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PUBLICATIONS

ALETHEIA, Astrology in the New Aeon for Thelemites by J. Edward Cornelius

Black Jackal Press, Maine, 2011

THE MAGICKAL ESSENCE OF ALEISTER CROWLEY by J. Edward Cornelius

Berkeley, CA: Privately Published, hardback, 2010

IN THE NAME OF THE BEAST by J. Edward Cornelius

A two volume biography of Grady Louis McMurtry, a disciple of Aleister Edward Crowley

RED FLAME, A Thelemic Research Jounal, paperbacks 2005 ... No.12-VOLUME ONE: 1918-1961 and No.13-VOLUME TWO: 1962-1985

ALEISTER CROWLEY & THE OUIJA BOARD by J. Edward Cornelius

Feral House, paperback, 2005

CORNELIA (magazine)

From the man who brought you RED FLAME, A Thelemic Research Journal

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A.'.A.'. CLERK HOUSES (not all are listed)

A BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF J. EDWARD CORNELIUS

a.k.a. Frater Achad Osher 583

THE WARRIOR TROUBADOUR by J. Edward Cornelius

Being a biography about the Life of Grady Louis McMurtry

From RED FLAME, A Thelemic Research Journal, Issue No.1 The Poetyry of Grady Louis McMurtry (1994)

THE PHOTO ARCHIVE of Grady Louis McMurtry

THE POETRY OF GRADY LOUIS McMURTRY

In 1969, Grady would comment upon his poetry, writing - “I have been writing poetry since I was a teenager. Much to the amazement & shock

of my ‘Okie’ family who, I suspect, probably thought it was a sure indication that I was ‘queer’. But it has always been a very positive thing.

Something I did for my own amusement. Or edification. It would not be until relatively recently that I would see its fantastic potential in reinitiation.

To know that, by reaching ‘out’ in that blind, groping, intuitive sense, that I really could, when lucky, bring down ‘fire from heaven’.” He continued,

“Much of my poetry is ‘writing poetry.’ i.e. bumbling along, putting sentences together, imitating, even if only sometimes subconsciously because it

was the last book of poetry I read, somebody else in their style, technique. But then, once in awhile, I start writing ‘as a poet’. The floodgates of

inspiration open. You are acting as the ‘hand & pen’ for some universe outside the span of time. And it is at times like that, that one must most

beware, at least in my experience, of ‘tampering with the product’. And then will come those lines of initiatory experience that will tell you, rather

than you tell them. Or even ‘write’ them, for they are being written for you. To you thru you, as it were, from somebody else. Or at least from

somewhere else. Much of my initiatory experience has come from ‘letting it flow,’ and then trying to understand it later, even if it didn’t seem to

make much sense at the time. As the Greek poets used to say, ‘from the Gods’. And you wouldn’t believe how many times I have been absolutely

amazed as what I have ‘told’ myself, as it were, when thinking about it later. And then sometimes I have even told myself things that I have never

been able to understand even to this day."

GRADY LOUIS McMURTRY LETTER FILES

This section will include actual scans of letters, along with historical data, which we feel might help individuals to appreciate and understand the legacy of Grady Louis McMurtry.

THE CALIPH'S HEALTH

The Magickal Link Vol. V, No. 6 July 1985e.v. ... This issue caried a lengthy article titled The Caliph’s Health. It graphically described how Grady

McMurtry was suffering from pulmonary edema, a condition in which the lungs become swollen with fluids, causing strain on the heart muscle and how

he was not expected to live much longer. The article also talked about the OTO and what would happen to the Order if and when Grady died. Behind the

scenes, the OTO Board Meetings were filled with comments and Resolutions regarding everyone’s plans about the continuity of the Order and electing

Grady’s successor. ... Then, on July 12, before most members of the OTO had even received their copy of the July issue of The Magickal Link, Grady

Louis McMurtry passed away. He was sixty-six years old.

LAST WILL & TESTAMENT OF GRADY LOUIS McMURTRY

The story behind THE THELEMA LODGE CHARTER

THE MAGICKAL THESIS OF GRADY MCMURTRY

GRADY McMURTRY'S TAROT NOTES

"There are also pages upon pages of these hand written scribbled notes, showing Grady’s drawings and diagrams of his Angel & The Abyss cycle of

poetry in relationship to tarot and astrological attributions. Among these are his own designs for a tarot deck, but sadly these drawings are rudimentary,

extremely primitive and reveal little of his thinking process. In these notes he called his ambition, “A Tarot to accompany The Angel & The Abyss”, which

was meant to further elucidate his Thesis." ... from IN THE NAME OF THE BEAST, A biography of Grady Louis McMurtry, disciple of Aleister

Edward Crowley, Volume Two – 1962 -1985, by J. Edward Cornelius.

HOW ALEISTER CROWLEY CAME TO BERKELEY

From the BERKELEY BARB (newspaper) Berkeley, CA., Issue No.643 December 9-15, 1977

FROM THE CALIPH, a lengthy 'Series' of Interviews

First appearing in The Magickal Link starting with Volume 1 No.10 Oct.1981e.v. until his death ... 44 installments.

ONE WORLD OR NONE by Grady Louis McMurtry

RAP WITH THE CALIPH

From the O.T.O. Newsletter, Berkeley, California, Vol. I, No.1 An. LXXIIIe.n. May 1977

TALES FROM THE CALIPH, Continuity in the Order ... by Grady Louis McMurtry

From the O.T.O. Newsletter, Berkeley, California Vol. I, No.2 Autumn 1977-Spr

WHAT HAPPENED TO CROWLEY'S ASHES? by Grady Louis McMurtry

From the O.T.O. Newsletter, Berkeley, California Vol. I, No.2 Autumn 1977

THE MOTTO OF THE CALIPH by Grady Louis McMurtry

From the O.T.O. Newsletter, Berkeley, California Vol. I, No.3 December 1977

THE PROPHET AND HIS CALIPH by Grady Louis McMurtry

From the O.T.O. Newsletter, Berkeley, California, Vol. I, No.4 Spring Equinox 1978

KARL'S KARMA by Grady Louis McMurtry

From the O.T.O. Newsletter, Berkeley, California Vol. II, No.1 Summer Solstice 1978-Spri

ON THE CALIPHATE by Grady Louis McMurtry

From the O.T.O. Newsletter, Berkeley, California Vol. II, No.2 Autumnal Equinox, An. LXXIVe.n. September 1978

ON KNOWING ALEISTER CROWLEY PERSONALLY - Part One by Grady Louis McMurtry

From the O.T.O. Newsletter, Berkeley, California Vol. II, #7&8 [Double Issue] Winter-Spring, May 1979, pgs. 3-6

ON KNOWING ALEISTER CROWLEY PERSONALLY - Part Two by Grady Louis McMurtry

From the O.T.O. Newsletter, Berkeley, California Vol. III, No.9, Summer, August 1979, pgs. 3-7

ON KNOWING ALEISTER CROWLEY PERSONALLY - Part Three by Grady Louis McMurtry

From the O.T.O. Newsletter, Berkeley, California Vol. III, No.10&11 [Double Issue] Winter 1979-Spring 1980,

CLEAR CROWLEY'S NAME CAMPAIGN (circa 1943) by Grady Louis McMurtry

THE DYNAMICS OF EQUILIBRIUM (circa 1944-45) Version I by Grady Louis McMurtry

THE DYNAMICS OF EQUILIBRIUM (circa 1944-45) Version II by Grady Louis McMurtry

THE MILLENNIAL GLOW: Myth and Magic in the Marxist Ethic by Grady Louis McMurtry

University of California at Berkeley 1948; this being his Thesis submitted for Master of Arts degree in Political Science, 129 pgs.

AN HISTORICAL LETTER of JULY 9th 1974 by Grady Louis McMurtry

THE HOLY BOOKS Preface by Hymenaeus Alpha 777

This is the Preface written by Maj. Grady Louis McMurtry X° for the 1983 edition of "ΘΕΛΗΜΑ:

The Holy Books of Thelema." [Maine, Samuel Weiser, Inc] pgs. vii -xxvi ... Copyright (C) O.T.O.

FANTASIA July 1941 (magazine)

NEPENTHE (magazine)

THE OCCIDENT Spring 1946 (magazine)

THE MILITARY ENGINEER (magazine) March 1944 issue (Vol. XXXVI No. 221)

CONCERNING “MY BOOK” , AN INTERVIEW with CALIPH HYMENAEUS ALPHA 777

from: KAABA Newsletter Volume I Number 2, Summer 1978 e.v.

GRADY McMURTRY'S IDENTIFICATION CARDS of WORLD WAR II

(this being scans of the original document)

CAN YOU SPOT GRADY IN THE PHOTO?

(this being a scan of a newspaper article about 'draftees' during World War Two.

THE COSMIC TRIGGER, Final Secret of the Illuminati by Robert Anton Wilson

CA: Berkeley, And/Or Press 1977, Chapter: MYSTERY BABALON - the Crowleymas Party of October 12th 1974

THE OCCULT EXPLOSION by Nat Freedland

NY: Berkeley Medallion Books (trade paperback) 1972

THE MICHAEL HAMBURGER STORY

from Red Flame, A Thelemic Research Journal,

Issue No.3 Friends & Acquaintances of Aleister Crowley, (1996) pgs. 94-97

THE YOGI AND THE COMMINSSAR and other essays by Arthur Koestler

ALEISTER CROWLEY'S I-CHING STICKS by J. Edward Cornelius

LIBER OZ

STEPPING OUT OF THE OLD AEON INTO THE NEW by Frater Achad

THE BLOODLINE OF GRADY McMURTRY'S A.'.A.'.

Which also included THE HISTORY BEHIND GRADY McMURTRY'S LINEAGE

AN OPEN EPISTLE ON THE BIRTH OF A.'.A.'.

AN OPEN EPISTLE ON LINEAGES OF THE A.'.A.'.

AN OPEN EPISTLE ON CHANGES WITHIN OUR A.'.A.'.

AN OPEN EPISTLE ON THE DANGERS OF BEING A NEOPHYTE

AN EPISTLE ON THE THREE-FOLD STRUCTURE OF THE A.'.A.'.

... and the man of Earth [in general] being the 'Lecture Notes' of Frater Achad Osher 583 on Saturday June 21st 2008

AN OPEN EPISTLE ON CLERK HOUSES

AN OPEN EPISTLE ON THELEMIC GREETINGS AND THE USE OF '93'

AN OPEN EPISTLE ON OATHS

AN OPEN EPISTLE ON THE NOTION OF VERTICALITY by Frater ZLA282

AN OPEN EPISTLE ON VERTICAL & HORIZONTAL SCHOOLS

NEOPHYTE 1=10

ZELATOR 2=9

AN OPEN EPISTLE OF THE SPHERE OF YESOD (& its Qliphoth)

PRACTICUS 3=8

AN OPEN EPISTLE ON THE PRACTICUS

The relationship between this A.'.A.'. Degree and VIIth Degree OTO is explored in the Qabalistc sphere of Hod on the Tree of Life .

BLOG DISCUSSIONS

AN OPEN EPISTLE ON THE 'CIRCLE SQUARED - in magickal A.'.A.'.degree.

AN OPEN EPISTLE ON GUIDANCE: ANGELIC OR DEMONIC?

AN OPEN EPISTLE ON THE OATH OF THE ABYSS

AN OPEN EPISTLE TO THE FALLEN

AN OPEN EPISTLE ON THELOMITES - or 'of bugs and Gods'

AN OPEN EPISTLE ON THE MAGICAL DIARY

AN OPEN EPISTLE ON THE LESSER RITUAL OF THE PENTEGRAM

AN OPEN EPISTLE ON LINER RESH VEL HELIOS - Part I

AN OPEN EPISTLE ON LIBER RESH VEL HELIOS - Part II

AN OPEN EPISTLE ON THE EFFECT OF LIBER RESH ON THE RUACH

AND ITS CONNECTION TO HOD by Frater L.M.

AN OPEN EPISTLE ON AO583'S MIDDLE PILLAR MEDITATION

LIBER STELLA RUBEAE, A secret ritual of Apep, the Heart of IAO-OAI, delivered unto V.V.V.V.V.

for his use in a certain matter of Liber Legis, and written down under the figure LXVI.

AN OPEN EPISTLE ON THE MYSTERIES OF THE OTO

HEAVENLY BRIDEGROOMS by Ida Craddock

PSYCHIC WEDLOCK by Ida Craddock

Liber OS ABYSMI vel Daath, Svb Figvra CDLXXIV (474)

Crowley - "An instruction in a purely intellectual method of entering the Abyss."

Also known as The Book of the Mouth of the Abyss or of Knowledge (Daath).

KUNDALINI, TREE OF LIFE AND THE ZODIAC

AN OPEN EPISTLE ON CROWLEY'S ZODIAC BELT

Being a discourse of Crowley switching the paths and Thoth cards of Tzaddi, He, Lamed and Teth.

AN OPEN EPISTLE ON THE CODES FOUND IN LIBER AL VEL LEGIS

AN OPEN EPISTLE ON THE GRID FROM LIBER AL VEL LEGIS

AN OPEN EPISTLE ON THE COVER OF LIBER AL VEL LEGIS

AN OPEN EPISTLE ON QUIRKS WITH THE MANUSCRIPT

AN OPEN EPISTLE ON THE TUNIS COMMENT

AN OPEN EPISTLE ON AN ENGLISH QABALAH

AN OPEN EPISTLE ON THE ATTEMPTED EXPULSION OF FRATER ACHAD OSHER 583

Being the dispute between OTO & AA which includes AN OPEN EPISTLE ON STICKING ONE'S FOOT DOWN THEIR

THROAT AND OUT THEIR ASS IN ORDER TO LOOK AS IF THEY'RE STANDING PERFECTLY ERECT!

A BEASTLY LIFE OF ALEISTER CROWLEY (being a year by year biographical over-view of his life)

This is the original from 1994/95

OF BEASTLY ILLUSTRATIONS, ALEISTER CROWLEY IN COMICS

THE CHARACTER, ALEISTER CROWLEY

As portrayed in Novels and Short Stories, a novel image of Crowley

THE ALEISTER CROWLEY DESK REFERENCE

THE FRIENDS & ACQUAINTANCES OF ALEISTER CROWLEY

AN OPEN EPISTLE REGARDING FRANCIS KING' BOOK SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

AN OPEN EPISTLE ON THE OTO'S GNOSTIC CHURCH

A SYNOPSIS OF OTO LEADERSHIP

A Brief History of The Ancient Order of The Oriental Templars Also known as THE ORDO TEMPLI ORIENTIS.

AN EPISTLE ON RELIGION by Soror Meral

AN EPISTLE ON PROJECTIONS AND THE SHADOW by Soror Meral

THE DOOM THAT CAME TO CHELSEA by Alan Cabal

AN EPISTLE ON ENOCHIAN MAGICK

MYTHS OF THE SOLAR LODGE REVISITED

PARODIES & LAUGHTER (a work laughingly in progress)

ORICHALCOS - Yu-Gi-Oh

BOOKS THAT I THINK YOU MIGHT FIND INTERESTING (amusing reading list)

DR. GRADY SHANNON McMURTRY

[This is an on-line article about Grady McMurtry's son]

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PHOTO GALLERIES

1. - CROWLEYMAS 2007, held at J. Edward Cornelius' apartment. Click HERE.

2. - The 2008 Feast for the Three Days of The Writing of The Book of the Law. We

celebrated this event on Saturday April 5th 2008 at Leaping Laughter Clerk House

in Berkeley. Click HERE.

3. - CROWLEYMAS 2008, held at Leaping Laughter Clerk House. Click HERE.

4. - The 2009 Feast for the Three Days of The Writing of The Book of the Law. We

celebrated this event on Sunday April 12th 2009 at Leaping Laughter Clerk House

in Berkeley. Click HERE.

5. - HALLOWEEN 2009, held at Jay & Jeniffer's apartment in Berkeley.

6. - The 2011 Feast for the Three Days of The Writing of The Book of the Law. We

celebrated this event on Satur April 9th 2011 at Leaping Laughter Clerk House

in Berkeley. Click HERE.

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MEMORIAL PAGES

1. RICHARD CHRISTOPHER LEGENER aka CRISS PISS (1954 -1996)

2. CHRISTOPHER von DIETLER aka ZARDOZ (1954 - 2008)

3. STEPHEN COHEN aka SHADOW IGITUR ( - 2009)

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