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Correspondence from Marcelo Motta to Karl Germer
Baton Rouge
July 30, 1957
Dear Karl:
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
I have started reading Dweller on Two Planets, and find it rather interesting and elevating in thought; even what insinuations of Christianity have been made up to now seem to be more in accordance to Rosicrucian doctrine than with the Church-men.
The details of life in Atlantis, if they are not true, might as well be; and once more I wonder if such descriptions agree with A.C.'s and Steiner's [Rudolph Steiner]. . . .
But what I really want to ask you has to do with a quite different subject: the O.T.O. I have been reading a lot of ideas suggested to me lately, from reading and otherwise; and also from Culling's [Louis Culling] letters, specially his last one, where he wanted me to write you something on my opinion on differences and similarities of the O.T.O. and the A∴A∴
I have some ideas accumulating, but they depend on your answer to the question I am going to ask you, which question I do not know if you shall answer. This is it: What is the situation of the O.T.O., to-day in the world? How many members are there? What are the capitals, if any, of the order? What has been the history of the Order since A.C. took over and "Thelemized" it? I still can't quite believe that there are no active Lodges and no members, even in these United States of ours. You do not have to trust me with names or locations; but it the Order so poor and helpless right now as it seems to be?
I've got several ideas about how to improve the situation, supposing it is as bad as I seem to be thinking; it would entail the writing of a whole series of "machinery-statutes: in addition to the ones in the Blue Equinox [Equinox Vol. III, No. 1], plus programmes. etc. My idea is, in summa, to produce such leakless statutes that, while the skeleton of the Order may keep rigidly erect, yet it may be plastic enough to meet most emergencies, that the superiors cannot usurp the Order to their own ends; that the Head of the Order may have as absolute a power as the General of the Jesuits; that the General cannot usurp the Will of the Order for his own ends, either; that it may become financially—and therefore socially—temporally—powerful.
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