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To: alt.magick From: heidrick@well.sf.ca.us (Bill Heidrick) Subject: Marcello Motta Date: 28 Nov 1994 10:25:39 GMT ...I'm an O.T.O. Grand Lodge officer and the only unsuccessful plaintiff in the McMurtry, O.T.O. et al v. S.O.T.O., Motta et al suit ... Bear that in mind, SVP. Here's a short, bunched up glance. Motta was an A.'.A.'. student of Karl Germer. Based on Motta's correspondence with Germer (which I have in photocopy), Motta adamantly refused to join O.T.O. He didn't like it. Possibly his lady's becoming pregnant on the occasion of an extended visit to meet O.T.O. members had something to do with that. Maybe it was Germer's shared opinions. Maybe he just didn't like it. Later Motta funds and publishes the first edition of _Liber Aleph_ under Germers' control and direction. Time passes. Germer dies. Motta recognizes Grant as O.H.O. of O.T.O. Time passes. Motta learns that Grant was kicked out of O.T.O. by Germer in 1955 e.v. Motta withdraws his recognition of Grant as O.H.O. of O.T.O. Motta writes to Germer's widow and learns that Crowley left his copyrights to O.T.O. Motta writes again to Germer's widow, asking if Germer said anything about Motta's future role in O.T.O. Germer's widow writes back, including "Follower" in her letter, among other words capitalized in the German manner. Motta declares himself the Head of O.T.O. (after the passage of a little more time and an obscure set of demands on Grady McMurtry and others). Time passes. Several pseudo "Equinoxes" are published by Motta, some interesting stuff and some diatribes against folks included. Time passes. Motta writes to his representative in England, suggesting that Symonds be removed. Motta's representative in England is caught setting fire to a facility belonging to a British publisher of Crowley books. Time passes. Motta sues Weiser in the USA for publishing Crowley's works without payment of royalty to Motta's S.O.T.O.. O.T.O. helps Weiser with testimony and evidence. O.T.O. also serves Motta with the papers for the McMurtry v. S.O.T.O. suit. Motta loses his suit in Maine. Time passes. Motta is in court in San Francisco in the O.T.O. suit, saying among other things: Motta first decided to claim control of O.T.O. when he learned about the copyright ownership. Motta tried lie in the Maine suit, but in the San Francisco suit he will only lie on matters regarding O.T.O., copyrights and other things like that. Motta admitted that he never had a charter from Germer in regard to O.T.O. Motta stated under oath that he is the only remaining member of S.O.T.O. Time passes. Motta looses to O.T.O. and Grady McMurtry dies. Motta appeals. Motta looses appeal. Motta appeals to the US Supreme Court. Motta dies. Motta's case is turned down by the Supreme Court. On the plus side, a significant number of high ranking officers in O.T.O. once worked with Motta, receiving entrance into A.'.A.'. under him. Motta's demeanor was difficult, but as far as A.'.A.'. goes, he ran a good one up to the point that it became confused with O.T.O./S.O.T.O. --- demeanor and expulsions to the side. Frankly, Thelema was not entirely ill served by Motta. He did some things very well indeed. It's a tragedy that his anger and drive for supremacy got the better of him. I choose to remember him for the one private remark he addressed to me in court: "Never apologize!" I don't necessarily agree with that 100%, but it does show a certain strength in difficult times. Oh yes, I mentioned that I lost my part of the suit. Motta had called me "A dupe of McMurtry". Maybe the judge agreed with him. Doesn't bother me one way or the other. Motta made up for it later by calling me a "Gray Eminence". Lots of stories could be added on here, but I won't do that unless asked about things. If the Occult posts to alt.freemasonry are boring to many of the folks there, you haven't seen boring until you get down to the details of this sort of thing. 93 93/93 Bill Heidrick, a willing dupe.
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