Thread by @templeofheresy

@FraterOTD Eventually he made it obvious to me that I was wrong, and I ended my association with Marco because of his worsening behaviour towards me. And I left both Magick Without Tears where I was a moderator for years, and as an “anointed” member of Ecclesia Gnostica Universalis.

@FraterOTD One because of multiple complaints I received from his students that showed me this was a pattern of someone addicted to conflict and degrading others, not just him fighting problematic people online.

@FraterOTD The other reason I left, and the reason I gave Marco in detail was because he proved it to me beyond doubt by the degrading way he decided to speak to me when I had done nothing that could have upset him, the complete repeated criticisms and dismissal of my boundaries,

@FraterOTD and finally an attempt at shaming me into giving him my time and working for what is his business - for free, and at the expense of my own business which back then had been struggling, and only just started improving, and he knew.

@FraterOTD When I pointed out to him just how much I’d done for him, he commissioned me offering to pay (for the first time in literally years), instead of apologising and acknowledging his behaviour. It did nothing but show me that he severely lacks empathy and emotional intelligence.

@FraterOTD The really stupid thing is, he was bitching in his moderator channel about the “entitlement” of people applying for free places on his course that HE offered, very close to these events. Doesn’t acknowledge his own entitlement though. Never his own.

@FraterOTD And according to him when confronted, he treats everyone like this but treated me better than he does most people. Am I meant to feel honoured? Also according to him, he doesn’t care what anyone thinks about the way he treats them,

@FraterOTD because they can either put up with it or leave. Except on many occasions, he acts the victim when people leave. And it’s been going on for years. He behaved himself a little bit better ONLY when Watkins told him they wouldn’t publish his book if he didn’t.

@FraterOTD For those who see this in MWT, those “leadership failures” he mentioned when I left, while also victimising himself about how hard life was for HIM during the pandemic… he didn’t admit those failures to me. He defended them.

@FraterOTD That move he made pretending he actually respected my decision was to save face because I was prominent enough for my absence to be noticed and questioned.

@FraterOTD According to Marco, I and the rest of the moderators would have failed the A∴A∴, and we’re all disappointments. These people who help him keep his business going and provide feedback for his work (for free, while he gets paid).

@FraterOTD And in the A∴A∴ we wouldn’t be spending our free time propping up his or anyone else’s business, nor paying for magical tuition to keep a roof over his head.

@FraterOTD The people he has for EGU are also not good enough as I discovered when he bitched to Lilith Vala Xara on Twitter about needing “better people” to afford a temple space, because we don’t have sufficient wealth by his standards,

@FraterOTD when he himself spent over a year complaining relentlessly about being broke. Unfortunately he deleted the Tweet, but he said it.

Maybe free tuition is baked into the A∴A∴ for a good reason… to avoid exploitation.

@FraterOTD Also keen to note that Marco threw a tantrum stating how I needed to be present as a moderator when I wanted to take a magical retirement. He actively tried to obstruct me from doing what I joined his community to do.

@FraterOTD So maybe that’s the real reason he sees no need for “hierarchies” - because what this person wants is only him, and everyone else to serve under him obediently without question, because he is the very same cult leader that he spends his life fighting against.

@FraterOTD And this is like 10%. I’ve not even touched on the lies around his involvement in that dispute with Damien Echols that he’s blamed his ex-students for, which I called him out on at the time when he first started planting the seeds in the moderator channel that he was "led astray"

@FraterOTD I’ve not even told other people’s stories that still come in regularly, again upset at the way he’s still degrading them, & others who’ve noticed his behaviour, especially towards women, hypocrisy, & smear campaigns, because these issues are still ongoing, often behind a paywall.

@FraterOTD This isn’t a case of Marco being dramatic. Or grumpy. Or having a no-bullshit approach to magick. Or Covid. Or “Truth”, or “True Will”, or any other word one could use to soften or spiritually bypass the fact that this man is abusive.

@FraterOTD Marco is exactly the same type of bully he likes to fight online. And everyone he takes issue with, whether it’s students he decides aren’t good enough, or anyone who disagrees with him, doesn’t conform to what he wants, or refuses to pander to his demands in any way,

@FraterOTD all get subjected to his rage outbursts, degradation, false judgements and belittlement. It’s not all fascists, people in the O.T.O., 4chan-ners and anti-vaxxers. It’s his own students too, and a good chunk of them women.

@FraterOTD And facts are, plenty of people have had doubts about Marco because of the sheer amount of accusations he receives. Myself included for a long time, and eventually I stopped rationalising his behaviour, stopped accepting his reasoning, and instead accepted that I’d befriended,

@FraterOTD defended and lined the pockets of a person who has failed as a self-imposed leader in every way, has been given every chance in private to accept feedback, learn and correct his behaviour, and yet continues stating that everyone else is the problem. He’s the common denominator.

@FraterOTD The Lamen of Master Therion on his Twitter header is something I made that he didn't pay for. He's been using it on his ads. Because he can't take no for an answer either.