Ordo Templi Orientis was originally founded as a highly secretive fraternal organization modeled directly after Freemasonry, but it quickly became an infamous mystical group…

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Ordo Templi Orientis was originally founded as a highly secretive fraternal organization modeled directly after Freemasonry, but it quickly became an infamous mystical group heavily dedicated to practicing controversial sex magic. Aleister Crowley eventually took over the entire operation, completely rewriting their sacred rituals to focus intensely on using highly specific physical acts to mysteriously manifest your deepest desires into physical reality. Members genuinely believed that by perfectly timing their peaks with intense mental concentration and complex astrological charts, they could effectively bend the entire fabric of the universe to their absolute will. While this initially sounds like a brilliantly convenient excuse for a bunch of eccentric British occultists to throw deeply wild parties, they treated these bizarre bedroom rituals with massive, unironic spiritual seriousness. It remains incredibly hilarious that some of the most feared dark magicians of the twentieth century literally believed the absolute key to unlocking unlimited cosmic power was just aggressively treating the bedroom like a physics laboratory!