Illuminates of Thanateros (IOT)


	Illuminates of Thanateros (IOT)

revenantdm

6-22-2008 3:22 PM

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secret society, magic, chaos, illuminati, occult, weird, strange, unusual

revenantdm says:

Occasionally I will find a listing of a "secret society" that has an interesting ancestry of precursors (Austin Osman Spare) but loses something in the translation... i.e. basing their imagery on Michael Moorcock and the Order of Templar Orientis seems to be rather contraindicative. OTO was originally the Egyptian Rites of Freemasonry started originally by Giovanni Balsamo (Cagliostro) and taken over and reworkd by Aleister Crowley. Fits my definition of a curiosity.

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in Germany in 1978 by two English occultists, Ray Sherwin and Peter Carroll.
Its formal name is "The Magical Pact of the Illunmiates of Thanareos";
the word thanateros is the fusion of the Greek thanatos (death) and eros
(sexual love)</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/i/illuminates_of_thanateros%20.html">The central focus is on Chaos magic</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/i/illuminates_of_thanateros%20.html">The emblem of the pact is a black circle from which eight black arrows
radiate, which is based on the "Banner of Chaos" taken from the
fantasy novels of the English author Michael Moorcock and other fantasy
fiction</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/i/illuminates_of_thanateros%20.html">There are four grades, degrees, of initiation:</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/i/illuminates_of_thanateros%20.html">Neophyte</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/i/illuminates_of_thanateros%20.html">Initiate</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/i/illuminates_of_thanateros%20.html">Adept</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/i/illuminates_of_thanateros%20.html">Magnus</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/i/illuminates_of_thanateros%20.html">honorary grade</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/i/illuminates_of_thanateros%20.html">Supreme Magnus</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/i/illuminates_of_thanateros%20.html">held by the head of the pact</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/i/illuminates_of_thanateros%20.html">the group's being came from the fusion
of Thelemic magic, <A href="http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/i/../t/tantrism.html">Tantria</A>, Taoism, and
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