Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.  

Academia Ordo Templi Orientis (AOTO) is pleased to announce a conference to be held in Gothenburg, Sweden on May 24, 2026 e.v.

The conference theme is "Crowley and the Continent."

Admission is 31.00 EUR for OTO members and 42.00 EUR for non-members. Please indicate your affiliation when purchasing the ticket if you are an OTO member.

Tickets can be reserved by sending an email to academia.treasurer@oto.org. Once you have reserved your ticket(s) you will be provided with the necesaary payment information.

Tickets are on sale until May 15, 2026 e.v.

The conference program is available here.

Founded in 2011, Academia Ordo Templi Orientis (AOTO) is a learned society consisting of initiate members of Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO) and academic affiliates. The goal of AOTO is to foster interdisciplinary research on OTO and the religious doctrine of Thelema that the Order promotes, as well as on broader subjects related to esoteric traditions, both historical and contemporary. Membership in AOTO is by invitation only. AOTO convenes conferences and issues periodic transactions. For more information contact academia@oto.org.

  Love is the law, love under will.

 

Richard Kaczynski, Secretary
Academia Ordo Templi Orientis  

SCHEDULE MAY 24, 2026

8:30 – 9:00 am, Registration

9:00-9:15 am, Gordan Djurdjevic – Opening Remarks

9:15-10_45 am, Session 1: Moderator, Gordan Djurdjevic

1. 2. 3. Henrik Bogdan - A Life of Evil: Aleister Crowley in the Swedish Press, 1896–1947

Patrizia Ebner - A School of Life: Annemarie Aeschbach and a Swiss Pedagogical

Reading of Thelema

Stephen J. King – "He is really a great man on A∴A∴ lines": Alfred Adler and Aleister

Crowley

10:45-11:00 am, Break

11:00 am- 12:30 pm, Session 2: Moderator, Richard Kaczynski

1. 2. 3. William Peters - Alys’ Adventures in Wonderland

Manon Hedenborg White - The Scarlet Woman and the Mathematician: Charisma

and Intimate Relationships in Early Thelema

Christian Giudice – Breaking the Habit: Crowley’s Fountain of Hyacinth and the

Continental Reframing of Drug Addiction

12:30-1:30 pm, Lunch Break

1:30-3:00 pm, Session 3: Moderator, Manon Hedenborg-White

1. 2. 3. Keith Cantù - Crowley, Quietismo, and Yoga

Gordan Djurdjevic - Aleister Crowley: Traditionalist! Musings on Prisci Theologi and

Related Concepts in the Doctrine of Thelema

Patrick Everitt - From Aiwass to Aiwaz: Aleister Crowley’s evolving ideas about the

praeterhuman authorship of Liber AL vel Legis

3:00-3:15, Break

3:15-4:45 pm, Session 4: Moderator, Henrik Bogdan

1. Matthew Andrews - “Bound to the Soul of the Order”: C.F. Russell and the Abbey of

Thelema

2. Richard Kaczynski - From Cefalù to Fleet Street: The British Press Reception of

Crowley’s Abbey of Thelema

3. William Breeze, TBA

4:45:5:00 pm, Break

5:00-5:45 pm, Keynote Lecture: Marleen Thaler - The Serpent and the Beast: The Use

of Serpent Imagery in Modern Occult Writings

5:45-6:00 pm, Gordan Djurdjevic, Closing Remarks