36 Facts About Phyllis Seckler

Phyllis Seckler was a student of Jane Wolfe, herself a student of Aleister Crowley.

Phyllis Seckler was a member of the Agape Lodge, the only working Lodge of the OT.

Phyllis Seckler was born in Edmonton, Canada on 18 June 1917.

Phyllis Seckler then got a job with a bank and attended drama classes in Hollywood conducted by Regina Kahl who was a member of Ordo Templi Orientis.

Phyllis Seckler attended The Gnostic Mass written by Crowley and met Wilfred Talbot Smith and actress Jane Wolfe.

Phyllis Seckler joined her class in January 1937 as she was bored with her job in the bank and found that it was quite a challenge to memorize her parts and to put on the skits and small plays which Kahl had asked of the class.

Phyllis Seckler often mentioned matters having to do with Thelema and quotes from Crowley.

Phyllis Seckler joined the crowd and soon their group went upstairs to the second floor and thence to the attic of the house and heard the play with a good deal of enjoyment.

Phyllis Seckler was attracted by an atmosphere and took the occasion to attend the Gnostic Mass several times that summer, often with Paul Phyllis Seckler who later became her husband, or another friend.

Phyllis Seckler made a friend of Ron Hubbard, as well as becoming friends with Wilfred Smith.

Phyllis Seckler subsequently moved into the large house rented by the OT.

Phyllis Seckler later met Marcelo Motta who was introduced to her by Germer and wrote to him but his letters showed a dictatorial attitude towards her.

Agape Lodge, of which Phyllis Seckler was a long-standing member, was the only working Lodge of the OT.

Phyllis Seckler moved these literary materials to a house in Hampton, New Jersey, where he set up a dedicated library and began the work of filing and record keeping.

Phyllis Seckler was unaware that there were copies made and many of her actions and concerns were based on the belief that there was only one copy extant of Crowley's unpublished writings.

In 1951, when Germer was in Hampton, New Jersey, Phyllis Seckler wrote about her concern that some of the unpublished works of Crowley might be lost unless some copies were made.

Phyllis Seckler agreed about her concern and the upshot of this correspondence was that Seckler began to type copies.

Phyllis Seckler had been living in New Jersey for about seven years and at first did not have a regular base of operations in California.

Phyllis Seckler then set up the Head Office of the OT.

Phyllis Seckler was almost the first one to be informed by Germer's widow of his death.

Intuitively, Phyllis Seckler was alarmed that the materials should be guarded only by Germer's widow and felt that something was terribly wrong in South California.

In 1967, Phyllis Seckler was informed that there had been a theft of items that were considered a part of OT.

Since this was an outright fabrication, Phyllis Seckler decided to find who the thieves might be.

Phyllis Seckler visited Seckler to let her know about some thefts from her own apartment by one of her trusted students after her husband's death in the summer of 1965.

Germer's widow Sascha died on 1 April 1975, but Phyllis Seckler only heard about it a year later.

Helen Parsons Smith and Phyllis Seckler drove to Germer's house in West Point in late April 1976 and discovered that Sascha had been dead for a year and that the house had been vandalised three times or more since her death, as it was almost impossible to lock it up properly.

Phyllis Seckler learned that McMurtry, who had met Crowley, held letters of authorization from Crowley in regards to the OT.

Phyllis Seckler later re-activated the Order with McMurtry by invoking his "emergency powers" to reconstitute the order, which had flagged following Germer's death.

McMurtry and Phyllis Seckler were both longstanding members of the OT.

Under her pen name Soror Meral, Phyllis Seckler served as a Master of 418 Lodge of OT.

Phyllis Seckler was co-founder of the Temple of Thelema.

Phyllis Seckler campaigned for the empowerment of women in the Thelemic community with a particular focus on women whose contribution to the Thelemic movement was overlooked.

Phyllis Seckler convinced many women to fight for working rights, reproductive rights, and recognition.

Phyllis Seckler used her skills as a writer to publicise Thelemic women's cause in her bi-annual journal In The Continuum, aiming to raise awareness on important Thelemic matters such as gender equality, often expressing her criticism of certain Thelemic groups who would only accept those women who had social status and good education.

Phyllis Seckler wished to give opportunities to disadvantaged Thelemites, including those suffering from poverty and illiteracy, inviting them to submit their articles and illustrations for her Thelemic periodical.

Phyllis Seckler wished to make use of the technology of cinema to make Thelema more accessible to a wider audience.