Booth, M. (2000). A magick life: The biography of Aleister Crowley. (pp. 476-479). London: Hodder & Stoughton. In the austere postwar years, Crowley had little money. His main source of income was the Agapé Lodge of the OTO in Pasadena, California. Germer, living in New York, also sent him a percentage of OTO initiation fees. [...] The Agapé Lodge was founded in 1915 by Wilfred T. Smith, an initiate of Charles Stansfeld Jones' Vancouver branch, who broke away from Jones. With Crowley's … [Read more...] about Book: A Magick Life: the biography of Aleister Crowley (2000)
Grady McMurtry
Book: In The Name Of The Beast: The Devil (2005)
A history of The Babalon Working,by J. Edward Cornelius. Posted with permission. Chapter Nine THE DEVIL The Angel stood on Gilead His Wings a coursing flame Two eyes of piercing fire he had With folded arms he came The Angel stood on Gilead Pure number was his name. Lt. McMurtry's stay in New York was very short. He knew right from the start that it was only going to be a brief stop over. Like many Americans, his main ambition was to go home now that the war was over. … [Read more...] about Book: In The Name Of The Beast: The Devil (2005)