Star Of I.S.I.S. Lodge
Who We Are:
Our Body had its beginning in Burnaby British Columbia, Canada, as the Star Of I.S.I.S. Camp (Encampment), an official body of the Ordo Templi Orientis, O.T.O., in 1995 e.v. representing the populace who live in the Greater Vancouver Regional District. Since then we built further upon the principles of the OTO and grew in numerous ways which required that we expand and become an Oasis, the next level of responsibility.
We became officially recognized as Star Of I.S.I.S. Oasis in 1998 e.v., again located in Burnaby, with a continuing agenda to serve the Greater Vancouver/Lower Mainland Thelemic community, as we also expanded our services to the Membership of the Fraternity and the EGC Church. Since then we have continued our service with the OTO, increasing our number of EGC Masses as well as an ever increasing schedule of Initiations and workshops for our Members.
Most recently, we were both honoured and pleased in this first quarter of 2007 e.v., to be informed that we had been elevated to Lodge status and are now known officially as Star Of I.S.I.S. Lodge, still centered in Bunaby, British Columbia and continuing to serve our Members which live throughout the Greater Vancouver Regional District. We continue to be an initiating body of the Ordo Templi Orientis, O.T.O., with Charters to Initiate 0°-III° as before, but now also able to initiate within our own Body the IV & PI Degrees necessary to complete the Man of Earth Triad with the assistance of a visiting Sovereign Grand Inspector General. We will continue to give both private and public classes/lectures to assist the Order and the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica (EGC) in promulgating the Law of Thelema.
Star Of I.S.I.S. Lodge and its Members are in allegiance to Hymenaeus Beta, who being the rightful Head of the Ordo Templi Orientis, O.T.O., effectively assists all true aspirants, and defends the O.T.O. against those who would illegitimately lay claim to our lineage and heritage.
We defend the O.T.O.'s legally defined and natural right to sole ownership and executorships of all Thelemic writings from the A∴A∴ , O.T.O. (Ordo Templi Orientis), E.G.C. (Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica) as per the wishes and will of Aleister Crowley.
What We Do:
The Star Of I.S.I.S. Lodge continues to offer initiation up to and including the Third degree of the M.M.M. of the Ordo Templi Orientis, O.T.O., and now also the IV & PI Degrees with assistance by our S.G.I.G.. Each Degree of initiation is followed up with a workshop for the Initiates of that degree so as to engage their understanding of what they have experienced. We also perform the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica (E.G.C.) Mass twice monthly, with supplemental Mass workshops to increase the participants' awareness of the rite and to provide the training necessary for the Membership to grow in the E.G.C. through baptism, confirmation and ordination as a Child and eventually as a Deacon.
We are a creative and experienced group of individuals who in a collaborative effort provide Thelemic workshops including, but not limited to, Magick, Hermeticism, Gnosticism, Yoga, Tarot, Qabalah, Astrology, Philosophy, Psychology and the making and building of the necessary Ritual Equipment. In addition there is a regular opportunity for members to lecture and organize special interest workshops not already encompassed in the regular slate of events. Social events allow for our Members and invited guests to come together in a relaxed fashion so as to build friendship and the sense of comradery necessary to an evolving community.
The Path of Initiation:
Please follow this link to an excerpt from Magick Without Tears entitled "System of the OTO". It well describes the process that one as a Seeker of Initiation will be set upon, and the general aims to which one may aspire. In addition, you can check out the OTO Canada website which gives additional information regarding the method of approach to the local Bodies of the Ordo Templi Orientis in Canada.
