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Berkeley, CA: Privately Published, hardback, 2010A two volume biography of Grady Louis McMurtry, a disciple of Aleister Edward CrowleyRED FLAME, A Thelemic Research Jounal, paperbacks 2005No.12-VOLUME ONE: 1918-1961 and No.13-VOLUME TWO: 1962-1985Feral House, paperback, 2005From the man who brought you RED FLAME, A Thelemic Research Journal------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------a.k.a. Frater Achad Osher 583---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Being a biography about the Life of Grady Louis McMurtryFrom RED FLAME, A Thelemic Research Journal, Issue No.1 The Poetyry 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, asit 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. NEW - added 6/7/2010"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 tarotdeck, but sadly these drawings are rudimentary, extremely primitive and reveal little of his thinking process. In these notes hecalled his ambition, “A Tarot to accompany The Angel & The Abyss”, which was meant to further elucidate his Thesis." ... fromIN 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, 1977First 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-SprFrom the O.T.O. Newsletter, Berkeley, California Vol. I, No.2 Autumn 1977 THE MOTTO OF THE CALIPH by Grady Louis McMurtryFrom the O.T.O. Newsletter, Berkeley, California Vol. I, No.3 December 1977From 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-Spriby Grady Louis McMurtry From the O.T.O. Newsletter, Berkeley, California Vol. II, No.2 Autumnal Equinox, An. LXXIVe.n. September 1978by Grady Louis McMurtryFrom the O.T.O. Newsletter, Berkeley, California Vol. II, #7&8 [Double Issue] Winter-Spring, May 1979, pgs. 3-6by Grady Louis McMurtry From the O.T.O. Newsletter, Berkeley, California Vol. III, No.9, Summer, August 1979, pgs. 3-7by Grady Louis McMurtry From the O.T.O. Newsletter, Berkeley, California Vol. III, No.10&11 [Double Issue] Winter 1979-Spring 1980, by Grady Louis McMurtry THE MILLENNIAL GLOW: Myth and Magic in the Marxist Ethic by Grady Louis McMurtryUniversity of California at Berkeley 1948; this being his Thesis submitted for Master of Arts degree in Political Science, 129 pgs.by Grady Louis McMurtry 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.March 1944 issue (Vol. XXXVI No. 221)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 1974THE OCCULT EXPLOSION by Nat FreedlandNY: Berkeley Medallion Books (trade paperback) 1972---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------NEOPHYTE 1=10ZELATOR 2=9 PRACTICUS 3=8The relationship between this A.'.A.'. Degree and VIIth Degree OTO is explored in the Qabalistc sphere of Hodon the Tree of Life . ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------BLOG DISCUSSIONS---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------for his use in a certain matter of Liber Legis, and written down under the figure LXVI.LXVI
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------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).---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Being a discourse of Crowley switching the paths and Thoth cards of Tzaddi, He, Lamed and Teth.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Being the dispute between OTO & AA which includes AN OPEN EPISTLE ON STICKING ONE'S FOOT DOWN THEIRTHROAT AND OUT THEIR ASS IN ORDER TO LOOK AS IF THEY'RE STANDING PERFECTLY ERECT! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------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. [This is an on-line article about Grady McMurtry's son] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PHOTO GALLERIES 2. - The 2008 Feast for the Three Days of The Writing of The Book of the Law. Wecelebrated this event on Saturday April 5th 2008 at Leaping Laughter Clerk House 4. - The 2009 Feast for the Three Days of The Writing of The Book of the Law. Wecelebrated this event on Sunday April 12th 2009 at Leaping Laughter Clerk House 5. - CROWLEYMAS 2009 (no photos that we can dare publish)---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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