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* Expansion of the O.T.O., including the establishment of national Grand Lodges in the United States and Britain, and increased membership and local activity worldwide * Expansion of the O.T.O., including the establishment of national Grand Lodges in the United States and Britain, and increased membership and local activity worldwide
* Standard policies and improved standards of performance for initiations and the [[Gnostic Mass]] * Standard policies and improved standards of performance for initiations and the [[Gnostic Mass]]
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===Editorial work=== ===Editorial work===

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William Breeze was born in Paris, France on 12 August 1955. He studied music in New England, possibly at Harvard University, in the 1970s. He is a musician who plays electric viola, mandolin, guitar, bass and electronics. Breeze was a member of Coil from 1997 through 2004, playing electric viola.

Breeze has also played with Psychic TV and appears on Thee Fractured Garden (1995), Cold Blue Torch (1995), Trip Reset (1996), Spatial Memory (1996), and Thee Fractured Garden (2004) and is mostly credited as playing viola and viola synthesizer.

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Occult activities

Breeze has been involved in the occult since at least August of 1978, when he was initiated into the Minerval degree of Ordo Templi Orientis. During the next few years, he advanced through the Man of Earth degrees of O.T.O., taking his IV° & P.I. at Tahuti Lodge in New York City in January of 1985.

Following the death of Caliph Hymenaeus Alpha (Grady McMurtry), Breeze was elected as the new Caliph of Ordo Templi Orientis in a special election by all the active IX° members of O.T.O. He assumed the name Hymenaeus Beta.

Hymenaeus Beta

Frater Hymenaeus Beta XII° is the current Outer Head of the Order (O.H.O.) of Ordo Templi Orientis. He was elevated to that office in 1985, following the death of his predecessor, Grady McMurtry (Hymenaeus Alpha). As O.H.O., he holds supreme authority over O.T.O. In addition, the O.H.O. is ex officio the Patriarch of Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica, the liturgical arm of O.T.O.

Significant accomplishments during Hymenaeus Beta's reign include:

Editorial work

Breeze is well-known in the occult community, under his pseudonym Hymenaeus Beta, as the editor of many of the works of Aleister Crowley.

The works he has edited include:

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