Location: Wolverhampton
This was run by ‘ Wardens’ and had its HQ at the ‘ Lodge’ in Penn, near Wolverhampton, a rather dreary village on the edge of the Black Country and one of the last places you would expect to find such an outfit.
Its aim was to ‘ train its students in the group’s approach to Ceremonial Magic’ and their system was based on the Qabalah and The Golden Dawn. The Order also had its own system of ‘Enochian Magic’. I wonder if this was anything to do with Enoch Powell, who was a prominent figure at the time and who lived just a few miles from Penn.
**This photo is of the property that was used by by the OCS in the early 1970s. The upstairs bay window was the temple room, fully decorated with occult paraphernalia and a symbolic Vault of the Adepts. Underneath was the library and lecture room. The office was in the room over the small vaulted area. In those days lecture notes, leaflets and booklets were all produced using a gestetner machine which usually meant hands and fingers well coated with ink.