Aleister Crowley and O.T.O. are frequently labeled as evil. Several Christian churches consider O.T.O. to be Satanic (although the tenets of Thelema do not include Satan or his worship) despite a dearth of evidence to support the claim.
There are those, including occultists and Thelemites of other organisations, such as members of Grant's Typhonian Ordo Templi Orientis, who do not agree that O.T.O. as revived by McMurtry is the sole legitimate continuation of the Order as headed by Aleister Crowley. Those who hold such views tend to refer to the O.T.O. as revived by McMurtry as the "Caliphate" O.T.O. (based on McMurtry's title of Caliph) so as to distinguish it from other organizations that use the name "Ordo Templi Orientis". There are even members of the O.T.O. as revived by McMurtry who refer to the organization as the "Caliphate", though this is discouraged.
Other organizations that use the O.T.O. name and consider themselves to be legitimate continuations of O.T.O., are O.T.O. Foundation, Albion O.T.O., The Parzival XIA° O.T.O. Foundation.
In 2002, an ex-member writing under the pseudonym Satyr published on the web 'The Black Lodge of Santa Cruz', a detailed account of events from his viewpoint in O.T.O., Inc.
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"'The Devil' is, historically, the God of any people that one personally dislikes. This has led to so much confusion of thought that THE BEAST 666 has preferred to let names stand as they are, and to proclaim simply that AIWAZ --- the solar-phallic-hermetic 'Lucifer' is His own Holy Guardian Angel, and 'The Devil' SATAN or HADIT of our particular unit of the Starry Universe." - Magick in Theory and Practice.
"Thou Satan-Sun Hadith that goest without Will! [...] The Eye! Satan, my Lord! The Lust of the goat!" - Liber Samekh.
So, if Satan = Hadit, how can you say there is a dearth of evidence?
Crowley used Satan or the Devil in two contexts:
1) As a generic symbol for rebellion.
2) Grouped with other gods whose names represented the South: Satan, Set, Seth, Sat, etc.
The Book of the Law is primarily Egyptian and Thelemites accept the Egyptian gods without sharing Crowley's constant need to rebel against his parents' religion.
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