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The following list of essays are those written by members of Grady Louis McMurtry's A.'.A.'. Lineage.
Some have been made available to the public.
GRADY LOUIS McMURTRY (1918-1985)
Being a biography about the Life of Grady Louis McMurtry
From RED FLAME, A Thelemic Research Journal, Issue No.1 The Poetry of Grady Louis McMurtry (1994)
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."
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 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.
"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.
From the BERKELEY BARB (newspaper) Berkeley, CA., Issue No.643 December 9-15, 1977
First appearing in The Magickal Link starting with Volume 1 No.10 Oct.1981e.v. until his death ... 44 installments.
From the O.T.O. Newsletter, Berkeley, California, Vol. I, No.1 An. LXXIIIe.n. May 1977
From the O.T.O. Newsletter, Berkeley, California Vol. I, No.2 Autumn 1977-Spring 1978
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
From the O.T.O. Newsletter, Berkeley, California, Vol. I, No.4 Spring Equinox 1978
From the O.T.O. Newsletter, Berkeley, California Vol. II, No.1 Summer Solstice 1978-Spring 79
From the O.T.O. Newsletter, Berkeley, California Vol. II, No.2 Autumnal Equinox, An. LXXIVe.n. September 1978
From the O.T.O. Newsletter, Berkeley, California Vol. II, #7&8 [Double Issue] Winter-Spring, May 1979, pgs. 3-6
From the O.T.O. Newsletter, Berkeley, California Vol. III, No.9, Summer, August 1979, pgs. 3-7
From the O.T.O. Newsletter, Berkeley, California Vol. III, No.10&11 [Double Issue] Winter 1979-Spring 1980
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.
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.
from: KAABA Newsletter Volume I Number 2, Summer 1978 e.v.
(this being scans of the original document)
(this being a scan of a newspaper article about 'draftees' during World War Two.
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
from Red Flame, A Thelemic Research Journal,
Issue No.3 Friends & Acquaintances of Aleister Crowley, (1996) pgs. 94-97
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Which also included THE HISTORY BEHIND GRADY McMURTRY'S LINEAGE
... and the man of Earth [in general] being the 'Lecture Notes' of Frater Achad Osher 583 on Saturday June 21st 2008
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NEOPHYTE 1=10
ZELATOR 2=9
PRACTICUS 3=8
The relationship between this A.'.A.'. Degree and VIIth Degree OTO is explored in the Qabalistc sphere of Hod on the Tree of Life .
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BLOG DISCUSSIONS
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for his use in a certain matter of Liber Legis, and written down under the figure LXVI.
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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).
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Being a discourse of Crowley switching the paths and Thoth cards of Tzaddi, He, Lamed and Teth.
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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!
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This is the original from 1994/95
As portrayed in Novels and Short Stories, a novel image of Crowley
A Brief History of The Ancient Order of The Oriental Templars Also known as THE ORDO TEMPLI ORIENTIS.
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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
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
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
7. - On August 31st 2015 occurred the Marriage of J. Edward & Erica M Cornelius.
If you'd like to see the photos, Click HERE.
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