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Murry Hope (17 September 1929 – 25 October 2012)Richard Ellis, ''Imagining Atlantis'', 1998. Alfred A. Knoft – original from University of Michigan; pp. 64–70, 269. . was an English writer and occultist. ConsideredNancy B. Watson, ''Practical Solitary Magic'', 1996. Weiser Books; pp. 20, 54, 98, 107, 223. . a
Wicca Wicca () is a modern Pagan religion. Scholars of religion categorise it as both a new religious movement and as part of the occultist stream of Western esotericism. It was developed in England during the first half of the 20th century and w ...
n priestessStephen S. Mehler, ''The Land of Osiris'', 2002; pp. 8, 11, 29, 116, 178–182, 216, 223, 229. . and a
New Age New Age is a range of spiritual or religious practices and beliefs which rapidly grew in Western society during the early 1970s. Its highly eclectic and unsystematic structure makes a precise definition difficult. Although many scholars consi ...
author,Wouter J. Hanegraaff, ''New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought (Studies in the History of Religions)'', 1996. Brill Academic Publishers; pp. 89–93, 308. .Judith Wise-Rhoads
''New Moon Rising a magickal Pagan Journal''
 she wrote sundry books on the topics of psychology, human consciousness, the future of planet Earth, witchcraft, the
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star system, et al.Karen Tate, ''Sacred Places of Goddess: 108 Destinations'', 2006. CCC Publishing; p. 336. .


Early life

Hope's mother left her after she was born and her father died of throat cancer at a very early age. She was raised by her nurse, Rhoda Adams. A bomb killed her nanny in 1945, leaving her in the care of Adams’s husband and niece who were in the country at the time. At 19 Hope was a member of the
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. In 1951 she was working for the Officer's Association of the British Legion.


Opera career

Hope studied voice, taking lessons with a teacher from the
Paris Conservatoire The Conservatoire de Paris (), also known as the Paris Conservatory, is a college of music and dance founded in 1795. Officially known as the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP), it is situated in the avenue ...
and in London had a small part in '' West End production'' for two years. She received an opera scholarship at the
Royal College of Music The Royal College of Music is a conservatoire established by royal charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, UK. It offers training from the undergraduate to the doctoral level in all aspects of Western Music including performanc ...
where she stayed for three years, then joined the
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. Her premiere was the mystical opera ''
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''.


Occult and writing

In 1957 she co-founded the ''Atlanteans Society'' with Tony Neate, a healing and spiritual group at
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, England, that aimed to treat issues such as
exorcism Exorcism () is the religious or spiritual practice of evicting demons, jinns, or other malevolent spiritual entities from a person, or an area, that is believed to be possessed. Depending on the spiritual beliefs of the exorcist, this may be ...
and mental disorders. By that time Hope wrote a seasonal column for ''Prediction magazine,'' a periodical oriented towards mystical subjects, where she used to sign the pseudonym ''Athene Williams.'' In 1975 Hope left the association claiming incompatibility between the predominant Christian layout settled amidst ''Atlanteans'' and her Pagan beliefs. In 1977 Hope had her alleged psychic abilities tested by a doctor from
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under the supervision of the broadcaster
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and obtained good results. Hope claimed to remember her past lives including not being human by belonging to the devic kingdom. In her esoteric essays Hope created the ''
Cartouche In Egyptian hieroglyphs, a cartouche is an oval with a line at one end tangent to it, indicating that the text enclosed is a royal name. The first examples of the cartouche are associated with pharaohs at the end of the Third Dynasty, but the f ...
'', a method of divination which used cards that she claimed heightened levels of awareness. based on symbols of energies on the monuments and walls of various
Egyptian temple Egyptian temples were built for the official worship of the ancient Egyptian deities, gods and in commemoration of the pharaohs in ancient Egypt and regions under Egyptian control. Temples were seen as houses for the gods or kings to whom they w ...
s. She contracted Martin Jones in 1983 to develop artwork for the deck with symbols. The same year Hope and Jed Collard founded Ostaris Publications which produced 3,000 decks of these cards with accompanying guide book. The decks sold well, drawing a business transaction between Jed Collard and the American book publisher
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. Following this success, oversized cards and a larger guidance book were printed by St. Martins. Her final contribution was the book ''The Way of Cartouche'', published in 1985. In 1988 Hope founded the Institute of Transpersonal Sensitivity in America, intending to establish a relation between
transpersonal The transpersonal is a term used by different schools of philosophy and psychology in order to describe experiences and worldviews that extend beyond the personal level of the psyche, and beyond mundane worldly events. Definition and context The ...
experience and the approved schools of psychology.


Personal life

Hope married four times; she had no children.


Death

Murry Hope died 25 October 2012 in
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, West Sussex, aged 83. Her remains were cremated at the
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Crematorium on 12 November 2012.


Themes

Hope's frequent themes, including "the roots of ancient Egyptian civilization", are explored through books like ''Ancient Egypt: The Sirius Connection'' of 1991, ''The Paschats and the Crystal People'' of 1992 and others. There she calls attention to the knowledge possessed by North African tribes, namely the Dogons, and conducts the reader on a trip across an alleged alien legacy descended from the "tri-star system of Sirius". She claims that beryl stone represents the Sirius star system and emerald the "Sirius C star", which create a cosmic link between initiates from
Egyptian Egyptian describes something of, from, or related to Egypt. Egyptian or Egyptians may refer to: Nations and ethnic groups * Egyptians, a national group in North Africa ** Egyptian culture, a complex and stable culture with thousands of years of ...
and stellar energies. Later on she examines the nature of leonine entities from Sirius called ''Paschats'' which, conjectures Hope, through the lion goddess
Bastet Bastet or Bast ( egy, bꜣstjt, cop, Ⲟⲩⲃⲁⲥⲧⲉ, Oubaste , Phoenician: 𐤀𐤁𐤎𐤕, romanized: ’bst, or 𐤁𐤎𐤕, romanized: bst) was a goddess of ancient Egyptian religion, worshipped as early as the Second Dynasty (2 ...
were worshiped in Egypt.Murry Hope, ''The Sirius Connection''. Shaftesbury, England 1996. . Particularly in ''The Gaia Dialogues'' (1995), Hope defends the natural world asserting that the Earth (Gaia) is a conscious being, a living entity who is shifting its magnetic poles as part of a plan to defend itself from desolation caused by its human children.


Books

* ''Practical Egyptian Magic'', Aquarian Press, 1984, ; republished as ''The Ancient Wisdom of Egypt'', Thorsons Publishers, 1999, . * ''The Way of Cartouche: An Oracle of Ancient Egyptian Magic'',
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, 1985. . * ''Practical Techniques of Psychic Self-Defense'', St. Martin's Press, 1986, . * ''Practical Greek Magic: A Complete Manual of a Unique Magical System Based on the Classical Legends of Ancient Greece'', Aquarian Press, 1987, . * ''Practical Celtic Magic: A Working Guide to the Magical Heritage of the Celtic Races'', Aquarian Press, 1988, . * ''The Lion People: Intercosmic Messages from the Future'', 1989; republished by Thoth Publications, 2006. . * ''Essential Woman: Her Mystery, Her Power'', Thoth Publications, 1990, . * ''The Nine Lives of Tyo'', Thoth Publications, 1990, . * ''The Psychology of Healing'', Element Books, 1990, ; rev. ed., Vega Books, 2002, . * ''Time: The Ultimate Energy'', Element Books, 1991, ; rev. ed., Vega Books, 2002, . * ''Ancient Egypt: The Sirius Connection'', Element Books, 1991. ; republished as ''The Sirius Connection: Unlocking the Secrets of Ancient Egypt'', Element Books, 1996, (hardcover), (paperback). * ''Atlantis: Myth or Reality?'', Penguin, 1991, . * ''The Elements of the Greek Tradition'', Element Books, 1991, . * ''Olympus: An Experience of Self-Discovery'', Aquarian Press, 1991, . * ''The Psychology of Ritual'', Element Books, 1991, . * ''Practical Atlantean Magic: A Study of the Science, Mysticism and Theurgy of Ancient Atlantis'', Aquarian Press, 1992, ; republished as ''The Ancient Wisdom of Atlantis'', Thorsons Publishers, 1999, . * ''The Paschats and the Crystal People'', Thoth Publications, 1992, . * ''The Gaia Dialogues'', Thoth Publications, 1995, . * ''Cosmic Connections'', Thoth Publications, 1996, . * ''The Changeling: The Autobiography of Murry Hope'', The College of Psychic Studies, 1999, . * ''The Ancient Wisdom of the Celts'', Thorsons Publishers, 1999, . * ''The World of Psychism: An Authoritative Study of Mysticism and Magic'', Thoth Publications, 2001, .


See also

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Ceremonial magic Ceremonial magic (ritual magic, high magic or learned magic) encompasses a wide variety of rituals of magic. The works included are characterized by ceremony and numerous requisite accessories to aid the practitioner. It can be seen as an ex ...
* Dogon people *'' Drawing Down the Moon'' * Earth Mother *
Gaia philosophy Gaia philosophy (named after Gaia, Greek goddess of the Earth) is a broadly inclusive term for related concepts that living organisms on a planet will affect the nature of their environment in order to make the environment more suitable for li ...
* Judy Harrow *
List of occultists This list comprises and encompasses people, both contemporary and historical, who are or were professionally or otherwise notably involved in occult practices. People who were or are merely believers of occult practices should not be included unl ...
*
List of occult writers __NOTOC__ This is a list of notable occult The occult, in the broadest sense, is a category of esoteric supernatural beliefs and practices which generally fall outside the scope of religion and science, encompassing phenomena involving otherwo ...
*
Maggie Shayne Maggie Shayne (born Margaret Lewis) is an American author of more than 70 novels. Shayne has won numerous awards, including the Romance Writers of America RITA Award, multiple Reviewers' Choice and Career Achievement Awards, The Readers' Choice A ...
* Neopaganism *
Nommo The Nommo or Nummo are primordial ancestral spirits in Dogon religion and cosmogony (sometimes referred to as demi deities) venerated by the Dogon people of Mali. The word Nommos is derived from a Dogon word meaning "to make one drink." Nommos ...
*''
The Sirius Mystery ''The Sirius Mystery'' is a book written by Robert K. G. Temple (born Robert Kyle Grenville Temple in 1945) supporting the pseudoscientific ancient astronauts hypothesis that intelligent extraterrestrial beings visited the Earth and made cont ...
'' *
Zecharia Sitchin Zecharia Sitchin (July 11, 1920 – October 9, 2010) was an author of a number of books proposing an explanation for human origins involving ancient astronauts. Sitchin attributed the creation of the ancient Sumerian culture to the ''Anunnaki'', ...


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