William Bernard Crow — Mahoran Mar Basilius Abdullah III — O.T.O. — Gnostic Church

Patriarch with paperwork

William Bernard Crow: OHO of the O.T.O., Grand Administrator General of Memphis and Mizraim and Patriarch of the Gnostic Catholic Church. See also The Ancient and Universal Rite of Cosmic Architecture. And a small visual annex around William Bernard Crow.

Three doors into the Crow dossier

Mother dossier: Crowley’s 1944 appointment of William Bernard Crow as Basilius Abdullah III.

Visual annex: Crow, bishops, Heikaus, Tolli, and the ecclesiastical side theatre.

Cosmic Architecture: Crow’s 1948 outline on O.T.O., Memphis and Mizraim, and the Apostolate of the Holy Wisdom.

Crowley and Crow, 21 June 1944

Aleister Crowley and William Bernard Crow, June 21, 1944 — From “Noch Mehr Materialien Zum O.T.O.”

The appointment, in its own ceremonial prose

To Mega Therion
The Word of The Aeon
Unto All And Singular To Whom These Presents Shall Come

Whereas the Gnostic Catholic Church, adhering to the vital elements of the most ancient true tradition, fixes its intentions and its aims most firmly on the future. And whereas the world has entered the New Aeon, the Age of the Crowned and Conquering Child, and the Masters have decided that the time has come for High Initiates to administer the Sacraments of the Age of Horus.

Now, therefore, We, by virtue of the Supreme authority vested in us do hereby nominate and appoint our very dear brother and most reverend father in God William Bernard Crow by the name and title of [Mahoran Mar] Basilius Abdullah [III.] a Sovereign Patriarch of the Gnostic Catholic Church and Vicar of Salomon with full right, power and authority to administer the said Church and to consecrate, ordain, appoint hierarchs, priests, priestesses, deacons and other necessary Officers therein, to work the Gnostic Catholic Mass, and to take charge of all ceremonials, organisational, and financial affairs in connection therewith.

Love is the law, love under will.

... August 1944 e.v.

Facsimiles: the paper crown

William Bernard Crow — Aleister Crowley — 1944 manifesto for the Gnostic Catholic Church, page 1

William Bernard Crow — Aleister Crowley — 1944 manifesto for the Gnostic Catholic Church, page 2

From: O.T.O. Rituals and Sexmagick — Birth and Development of the O.T.O., Amazing Maze, Structure and Practices of the O.T.O. Groups, a note to the Constitutions, the Rituals and the Instructions. Out of print.