Ora et Labora
An OTO Research Journal

OTO Australia presents this global snapshot of the unfolding New Aeon

Volume IV available from online retailers from 20th March, 2023 e.v.

Vol IV

  • The Life of the Sun, the Joy of the Earth: An orientation for practice and awareness in the M∴M∴M∴ - Ian Drummond
  • The Mythology Of The Eucharist: An Introduction to the Cakes of Light. - Soror Shalimar
  • The Solar Myth and the Path of Initiation - Cosimo Salvatorelli
  • VIAOV: the Monomyth of Aleister Crowley - Sinisha Tzar
  • The Therion Files - William Peters
  • A World of Difference: Love in the New Aeon - Daniel Brant Corish
  • The Left-Hand Path - Frater S.P.
  • Liber Samekh - Garry McSweeney
  • The Konami Code: Crowley, Card Games and the Occult - N. F. Robinson
  • The Birth of Hell: Formulae of Initiation in The Book of Two Ways and the Ceremony of the Death of Asar - Shokufeh Alwazi
  • Reading BD Spell: The mindful heart of Ankh-ef-en-khonsu - Rev. Cosmé Hallelujah
  • Apokalypsis III: Depth Revelation - Steve King
  • Introduction To Larry Sitsky's Music (piano and chorus) for Ecclesiae Gnosticae Catholicae Canon Missae - Joel Brady
  • Music (Piano and Chorus) for Ecclesiae Gnosticae Catholicae Canon Missae - Larry Sitsky

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Available online via:

You will need to search for the ISBN number on local Amazon sites (i.e: CA, DE) and other online retailers:

  • Ora et Labora : Volume I : ISBN 978-0645103908
  • Ora et Labora : Volume II : ISBN 978-0645103915
  • Ora et Labora : Volume III : ISBN 978-0645103922
  • Ora et Labora : Volume IV : ISBN 978-0645103977

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UK £14.00
AUD $25.00
EUR €14.00

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Book Launch Videos

On the weekend of the Equinox 2021 e.v. (March 21st), to coincide with volume I and II being available, the Grand Lodge of Australia hosted two virtual book launches where some of the authors discussed the contents of their essays and paper. You can find portions from some of these talks on our YouTube channel or on our blog page.

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With wide-ranging and highly eclectic essays from around the world, Ora Et Labora gathers together the research and findings of the practitioner-scholars of Thelema.

Vol I

  • In the Weaves of the Order - Frater Phanes X°
  • Typology of Will in writings of Aleister Crowley, Meister Eckhart and Carl Gustav Jung - Krzysztof Azarewicz
  • An Analysis of Liber Librae - Frater V.I.A.
  • When meditation goes bad - Cynthia Crosse
  • Health in Thelema: The Stone of the Wise & The Holy Guardian Angel - Shawn Gray
  • Eros daimon mediator and Electoral College - Frater Ιαω Σαβαω
  • On the Epiclesis - Michael Kolson
  • Secret Light: Reflections on the Rosy Cross - Tau Nektarios
  • Eucharist: From Self to God - Padraig MacIain
  • The Proof is in the Pudding- Marko Milenovic
  • Baphomet - Frater O.I.P.

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Vol II

  • Āmi Satya: Hallaj, Crowley, and the Baul Fakirs of Bengal - Keith Cantú
  • Carl Kellner - Patrizia Ebner
  • Freemasonry, the OTO, and Crowley - Robert Koole
  • Aleister Crowley: a K2 Letter - Clint Warren
  • The Spiritual Heritage from Egypt - Pontus Lindqvist
  • Notes towards a preliminary analysis of a peculiar motif in the Stele of Ankh-af-na-khonsu - Rev. Cosmé Hallelujah
  • The Birth of the New Aeon: Magick And Mysticism of Thelema from the Perspective of Postmodern A/Theology - Gordan Djurdjevic
  • Crowley, Conspiracy, Moral Panic and the Media - Brendan Walls
  • The Will of the Aeon - Frater A.B.H.S.

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Vol III

  • Alba ad Rubrum: Waratah Blossoms - J. Daniel Gunther
  • Lord of Life & Joy - Brent Gray
  • The 'Occult Macrohistory' of Aleister Crowley - Ian Drummond
  • Mundus Imaginalis, the Stone of the Wise - Chris Carr
  • Bread and Salt: To be taken with a grain of salt - Frater O.I.P
  • Initiation and the Hermetic Tradition - Shawn Gray
  • The mantras and the spells: Language and magick - Frater S.P
  • “Anything can be Animated”: The Visionary Cinema of Jordan Belson and its Esoteric Core - Gordan Djurdjevic
  • Occultists, Nazis, Atlanteans and Alawites. Vril and the Occult Revival - Daniel Brant Corish
  • 'That I may follow and dispel the night': Wagner's Parsifal and Liber XV - Percy A. Mindnich
  • A Crack in Everything : Finitude and the Ceremony of the Introit - Entelecheia
  • An Examination of the Symbolism of the Gnostic Mass Temple - Michael Kolson
  • Temple Theology in the Gnostic Mass - Padraig MacIain
  • Apokalypsis II: Temple mysticism in the New Aeon : An Introduction - Steve King
  • The Island of Flames and the spiritual heart. A reflective commentary on Rev. Cosmé Hallelujah's “Notes towards a preliminary analysis of a peculiar motif in the Stele of Ankh-af-na-khonsu” - Shokufeh Alwazi
  • Excursus on Notes towards a preliminary analysis of a particular motif in the Stele of Ankh-af-na-khonsu - Rev. Cosmé Hallelujah

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“Today, the Order boasts a worldwide community of scholar-practitioners looking into the theory, practice, worship, antecedents, ethics and morality of Thelema, together with OTO constitutional design, as well as its ecclesiastical and magical practice”

Shiva X° (from the Preface of Volume I)