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Correspondence from Karl Germer to Grady McMurtry
[EXTRACT]
[16 April 1952]
"The O.T.O. has for its object to lift humanity up, and is honest about it. It refuses to play the racket game as all other Churches do. We refuse to give Opium to the people to dull their minds and enslave their souls. Every paragraph of the O.T.O. Constitution can be said to be uncompromising concerning the genuine goal. The rituals used, as far as I know, are genuine and will not allow an unworthy man to pay his way into it because he happens to be rich, and is used to buy what he wants, as the Catholic Church does by having the strictest possible rule and dogma against divorce, and yet, if someone is rich enough, gives it to the parties concerned! I cannot conceive of a case where A. C. broke his spiritual integrity."
"Do not believe for a moment that I close my eyes to the inevitable war which will, possibly soon, be thrust upon us, and upon us as the defenders of the Thelema and The Book of the Law. It will be fought against us with the very dirtiest and sinister means. Can I change this? Should I pussyfoot to avoid it? Should I run away from it?"
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