(Yod 10) This painting is in oil on 18"x24" canvas. It was painted in February of 1982. It represents "The Hermit" card of J. Edward's major Tarot trumps. This card and The Tower were two of Grady McMurtry's favorite paintings. He kept photographs of both on his private altar. Grady liked the way it symbolically portrays a man reclining with the Sun as his head, legs spread wide, with an open hand (Yod) outstretched reaching for the Mountain whereon The Hermit sits. Aleister Crowley calls the hand the "instrument par excellence." In the original vision, which unfolded this card, the man was lying out on the ground naked and staring at the clear sky of daytime which slowly turned blood red. This blood pumped through his body, animating his very being. As I consciously became aware of this pumping of blood I slowly began to focus my thoughts upon the Sacred Mountain. I seemed to project my consciousness unto its summit and somehow I knew the Word manifesting was nothing less than I (yod), the father.

(Phe 80) This painting is in oil on 18"x24" canvas. It was painted in February of 1982. It represents "The Tower" card of J. Edward's major Tarot trumps. Old Aeonic cards portray the Word manifesting into Speech as 'Babel' or the destruction of the Tower as if emitting its Word in unwanted orgasm. The card should correctly show the Word moving within into Silence through Babal-ON. In the original vision which inspired this card there were two figures on either side of my Tower. They slowly drifted toward the Tower until it seemed like they would collide. In the vision toward my left I saw a naked man with a brown snake wrapped around his chest. Behind him was a huge image of the symbol of Mercury which was clearly orange. To my right I beheld a naked female with a Dove circling gently above and behind her. Behind her was a huge green image of the symbol of Venus. At first these were very perplexing, then, in a flash, I knew he was HOD and she NETZACH -- the two spheres which The Tower card connects. Then I seemed to hear in the distance, "There is the dove, and there is the serpent. Choose ye well!" (AL I:57) The serpent-Lion (bud-Will) of the left-hand pillar moves currents in a downward spiral toward Malkuth while the Dove-Eagle of the right-hand pillar moves currents upward. If the bud-Will is not allowed to earth itself out, then it travels through the path of Phe to fulfill the Formula of ON by moving upward through the path of Nun into the Star. All this is discussed at length in Aleister Crowley's Liber Aleph.

(Ayin 70) This painting is in oil on 18"x24" canvas. It was painted in March of 1980. It represents "The Devil" card of J. Edward's major Tarot trumps. This card, like many, portrays what occurs within an individual. The circle, half buried in the ground, represents the letter 'O' or Ayin. It is symbolic of an opening, often equated with a vagina but more properly the phallus. It portrays the masculine nature of 'O' in the Formula of ON. It is the seed or bud-Will. The Devil is shown controlling the way up the mountain. He is Lord of Illusion or he who hinders and holds an individual back from achieving their goal. If one becomes lost in the fog of the 'moment' one droops down their head and becomes one with the Earth through the path of Shin. In other words, the fog is that which keeps the weary traveler from obtaining the peak. Go through it. Conquer it through Phe and one finds the infinity of space and discovers what animates the very Stars. As above, so below. All this is discussed at length in Aleister Crowley's Liber Aleph.

This painting is in oil on 24"x30" canvas. It was painted in February of 1983. It is titled "Demon Lust" or the Witches Sabbath. It is the central painting of a series of nine, all of different sizes, which formed a huge mural at Brocken Mountain Lodge, OTO in Connecticut. The mural is 24 inches in height by 27 feet in length. During the Police raid against the OTO in Berkeley California in 1989 this mural was graphically filmed. Later, during police depositions, when the film was being shown, J. Edward was asked, "How come, amongst all those demons, you're the only white guy in the entire mural having sex with white women?" J. Edward sat back in his chair, cracked a big smile and replied, "Because it's my painting."

This painting is in oil on 22"x28" canvas. It was painted in September of 1986 and is titled, "The Green Lady." This was an astral vision working within Quoph near Netzach.

This painting is in oil on 22"x28" canvas. It was painted in February of 1989. It is titled, "The Name of the Beast." Records of this working have not survived.

(Lamed 30) This painting is in oil on 18"x24" canvas. It was painted in December of 1984. It represents the "Justice" card of J. Edward's major Tarot trumps. See 'JUSTICE & THE EMPEROR' for a brief description of this card.