Mithras Encampment is a local body of Ordo Templi Orientis chartered in the valley of Windham, Connecticut. This O.T.O. body is a resource and community for free men and women, that they may gather to give aid, comfort and support to each other in the Great Work.
Mithras Encampment seeks to promulgate the law of Thelema and to promote the liberty of the individual. We meet to kindle light, excite life, rouse love, foster peace, cherish tolerance and illuminate truth.
"Thus spoke the old magician, looked around cunningly and then reached for his harp...
In dim, de-lighted air
When the dew's comfort is beginning,
To well down to the earth,
Unseen, unheard -
For tender is the footwear of
the comforter dew, as of all that gently comfort -
Do you remember then, remember, hot heart,
How you thirsted once?
For heavenly tears and dripping dew,
Thirsting, scorched and weary,
While on yellow paths in the grass
The glances of the evening sun were running
Maliciously around you through black trees -
blinding, glowing glances of the sun, mocking your pain?"
-St. Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Fourth Part, The Song of Melancholy