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- FRATER HALAYL III°
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- Hymenaeus Alpha: In Memoriam
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- HYMENAEUS ALPHA 777 was born as Grady Louis McMurtry on October |8,
- |9|8 EV in Big Cabin, Oklahoma to Grady and Bee Ivery Puckett
- McMurtry. He became a member of Ordo Templi Orientis in June |94| when
- he was initiated to the O° and I° at Agapè Lodge, Pasadena. His first
- profession was that of a soldier; he served in the European theatre
- during WWII, enabling him to become a personal student of Aleister
- Crowley (with time off for D-Day, and the liberation of France and the
- low countries). In Fall 1943 he was initiated by Baphomet XI° into the
- IX° O.T.O. It was also Crowley who suggested he take the name
- `Umenaios A (Hymenaeus Alpha), which in Greek gematria adds to 777.
- A.C. wrote many letters discussing him as a Caliph, a future
- successor. Crowley was guarding against the possibility that Karl
- Germer (Saturnus X°), his ``heir apparent,'' might fail of an heir
- himself and endanger the continued existence of the O.T.O. After the
- war Grady returned to the U.S. and earned his B.A. in Philosophy at
- the University of California, Berkeley. He also acted as Crowley's
- Sovereign Grand Inspector General of the California O.T.O. In April
- |946 he received an appointment as Crowley's O.T.O. representative in
- the U.S.A., with ``his authority...to be considered as Ours.'' In the
- Korean War Major McMurtry returned to active duty in the U.S. Army. He
- then returned to Berkeley to complete a Masters in Political Theory.
- In the late 1950's he worked as a management analyst for the State
- Department of Labor in Sacramento, moving in |96| to Washington, D.C.
- to work for the Labor Department and the Washington Shakespeare
- Society. Karl Germer died in |962 and did indeed fail of an heir--
- McMurtry therefore returned to California and used his emergency
- powers from 666 as Caliph and de facto head of the O.T.O., presiding
- over the rebirth of the O.T.O. In his last years he did battle once
- again--in a courtroom rather than a beachhead. Here also his victory
- was complete--the world, as well as the Secret Master, acknowledged
- him King of this Templar Order. But the final victory of Grady
- McMurtry is yet coming--it lies in the freedom of all to do and love
- as they will. He died peacefully on July |2, |985 EV in San Pablo,
- California.