 "La Couleuvre Noire" (The Black Snake) is an independent order founded in 1922, closely cooperating with the O.T.O.A.It is dedicated to the practice of advanced techniques of Gnostic Voudon, a system of "Afro-Atlantean magic".Today, Courtney Willis (Tau Ogdoade-Orfeo VIII) is the Hierophant and the Sovereign Grand Master Absolute (SGMA) of the L.C.N.