Frater Superior of Ordo Templi Orientis, 1947 - 1962
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Karl Johannes Germer (22 January 1885 – 25 October 1962), also known as Frater Saturnus, was a German and American businessman and occultist. He served as the United States representative of Ordo Templi Orientis, and on the death of Aleister Crowley became his successor as the Outer Head of the Order (OHO) until his death in 1962.[1] He founded the Thelema Publishing Company and published several of Crowley's books after his death. He was born in Elberfeld, Germany and died in West Point, California.[2]
^Melton, J. Gordon; Baumann, Martin (2010). Religions of the World, Second Edition: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices. ABC-CLIO. p. 2150. ISBN 978-1598842043.
^Kracht, C., & Woodard, D., Five Years (Hanover: Wehrhahn Verlag, 2011), p. 185.
Verlag in Munich. Germer stayed with his first wife at the Abbey of Thelema from the beginning of January until February 1926. In 1926, Germer got married for...
Amos E. Germer (1862–1935), American politician Edmund Germer (1901–1987), German inventor KarlGermer (1885–1962), German occultist Lester Germer (1896–1971)...
early-mid 1970s, following the death of Crowley's appointed successor, KarlGermer. Seckler continued her lifelong work with the A∴A∴, founding the College...
conferred personally by KarlGermer. United States First Circuit Court of Appeals found that was initiated into O.T.O. by Germer in California in 1955 or...
Crowley appointed KarlGermer, a German Thelemite recently arrived in the US, to be his representative on the continent, and instructed Germer to oversee the...
"Hymenaeus Alpha". He stipulated that though Germer would be his immediate successor, McMurty should succeed Germer as head of O.T.O. after the latter's death...
Ninth Degree member of O.T.O. by KarlGermer, Crowley's successor as Head of O.T.O. Grant then successfully applied to Germer for a charter to operate the...
written in 1943 and published in 1954 with a foreword by its editor, KarlGermer. The book consists of 80 letters to various students of magick. Originally...
Charles Stansfeld Jones and Crowley's New York based representative KarlGermer. In 1932, Crowley-associate American C. F. Russell founded his own occult...
authority of Crowley's viceroy and heir apparent, KarlGermer. Crowley died in December 1947, and Germer was recognized as the head of O.T.O. At the time...
cremated at the Grandview Memorial Park in Glendale. On October 25, 1962, KarlGermer also died from prostate cancer at the age of 77, without naming a successor...
figures Ankh-af-na-Khonsu François Rabelais Aleister Crowley Jane Wolfe KarlGermer Wilfred Talbot Smith Helen Parsons Smith Jack Parsons Phyllis Seckler...
Northern California. ISBN 978-0-933429-28-4. Shoemaker, David (2017b). KarlGermer: Selected letters. Temple of the Silver Star. ISBN 978-0-997668-65-0...
KarlGermer was incarcerated by the Nazis. By the end of the war, the sole surviving O.T.O. organization was Agapé Lodge in California, where Germer moved...
figures Ankh-af-na-Khonsu François Rabelais Aleister Crowley Jane Wolfe KarlGermer Wilfred Talbot Smith Helen Parsons Smith Jack Parsons Phyllis Seckler...
He appointed KarlGermer, a German Thelemite recently arrived in the US, to be his representative on the continent, and instructed Germer to oversee the...
Similar concerns were expressed by other O.T.O. members. O.T.O.'s US head, KarlGermer, labeled her "an ordeal sent by the gods". Her disruptive behavior appalled...
going to be very valuable". Wolfe wrote to German O.T.O. representative KarlGermer that Parsons was "an A1 man ... Crowleyesque in attainment as a matter...
was sent on Crowley's death to KarlGermer, the executor of his will and head of Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.). On Germer's death no trace of it could be...
asylum as soon as she comes out in the open. – Gerald Yorke, writing to KarlGermer While in Mexico, Cameron began performing blood rituals in the hope of...
figures Ankh-af-na-Khonsu François Rabelais Aleister Crowley Jane Wolfe KarlGermer Wilfred Talbot Smith Helen Parsons Smith Jack Parsons Phyllis Seckler...
Regardie. Germer, Karl J., ed. (1953). "The Gospel According to St Bernard Shaw". The Equinox. III (2). Thelema Publishing Company. Germer, Karl J., ed....
possessions were shipped to Germer, including unbound sheets of the 1936 edition of his book The Equinox of the Gods. In 1955, Germer sold the sheets to Samuel...
figures Ankh-af-na-Khonsu François Rabelais Aleister Crowley Jane Wolfe KarlGermer Wilfred Talbot Smith Helen Parsons Smith Jack Parsons Phyllis Seckler...
figures Ankh-af-na-Khonsu François Rabelais Aleister Crowley Jane Wolfe KarlGermer Wilfred Talbot Smith Helen Parsons Smith Jack Parsons Phyllis Seckler...
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