Here’s a great essay on Sister Phyllis Seckler aka Soror Meral by Harper Feist that was posted earlier this year at HorneOfCerastes. If you haven’t encountered accounts of Seckler’s life (and it took me several years in the Order before I came across anything more than passing mentions in Equinox III:10) you owe it to yourself to dig in. Part of the intro to this piece states:
“…she was the hardest working woman (and quite simply one of the hardest working initiates) in Thelema. She was a member of the Sovereign Sanctuary of the Gnosis in the Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.), a mother, an artist, taught art in a high school and typed many Crowley manuscripts, preserving them for the future. She was a thoughtful student of the occult, a member of both in the A.’.A.’. and the O.T.O., and also very serious about her astrological studies. She founded the College of Thelema , and later warranted the formation of its continuation as the International College of Thelema and the Temple of the Silver Star. In addition, she was also the editor of In the Continuum, the College’s journal, for almost 25 years.”
Amidst all this, arguably her most important contribution to the history of our order is that she helped re-birth the O.T.O, which was all but dead in 1969, all the while carrying on her teaching and training, and supporting Grady McMurtry. In the name of the missing women’s group, I’d like to acquaint you with her story.
http://hornsofcerastes.blogspot.com/2016/02/progenitrix-soror-meral-mother-of.html?spref=fb&m=1
