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Correspondence from Grady McMurtry to Karl Germer
1661 Sacramento St, Apt. 3 San Francisco, 9, California
4 June 1946
Dear Karl,
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Here is a little something that you may not have been expecting. It is the return on one of the Books of Thoth that I sold through a book dealer. I agreed to let him have $15 if he could sell it for $50 which he did. You may remember that I had planned on setting up a sort of campaign fund with these proceeds. Such a project may be feasible later but certainly isn’t now so you can have this for Aleister’s transfer or whatever you need.
Here are also a couple of snaps of Foxie [Marjorie Fox]. As you can see she is a blond. She looks Germanic but is actually English, her maiden name having been Fox, hence the Foxie. We are unusually a bit more original in our nicknames but, as she has had that one from childhood we have never bothered to change it. The picture of her with the boy and dog was taken when she was visiting some friends in the country from school days. Please return them by next mail as I carry them in my billfold. Carried them over most of Europe, in fact.
Culling [Louis Culling] was the “Louis” or “Louie” I mentioned in my report.
Well, Karl, I certainly must admit that I stuck my neck way out for Jack [Jack Parsons] in that report and it looks like he has chopped it off for me. I still think I was right in saying that Jack needed a competent instructor, but I should never have used the word “integrity” to describe his character. I thought that I stood with him as a friend and comrade-in-arms, but now I am not so sure. Certainly he acted sincere towards the Order when I was there, but the moment I left he dropped all of the plans we had made. If he can be charmed by anyone with a smooth tongue, first Smith [Wilfred Talbot Smith] and now Hubbard [L. Ron Hubbard], then certainly he is poor clay. Apparently he can be swayed by any one who is with him, therefore I doubt that I could have anything more than a temporary effect on him by letters. I have even thought that it might be useful for Aleister to send him a program such as he sent Smith, but after due consideration I doubt that the time has yet come for such drastic measures. Since it would be quite easy for someone on the spot to talk him out of it and then he would be free of the authority of Grand Lodge—or at least free of obligation to it. Perhaps you can know more about this after you see him this summer. Thanks for the correspondence on the Allied Enterprises affair. Also Roy [Roy Leffingwell].
Love is the law, love under will.
As ever,
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