Authority

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

The A∴A∴ descends from teacher to student, one link at a time. This page records the line as it stands.

The Chain

1. AiwassThe Book of the Law delivered in Cairo, April 8–10, 1904.
2. ΤΟ ΜΕΓΑ ΘΗΡΙΟΝ (Aleister Crowley) The Beast 666, scribe and prophet of the Book of the Law, Magus of the Aeon. Founded the A∴A∴ in 1907. Died 1947.
3. Frater S. (Karl Germer) Crowley's successor at his death; a Master of the Temple. Head of the Work from 1947; received Motta into the A∴A∴ in 1953. Died 1962.
4. Frater A. (Marcelo Ramos Motta) Sole Officer of the Great Order after the death of Germer. Died 1987.
5. Frater S.U.A.Student of Motta, acknowledged by him an Adeptus Minor. Swore the Oath of the Abyss under Motta. Reconstituted the Order with Frater V. (J. Daniel Gunther) in 1988 and performed the first Neophyte initiations of the modern era; from 1992, Cancellarius in the Governing Triad with Fratres V. and V.V. (William Breeze, Hymenaeus Beta, the Outer Head of the Order of the O.T.O.). He was replaced by Frater I.T. as Cancellarius.
6. Frater L.R.H. Received as a Probationer in 2014 by Frater I.T., Cancellarius of the A∴A∴, as T.B.T.E.; initiated as Frater S.E.T., a Neophyte, in Turin, Italy, in the summer of 2016, by Frater I.T.; completed the Work of the Outer College under the hand of Frater S.U.A., and admitted by him into the Inner College as an Adeptus Minor on January 26, 2020, as Frater π. After swearing the Oath of the Abyss, Frater π became a Magister Templi, 8° = 3□, under the motto L.R.H.

Love is the law, love under will.