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Periodical: O. T. O. Newsletter

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

O.T.O. Newsletter.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. -- Liber Al: 1, 40.
1977--1983 Quarterly, irregular.
Berkeley, CA. .
Language: English.
Editor: Caliph Hymenaeus Alpha (Grady Louis McMurtry, 1918-1985); editor and printer Bill Heidrick. .
Succeeded by: The Magical Link.
1/1, May 1977-1983.

This was the newsletter of McMurtry's Califate, reproduced from typed 8 1/2 x 11 sheets and stapled. 10-120 pp., $3.50 a year in North America, $5.00 international. The journal lapsed in 1980 and was then re-begun by McMurtry in 1982. The newsletter prominently reproduced McMurtry's authorization from Aleister Crowley to "take charge of the whole work of the Order in California." The journal contained work by Crowley and others.

Other Sources:University of London, Warburg.
Issues:O. T. O. Newsletter V1 N3 Dec 1977
Claude-Generated Themes:   This is the newsletter of the Ordo Templi Orientis, and it is unmistakably Thelemic: Aleister Crowley, 'The Book of the Law,' the 'Aeonic current of Horus,' the office of the 'Caliph' who heads the modern order, and a self-compiled English-Qabalah 'number dictionary' for decoding Thelema's holy text. Its vocabulary -- initiation, magick, tarot, esoteric -- places it at the center of Crowleyan ceremonial magic. Because the O.T.O. is by definition the order of sex-magick, organized around initiatory degrees, that current and the tarot/gematria and Hermetic-Qabalistic strands earn real secondary standing, even though this particular front-matter number is more organizational and exegetical than ritual-explicit. It belongs with the Thelemic and ceremonial-magic periodicals, not with Theosophy, to which the panel's generic 'occult' score wrongly tilts.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Ceremonial Magic and Thelema