User talk:Thelema Lodge

In October 1977 McMurtry founded Thelema Lodge in Berkeley to serve as the headquarters of his resuscitated O.T.O. By 1985 it had more than seven hundred members in several different countries. In that year McMurtry, in failing health, successfully sued Motta in United States district court over the possession of the O.T.O. trademarks and copyrights. He died in a San Francisco Bay Area convalescent hospital on the day that the U.S. court clerk released the text of the decision that set the seal on McMurtry's efforts to reestablish the O.T.O. Since then McMurtry's "Caliphate" O.T.O. has grown to some four thousand members in more than twenty-five countries.