A balanced, informed, and critical evaluation of OTSI
Name: Order of the Temple of Secret Initiates (Templar Collegia)
Alias: OTSI (not to be confused with OSTI), Templar Collegia (not to be confused with Templar College)
Grand Master: Timothy Hogan
Size: Small/Medium
Templarism Approach: Esoteric
Website(s): https://www.templarcollegia.org/
Clarity of Succession: Low
Relations with other Branches: Maintains very limited relations, has lost relations with notable Orders.
Archive: Unknown, presumed medium
Respectability: Low
Unique Holdings:
- Timothy Hogan is a lecturer and author of numerous book on Freemasonry, Templarism and Esotericism.
- Timothy Hogan claims a myriad of Templar, Rosicrucian and Masonic lineages from high profile esoteric teachers of the past – with very little evidence, or those that he had received were revoked.
Pros:
- Offers to members of the organization also the degrees of Martinism.
Cons:
- Timothy Hogan was Grand Master of OSTI from 2011-2016. In 2015, Timothy Hogan was voted to be removed as Grand Master of OSTI. In 2016, they accepted his resignation. He was asked to return the archives entrusted to him, of which he refused, but eventually gave back a portion. He proceeds to use these materials in his published works and as the basis of the teachings of his new organization. He has been issued several Cease and Desist letters by both OSTI as well as legal representatives regarding the use and return of the archives still in his possession. However ignoring these requests.
- Timothy Hogan often makes claims of his legitimacy – with little to no evidence or of those which can be contradicted by documented evidence.
- Timothy Hogan is known to frequently make wild claims of secret knowledge that are contrary to history. One example: Hogan has claimed there are actually ten Arks of the Covenant, six of which are in possession of the Templars today. He claims to have personally seen one of them in the United States. Source.
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