Not true ? ? ?
But but but ... that means this might not be true either
1. The O.T.O. is a body of initiates in whose hands are concentrated the wisdom and the knowledge of the following bodies:
The Gnostic Catholic Church.
The Order of the Knights of the Holy Ghost.
The Order of the Illuminati.
The Order of the Temple (Knights Templar).
The Order of the Knights of St. John.
The Order of the Knights of Malta.
The Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre.
The Hidden Church of the Holy Graal.
The Hermetic Brotherhood of Light.
The Holy Order of Rose Croix of Heredom.
The Order of the Holy Royal Arch of Enoch.
The Antient and Primitive Rite of Masonry (33 degrees).
The Rite of Memphis (97 degrees).
The Rite of Mizraim (90 degrees).
The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Masonry (33 degrees).
The Swedenborgian Rite of Masonry.
The Order of the Martinists.
The Order of the Sat Bhai, and many other orders of equal merit, if of less fame.
In more remote times, the constituent originating assemblies of the O.T.O. included such men as:
Fohi Hippolytus
Laotze Merlin
Siddartha Arthur
Krishna Titurel
Tahuti Amfortas
Ankh-f-n-khonsu Percivale
Herakles Mosheh
Orpheus Odysseus
Vergilius Mohammed
Catullus Hermes
Martialis Pan
Apollonius Tyanæus Dante
Simon Magus Carolus Magnus
Manes William of Schyren
Basilides Frederick of Hohenstaufen
Valentinus Roger Bacon
Bardesanes Jacobus Burgundus Molensis
King Wu Ko Hsuen
Christian Rosenkreutz Osiris
Ulrich von Hutten Melchizedek
Paracelsus Khem
Michael Maier Menthu
Jakob Boehme Johannes Dee
Francis Bacon Sir Edward Kelly
Andréa Thos. Vaughan
Robertus de Fluctibus Elias Ashmole
Chau Comte de Chazal
Saturnus Sigismund Bacstrom
Dionysus Molinos
And recently:
Wolfgang von Goethe Friedrich Nietzsche
Sir Richard Payne Knight Hargrave Jennings
Sir Richard Francis Burton Karl Kellner
Forlong Dux Eliphas Lévi
Ludovicus Rex Bavariæ Franz Hartmann
Richard Wagner Cardinal Rampolla
Ludwig von Fischer Papus (Dr. Encausse)
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