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FRATER HALAYL III<49>
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Hymenaeus Alpha: In Memoriam
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HYMENAEUS ALPHA 777 was born as Grady Louis McMurtry on October |8,
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|9|8 EV in Big Cabin, Oklahoma to Grady and Bee Ivery Puckett
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McMurtry. He became a member of Ordo Templi Orientis in June |94| when
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he was initiated to the O<> and I<> at Agap<61> Lodge, Pasadena. His first
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profession was that of a soldier; he served in the European theatre
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during WWII, enabling him to become a personal student of Aleister
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Crowley (with time off for D-Day, and the liberation of France and the
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low countries). In Fall 1943 he was initiated by Baphomet XI<58> into the
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IX<EFBFBD> O.T.O. It was also Crowley who suggested he take the name
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`Umenaios A (Hymenaeus Alpha), which in Greek gematria adds to 777.
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A.C. wrote many letters discussing him as a Caliph, a future
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successor. Crowley was guarding against the possibility that Karl
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Germer (Saturnus X<>), his ``heir apparent,'' might fail of an heir
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himself and endanger the continued existence of the O.T.O. After the
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war Grady returned to the U.S. and earned his B.A. in Philosophy at
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the University of California, Berkeley. He also acted as Crowley's
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Sovereign Grand Inspector General of the California O.T.O. In April
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|946 he received an appointment as Crowley's O.T.O. representative in
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the U.S.A., with ``his authority...to be considered as Ours.'' In the
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Korean War Major McMurtry returned to active duty in the U.S. Army. He
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then returned to Berkeley to complete a Masters in Political Theory.
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In the late 1950's he worked as a management analyst for the State
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Department of Labor in Sacramento, moving in |96| to Washington, D.C.
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to work for the Labor Department and the Washington Shakespeare
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Society. Karl Germer died in |962 and did indeed fail of an heir--
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McMurtry therefore returned to California and used his emergency
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powers from 666 as Caliph and de facto head of the O.T.O., presiding
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over the rebirth of the O.T.O. In his last years he did battle once
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again--in a courtroom rather than a beachhead. Here also his victory
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was complete--the world, as well as the Secret Master, acknowledged
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him King of this Templar Order. But the final victory of Grady
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McMurtry is yet coming--it lies in the freedom of all to do and love
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as they will. He died peacefully on July |2, |985 EV in San Pablo,
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California.
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