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    • Aleister Crowley-McMurtry Correspondence (1943-1947)
    • Karl Germer-McMurtry Collection (1943-1948)
    • Letters: 1943
      • (01/04/1943) Grady McMurtry to Aleister Crowley
      • (03/02/1943) Aleister Crowley to Grady McMurtry
      • (05/11/1943) Grady McMurtry to Aleister Crowley
      • (06/06/1943) Karl Germer to Grady McMurtry
      • (07/14/1943) Aleister Crowley to Grady McMurtry
      • (07/28/1943) Grady McMurtry to Aleister Crowley
      • (08/11/1943) Karl Germer to Grady McMurtry
      • (08/18/1943) Aleister Crowley to Grady McMurtry
      • (09/02/1943) Grady McMurtry to Aleister Crowley
      • (09/04/1943) Grady McMurtry to Karl Germer
      • (09/24/1943) Aleister Crowley to Grady McMurtry
      • (11/06/1943) Grady McMurtry to Aleister Crowley
      • (11/10/1943) Aleister Crowley to Grady McMurtry
      • (11/19/1943) Aleister Crowley to Grady McMurtry
      • (11/25/1943) Grady McMurtry to Aleister Crowley
      • (11/29/1943) Aleister Crowley to Grady McMurtry
      • (12/01/1943) Aleister Crowley to Grady McMurtry
      • (12/05/1943) Grady McMurtry to Aleister Crowley
      • (12/10/1943) Grady McMurtry to Aleister Crowley
      • (12/15/1943) Grady McMurtry to Aleister Crowley
      • (12/25/1943) Grady McMurtry to Aleister Crowley
      • (12/28/1943) Aleister Crowley to Grady McMurtry
    • Letters: 1944
      • (08/04/1944) Aleister Crowley to Grady McMurtry
      • (08/22/1944) Aleister Crowley to Grady McMurtry
      • (08/24/1944) Aleister Crowley to Grady McMurtry
      • (08/28/1944) Grady McMurtry to Aleister Crowley
      • (09/28/1944) Aleister Crowley to Grady McMurtry
      • (10/21/1944) Grady McMurtry to Aleister Crowley
      • (11/06/1944) Grady McMurtry to Aleister Crowley
      • (11/13/1944) Aleister Crowley to Grady McMurtry
      • (11/21/1944) Aleister Crowley to Grady McMurtry
      • (03/08/1944) Grady McMurtry to Aleister Crowley
      • (03/21/1944) Grady McMurtry to Aleister Crowley
      • (03/30/1944) Aleister Crowley to Grady McMurtry
      • (04/13/1944) Aleister Crowley to Grady McMurtry
      • (04/20/1944) Aleister Crowley to Grady McMurtry
      • (04/28/1944) Grady McMurtry to Aleister Crowley
      • (05/20/1944) Grady McMurtry to Aleister Crowley
      • (05/23/1944) Aleister Crowley to Grady McMurtry
      • (06/25/1944) Grady McMurtry to Aleister Crowley
      • (06/30/1944) Aleister Crowley to Grady McMurtry
      • (07/06/1944) Aleister Crowley to Grady McMurtry
      • (07/14/1944) Aleister Crowley to Grady McMurtry
      • (07/27/1944) Grady McMurtry to Aleister Crowley
    • Letters: 1945
      • (05/15/1945) Grady McMurtry to Aleister Crowley
      • (05/28/1945) Grady McMurtry to Aleister Crowley
      • (07/01/1945) Grady McMurtry to Aleister Crowley
      • (07/09/1945) Aleister Crowley to Grady McMurtry
      • (07/19/1945) Aleister Crowley to Grady McMurtry
      • (07/20/1945) Grady McMurtry to Aleister Crowley
      • (10/01/1945) Aleister Crowley to Grady McMurtry
      • (01/17/1945) Grady McMurtry to Aleister Crowley
      • (02/03/1945) Grady McMurtry to Aleister Crowley
      • (02/03/1945) Grady McMurtry to Karl Germer
      • (02/12/1945) Grady McMurtry to Aleister Crowley
      • (03/01/1945) Karl Germer to Grady McMurtry
      • (03/06/1945) Grady McMurtry to Aleister Crowley
      • (03/16/1945) Grady McMurtry to Aleister Crowley
      • (04/02/1945) Grady McMurtry to Aleister Crowley
      • (04/11/1945) Aleister Crowley to Grady McMurtry
      • (04/26/1945) Grady McMurtry to Aleister Crowley
      • (06/16/1945) Karl Germer to Grady McMurtry
    • Letters: 1946
      • (01/12/1946) Karl Germer to Grady McMurtry
      • (01/26/1946) Grady McMurtry to Karl Germer
      • (02/02/1946) Karl Germer to Grady McMurtry
      • (02/08/1946) Aleister Crowley to Grady McMurtry
      • (02/15/1946) Grady McMurtry to Karl Germer
      • (02/19/1946) Grady McMurtry to Aleister Crowley
      • (03/14/1946) Aleister Crowley to Grady McMurtry
      • (03/14/1946) Karl Germer to Grady McMurtry
      • (03/22/1946) Aleister Crowley to Grady McMurtry
      • (03/27/1946) Karl Germer to Grady McMurtry
      • (03/30/1946) Karl Germer to Grady McMurtry
      • (04/06/1946) Karl Germer to Grady McMurtry
      • (04/10/1946) Aleister Crowley to Grady McMurtry
      • (04/11/1946) Aleister Crowley to Grady McMurtry
      • (04/14/1946) Aleister Crowley to Grady McMurtry
      • (04/26/1946) Grady McMurtry to Karl Germer
      • (05/12/1946) Grady McMurtry to Aleister Crowley
      • (05/15/1946) Grady McMurtry to Karl Germer
      • (05/24/1946) Karl Germer to Grady McMurtry
      • (06/04/1946) Grady McMurtry to Karl Germer
      • (06/11/1946) Karl Germer to Grady McMurtry
      • (06/14/1946) Aleister Crowley to Grady McMurtry
      • (06/19/1946) Grady McMurtry to Karl Germer
      • (06/25/1946) Grady McMurtry to Karl Germer
      • (06/27/1946) Karl Germer to Grady McMurtry
      • (07/13/1946) Karl Germer to Grady McMurtry
      • (11/26/1946) Aleister Crowley to Grady McMurtry
    • Letters: 1947
      • (04/07/1947) Aleister Crowley to Grady McMurtry
      • (06/17/1947) Aleister Crowley to Grady McMurtry
    • Letters: 1948
    • Letters: 1949
    • Letters: 1950
    • Letters: 1951
    • Letters: 1952
    • Letters: 1953
    • Letters: 1954
    • Letters: 1955
    • Letters: 1956
    • Letters: 1957
    • Letters: 1958
    • Letters: 1959
    • Letters: 1970’s
      • (undated) Jimmy Page to Grady McMurtry
      • (01/09/1972) Grady McMurtry to Israel Regardie
      • (02/21/1975) Grady McMurtry to Jimmy Page
      • (09/16/1975) Grady McMurtry to Jimmy Page
      • (07/19/1977) Grady McMurtry to Jimmy Page
  • Poetry
    • Poetry: 1940’s
      • Poetry: 1940
        • (11/20/1940) The Black Messiah
      • Poetry: 1941
        • (02/11/1941) Notes On A City (damn near any city)
        • (04/28/1941) The Voyage Home
        • (07/20/1941) An Apish God
        • (09/13/1941) Changeling
        • (09/27/1941) The Metrognome
        • (09/28/1941) Nadir
        • (10/02/1941) Saturn
        • (11/07/1941) Adeptus
        • (11/12/1941) The Benediction of the Devil
        • (11/28/1941) Witch
        • (12/04/1941) Ego
        • (12/06/1941) Requiem
        • (12/07/1941) Now I Know
        • (12/20/1941) Perturbations
      • Poetry: 1942
        • (1942) The Combat Engineers
        • (02/02/1942) Elusian
        • (02/08/1942) Zeus
        • (02/12/1942) The Mass
        • (02/15/1942) Adonis
        • (02/18/1942) Urnie
        • (02/19/1942) Spring Fever
        • (03/02/1942) Atavism
        • (03/02/1942) Toast of the Schowlar
        • (04/09/1942) Weighting at the Gate
        • (05/07/1942) The Elfinwise
        • (05/18/1942) Godhead
        • (06/05/1942) Cyclops
        • (07/03/1942) Spirit of Earth
        • (09/17/1942) Dance of the Gargoyle
        • (12/02/1942) Sterility
        • (12/20/1942) The Long Watch
        • (late 1942) War and I
      • Poetry: 1943
        • (03/03/1943) Witchwine
        • (05/23/1943) Creed of the Commando
        • (06/06/1943) Some One Behind You?
        • (07/07/1943) I, Rebel
        • (07/31/1943) The Gnome
        • (08/06/1943) Voyager
        • (09/17/1943) The Intruder
        • (12/04/1943) Oblivion
        • (12/13/1943) Pangenetor!
      • Poetry: 1944
        • (02/01/1944) The Seeker
        • (04/06/1944) Convoy Rolling
        • (09/17/1944) The Cynic
        • (09/30/1944) In September
        • (10/14/1944) Normandie in June
      • Poetry: 1945
        • (01/10/1945) Bitterness
        • (03/03/1945) To My Fallen Comrades
        • (03/11/1945) Eld
        • (06/11/1945) Breakthrough
      • Poetry: 1946
        • (01/??/1946) Space Tides: A Prophecy
        • (02/17/1946) End Run
      • Poetry: 1947
        • (02/10/1947) 3 Pears Dormant
      • Poetry: 1949
        • (05/25/1949) Of Emerald Earth
    • Poetry: 1950’s
      • (11/05/1951) Outward Bound!
      • (03/11/1952) Deus Ex Machina
      • (1952-1953) Memo Pencilled On a Helmet Skull
      • (11/20/1959) The Great White Hunter or: Bill Green Redivivus
      • (11/27/1959) Greetings for a Cool Yule
    • Poetry: 1960’s
      • Poetry: 1961
        • (03/??/1961) The Star of the Magi
        • (03/??/1961) The Redeemer that is in the Waters
        • (03/??/1961) The Sign of the Sphinx
        • (04/??/1961) The Magus
        • (05/18/1961) The Unicorn
        • (06/24/1961) The Black Osiris
        • (06/??/1961) The Child
        • (06/??/1961) The Virgin
        • (07/??/1961) The Dweller on the Threshold
        • (08/21/1961) Alien Star
        • (08/22/1961) Remembered Eden
        • (08/24/1961) The Lamp of the Spirit
        • (08/25/1961) The Heavens of Urania
        • (08/27/1961) Noah’s Arc
        • (08/31/1961) Ezekial’s Bestiary
        • (10/20/1961) Jericho
        • (11/01/1961) October Bridge
      • Poetry: 1962
        • (01/12/1962) Her Lovely Hair
        • (01/14/1962) Angel Far
        • (04/04/1962) Dea
        • (04/04/1962) Thy Serpent Priest
        • (04/11/1962) Definition: Goddess
        • (04/11/1962) Noah
        • (04/13/1962) Abra-Magician
        • (04/20/1962) The Sea Fight with the Ghouls
        • (05/04/1962) Renewal
        • (05/23/1962) The Other End of Oblivion
        • (05/31/1962) A Fall of Angels
        • (06/28/1962) The Mystical Marriage of the Soldier and the Queen
      • Poetry: 1963-1969
        • (1964-1966) Haikus
    • Poetry: 1970’s
      • (02/19/1972) Blind Horus
      • (03/03/1972) The Throne of Hell
    • Poetry: Undated
      • A Fragment of Life
      • A Worm In Earnest
      • AMUCK!
      • As Above
      • Ballet Sol
      • Entity
      • Entropy
      • Identification
      • Outbound
      • Pageant
      • Regret
      • Rust
      • The Ballad of the Spaceman’s Woe
      • The Midnight Rain
      • The Nike’s On the Hill
      • The Parish Parson
      • The Rebel Soul
      • The Shadow of the Vale
      • This I Remember
      • Two Poems from Basic Training
      • Unhallowed Eve
      • Untitled
      • Wahlpurgisnacht
  • Essays
    • Essays: 1940’s
      • (late 1943) The Dynamics of Equilibrium
      • (mid 1940’s) Grady McMurtry during WWII
      • (1946) Clear Crowley’s Name Campaign
    • Essays: 1950’s
      • (1954) Preface & Selected Passages from “The Millennial Glow: Myth and Magic in the Marxist Ethic”
    • Essays: 1960’s
      • (04/1966) The Millennial Utopians: Nostalgia for Eden and the Forest Primeval
    • Essays: 1970’s
      • (07/1977) Tarot and the Psychic Body
      • (07/1977) The Real Presence of the Caliph
      • (08/1977) Tales from the Caliph: Continuity in the Order
      • (06/1978) Karl’s Karma
    • Essays: 1980’s
      • (early 1980’s) On Crowley the Critic
      • (08/1981) Caliph’s Log: Star Date … You Name It
      • (09/1981) Drop Trooper: Memoirs of the Caliph
      • (12/1981-01/1982) The Four Rivers of Paradise
      • (02/1982) Program, Pre-Program, Reprogram
      • (04/1982) On Aleister Crowley Revisionism
      • (05/1982) On Disturbing the Tranquility of the Gods
      • (06-07/1982) On Technical Information
      • (08/1982) On Curriculum
      • (09/1982) On the Physics of Metaphysics
    • Essays: Undated
      • On the Templar Mystique or, The Rambling Reminiscences of a Templar
  • Documents
    • A Note on Moonchild
    • “Crowley, Germer and McMurtry” by Hymenaeus Beta
    • (1940-1945) Diaries
    • (08/06/1948) Minutes of Agape Lodge
    • (1951) Military Statement of Personal History
    • (10/20/1954) Autobiography to Delta Phi Epsilon
    • (1957) Curriculum Vitae: Grady L. McMurtry
    • (1977) Charter of Thelema Lodge
    • (1981) Copy of Crowley’s La Gauloise signed by Hymenaeus Alpha
    • (1981) Interview with Grady McMurtry
  • Photos
    • Photos: Pre-1940
      • (1920’s) Young Grady in Big Cabin, Oklahoma
    • Photos: 1940’s
      • (early 1940s) Grady McMurtry in Yogic Pose
      • (05/01/1941) War Department Identification card
      • (09/25/1942) War Department Identification card
    • Photos: 1950’s
      • (1950s) Grady McMurtry during the Korean War
      • (late 1950’s) Grady McMurtry after the War
    • Photos: 1960’s
      • (12/1969) Grady McMurtry in late 1969
    • Photos: 1970’s
      • (1970) Grady McMurtry, Israel Regardie, and Phyllis Seckler
      • (1970s) Miscellaneous Photos of Grady in the 70’s
      • (1975) Grady McMurtry with Israel Regardie, William Heidrick, and others
      • (late 1970’s) Grady McMurtry performing a Pentagram ritual at Heidricks’s house in San Anselmo
      • (08/1979) Grady McMurtry at the Renaissance Fair
      • (1979) Grady in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco
    • Photos: 1980’s
      • (1980) Grady McMurtry at Brocken Mountain Lodge in Connecticut
      • (1982) Grady McMurtry with Robert Anton Wilson in Berkeley
      • (1983) Grady in Turban and Robe
      • (1983) Grady with his pipe
      • (1983/10/08) Grady McMurtry’s visit to SFR Yugoslavia
  • Audio/Video

(04/11/1962) Definition: Goddess

Definition: Goddess

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Cavity

4/11/62

Note: Originally published in Thelema Lodge Calendar, September 1993.

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