We welcome your comments, feedback, and ideas. You can contact the Order by
emailing our
Membership in the OSOGD
Are you interested in membership in the OSOGD? Here are some things you will want to know up front:
We provide referrals to our Lodges based on
your location. You
may contact them by sending email to our
.
We do not accept members who live at a distance from us, but we can provide
referrals to our Lodges based on your location. You may contact them by
sending email to our
The OSOGD does not provide long-distance or "astral" initiations. Our
initiations are performed only on a physically present candidate and our
teaching requires regular attendance. Therefore, if you seek actual
initiation into the Order you must arrange to travel to a working Lodge to
receive it, and live near enough to work with us in one of our Lodges.
To become a member of OSOGD, you must be 18 years of age or older.
If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area and would like to pursue membership
with the OSOGD, please contact the
. You will receive an
email that will explain and begin our membership application process.
Anyone is free to use the materials on our website for study and practice,
for yourselves or if you wish to gather a study group together. (You may wish
to review our Operational Principles
elsewhere on our website for further information about the OSOGDs organizational
structure.) Everything that is currently available in terms of rituals, knowledge
lectures, etc. is published on the website. At this time we are not set up to
provide a correspondence course or similar on-going support.
Individual OSOGD lodges may charge their members dues as they see fit. Currently Het-Nuit Lodge members pay $60.00 USD per year to help cover the cost of temple supplies and other expenses. No one is turned away for financial reasons.
OSOGD Temples
Our policy for forming a Temple is:
Go for it! The rituals are there for you to use.
It is more important to meet and work than build infrastructure.
Have fun making tools.
Play with the Rituals.
If you want, tell us what you doing.
Group Affiliation with the OSOGD
Are you a member or leader of a group that is interested in affiliating with
the OSOGD? We welcome comity and relationship with other groups. Please see our
Operational Principles which outline
our current approach to group structures and relationships within our Order. You
may wish simply to form a Temple (see above), use the rituals, and if you wish,
keep in touch with us about your work. If you desire a closer relationship, you
may wish to form a Sister Lodge. Please review the Principles
and let us know what would work for you.
Groups who choose to associate or affiliate with us may be asked for a nominal fee to support infrastructure costs.
If you would like to pursue affiliation with the OSOGD, please contact the
. You will receive an
email explaining and initiating our online affiliation application process.
If youre not interested in affiliating with us, please feel free to contact us anyway and let us know youre out there. We welcome contact with other groups and individuals doing this Work. Let us know youre out there