Company Of Stars Camp, OTO
This Encampment is devoted to the study of Magick and Thelema in the Valley of Houston, a Chartered Body of Ordo Templi Orientis.
Meetings are held for the public to meet, learn and grow and establish a healthy Local Thelemic community.
From the OTO page:
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
"J. Daniel Gunther passed away on Friday, August 23, 2024 e.v.
Although he is now gone, the fruit of his many decades of labor in the Great Work live on — his unique insight and research have been immortalized in his many influential books.
He will be remembered as a friend who was as charismatic and witty as he was knowledgeable and serious. The briefest conversations would have one laughing along with him, while also rethinking subjects one thought one already knew well.
He will also be remembered as a Teacher, selflessly devoted to the progress of his students. Indeed, his students were perhaps more privileged than they could realize. Questions sent by email were always answered within hours, with long and detailed explanations. Whether it was the Great Work or American history, Egyptian philology or progressive rock, he was always eager to talk and teach. He was never complacent, and never rested on his laurels. No sooner was a book published than he was halfway through writing another one. Until the very end he spent his days researching and writing.
Those who spent time with him will remember long nights, sitting at his feet as he regaled us with stories. The hour was late, his hair was tussled, and his shirt buttons undone — yet his eyes always shone with a bright and mysterious light.
He is survived by his three sons, of whom he was so proud, and by his wife, Gwen — the apple of his eye.
Relevance to OTO: Gunther was relevant to many of us in understanding our path in OTO and presented at many OTO bodies worldwide as a dear friend of the Order.
He has shed his body. His Soul is free."
Love is the law, love under will.
19/08/2024
Thank you everyone for attending our Magipalooza this past weekend.
Great presentations and continuations to our OTO
Houston Community!
Congratulations on becoming a Man and a Brother! The initiation was an unforgettable experience!
Welcome our New Minerval Sister in the Valley of Houston!
Congrats on your initiation!
Congratulations to our Brothers been initiated into the IV/PI degree. Perfect Initiates - Princes of Jerusalem!
Thank you everyone who attended tonight. Beautiful individuals old and new, for our Public Thelemic Discussion!
25/06/2022
We of Thelema say that “Every man and every woman is a star.” We do not fool and flatter women; we do not despise and abuse them. To us a woman is Herself, absolute, original, independent, free, self-justified, exactly as a man is.
We dare not thwart Her Going, Goddess she! We arrogate no right upon Her will; we claim not to deflect Her development, to dispose of Her desires, or to determine Her destiny. She is Her own sole arbitar; we ask no more than to supply our strength to Her, whose natural weakness else were prey to the world’s pressure. Nay more, it were too zealous even to guard Her in Her Going; for She were best by Her own self-reliance to win Her own way forth!
We do not want Her as a slave; we want Her free and royal, whether Her love fight death in our arms by night, or Her loyalty ride by day beside us in the Charge of the Battle of Life.”
-The Commentary to The Book of the Law, III:55
Camp Secretary.
10/04/2022
Happy Three days of the Writting of the Book of the Law. May the blessings of Nuit, Hadit and RaHoorKhuit flow in abundance upon you and your loved ones!
05/04/2022
🥰Thank you everyone for coming by! It was great to meet all the new faces and see what draws them to esotericism and spiritual development. 🌺
Congratulations to our New Minervals and Worthy Guests for their arrival at our Camp!
20/03/2022
Happy Equinox & Thelemic New Year!
Today marks the 118th anniversary of the dawning of the New Aeon in 1904 and marks the Thelemic New Year and the beginning of our Holy Season over the next 22 days, ending on April 10 and the completion of the reception of the Book of the Law!
20/03/2022
Happy beginning of the Thelemic Holy Season! March 19
Prologue of the Unborn
1. Into my loneliness comes—
2. The sound of a flute in dim groves that haunt the uttermost hills.
3. Even from the brave river they reach to the edge of the wilderness.
4. And I behold Pan.
5. The snows are eternal above, above—
6. And their perfume smokes upward into the nostrils of the stars.
7. But what have I to do with these?
8. To me only the distant flute, the abiding vision of Pan.
9. On all sides Pan to the eye, to the ear;
10. The perfume of Pan pervading, the taste of him utterly filling my mouth, so that the tongue breaks forth into a weird and monstrous speech.
11. The embrace of him intense on every centre of pain and pleasure.
12. The sixth interior sense aflame with the inmost self of Him,
13. Myself flung down the precipice of being
14. Even to the abyss, annihilation.
15. An end to loneliness, as to all.
16. Pan! Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan!
08/03/2022
The Ordo Templi Orientis Ukraine Relief Fund has been established by the International Headquarters of Ordo Templi Orientis to raise funds for our Ukrainian brothers and sisters. Your donation to this fund will support affected members in Ukraine, as well as Ukrainian members and their families who have been forced to leave their country due to the Russian invasion. But most importantly it will help fellow human beings!
https://oto.betterworld.org/campaigns/ukraine?fbclid=IwAR03fa3hfuoxovp85Jv79oLFNbgqcDIs3265qmFaSScSHjRS-1uh0VmLLhs
Ordo Templi Orientis Ukraine Relief Fund supporting Ordo Templi Orientis Ordo Templi Orientis Ukraine Relief Fund
08/03/2022
Thank you all for joining us tonight for coffee night, as well as our new faces stopping by to say hi!
Company of Stars Encampment - Valley of Houston
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
“Every man and every woman is a star”
-Liber AL vel Legis
Company of Stars Encampment—founded in 2019 and located in the Valley of Houston Texas—is a local body of Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.) under charter from United States Grand Lodge. We are a fraternal, initiatory organization, similar to Freemasonry and the ancient mystery schools, that has accepted the Law of Thelema as revealed in The Book of the Law. As such, we support the mission of the Grand Lodge “to effect and promote the doctrines and practices of the philosophical and religious system known as Thelema, with particular emphasis on cultivating the ideals of individual liberty, self-discipline, self-knowledge, and universal brotherhood.”