise the Spell, Thelema for the People, A Bishop’s Advice, and Fire in the Reed, among others.

The video can be viewed here: