THE CONTINENTAL TIMES

Berlin, Germany

11 October 1915

(page 2)

THE OPEN TRIBUNE.

ALEISTER CROWLEY EXPLAINS.

To the Editor:

I notice in your brief introduction to my article “End of England”—(July 26th) a reference to a “ridiculous proposal” of mine to take down Cologne Cathedral and rebuild it at Rheims. You wrong me!

This was only one of a series of letters which I wrote to the London Press in order to find out if there was anything too idiotic for them to print.

There was not!

I am your obedient servant,

Aleister Crowley.

I am sorry to have misinterpreted Mr. Crowley’s somewhat over-subtle irony. But considering what was written in London at that time, there was really no way of telling the sheep from the goats.

Lit. Ed.