Ithell Colquhoun
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Ithell Colquhoun was a British painter, occultist, poet and author. Stylistically her artwork was affiliated with Surrealism. In the early 1930s she met André Breton in Paris, and later started workin
Ithell Colquhoun
Colquhoun's interest in Surrealism deepened after seeing Salvador Dalí lecture in 1936
Ordo Templi Orientis
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Ordo Templi Orientis is an occult secret society and hermetic magical organization founded at the beginning of the 20th century. The origins of O.T.O. can be traced back to the German-speaking occulti
Ithell Colquhoun
…Colquhoun was part of the British Surrealist Group before being expelled because she refused to renounce her association with occult groups, including the Ordo Templi Orientis and the Fellowship of Isis. Despite her break with the movement, Colquhoun was a lifelong adherent to Surrealism and its automatic techniques. Colquhoun…
Organisation of O.T.O., the diagram (from 1926) in German shows the organization's original structure.