To: thelema93-l@nosferatu.cas.usf.edu
From: Lawrence Eric Theden <Larry.Theden@lambada.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Gnostic Mass (9406.oto-egc.let)
Date: 49940610

From Tau Apiryon, EGC Bishop (from ALnet's HRILIU echo):

"Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica survives today as the ecclesiastical wing of Ordo
Templi Orientis.  It was separated from O.T.O. for a brief time in the late
1970's and early 1980's, but it was reunited with O.T.O. in 1985.  It does not
exist as a separate organization today, though lay membership in E.G.C. is
currently open to both O.T.O. initiates and non-initiates.  Its primary
activity is the celebration of the Gnostic Mass and other occasional
ceremonies, and serving the social and religious needs of its members."

So, while I'm nitpicking (we *are* talking about ordination, not lay
membership), it's not necessarily true that all EGC members are OTO as well.

93,
Larry