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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Grady McMurtry
[2 November 1944]
Frater Saturnus [Karl Germer] is of course the natural Caliph; but there are many details concerning the actual policy or working which would hit his blind spots. In any case, he can only be a stopgap, because of his age; I have to look for his successor. It has been hell; so many have come up with amazing promise, only to go on the rocks. . . . I do not think of you as lying on a grassy hillside with a lot of dear sweet woolly lambs, capering to your flute! On the contrary. Your actual life, or "blooding," is the sort of initiation which I regard as the first essential for a Caliph. For—say 20 years hence—the Outer Head of the Order must, among other things, have had the experience of war as it is in actual fact today. 1965 e.v. should be a critical period in the development of the Child Horus!
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