Illuminates of Thanateros
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Abbreviation | IOT |
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Formation | 1978 |
Purpose | Chaos magic society |
Region served | Australia, Austria, Brazil, British Isles, Bulgaria, Germany, North America, South America, Switzerland |
Key people | Peter J. Carroll
Ray Sherwin |
Website | iotbritishisles iot-na |
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The Illuminates of Thanateros (
The IOT has been described as "the Order for 'serious' Chaos Magicians in the same way that the OTO exists for 'serious' Thelemites."[2] The IOT is considered to be an occult[3] or neoshamanic[4][page needed] organization.
Name
The name "Thanateros" is a combination of the names "Thanatos" and "Eros"— the Greek gods of death and sex, respectively. The idea is that sex and death represent the positive and negative methods of attaining "magical consciousness". The word "Illuminates" is used in accordance with the claimed tradition of calling such societies — in which those who have mastered the secrets of magic help bring others to mastership — "the Illuminati".
Its formal name is The Magical Pact of the Illuminates of Thanateros,[5] which is usually shortened to "the Pact".
History
Early
In the late 1970s, Ray Sherwin and
Ice magick controversy
In the early 1990s the order experienced a
Peter Carroll learned more about the racial doctrines that Tegtmeier was teaching, and criticized him for it. That led to an untenable conflict between Carroll and Tegtmeier, which culminated in Tegtmeier and all of his followers seceding from the IoT. The vast majority of German and Swiss members left the order, which constituted about 30% of the order's total membership.[10] Ralph Tegtmeier and a few others were subsequently excommunicated.[9]
After publishing Liber Kaos, Carroll retired from active participation in the order, though he remains on good terms with many of the longstanding members.[11]
References
- ^ Otto 2020, p. 762.
- ^ Hine 1995, p. [page needed].
- ^ Greer 2003, p. 303.
- ISBN 0-275-98712-4
- ^ Greer 2003, p. 240.
- ^ "A Chaos Magician - VICE". www.vice.com. Retrieved 2022-06-27.
- ^ The New Equinox, 1978[full citation needed]
- ISBN 978-0-9563321-0-3.
- ^ a b Carroll, Peter J. ("Stokastikos"). "The Ice War". Chaos International 23.
- ISBN 978-3-89913-618-0
- ^ Carroll, Peter J. (Dec 16, 2010). "Message 0". Archived from the original on 2012-07-14.
Works cited
- ISBN 1-56718-336-0.
- ISBN 1-56184-117-X.
- Otto, Bernd-Christian (2020). "The Illuminates of Thanateros and the institutionalisation of religious individualisation". Religious Individualisation. De Gruyter. .