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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to George Montagu Bennet (7th Earl of Tankerville)
60, Jermyn Street, S.W. tel: 2243 Gerrard.
Monday 1.30 A.M. [4 April 1907]
Dear Lord Tankerville,
As I promised, I spent this night on your affair.
It seems to me that the object of the malice and cruelty which inspire attack is Lady Tankerville rather than yourself. I think that through her the original schemes to ruin you were frustrated. Which has annoyed them. The immediate danger appears to be to the life of your son, and its nature either from steel, water, from horse-drawn vehicles, or from the overbalancing or upsetting of something.
It is not advisable to attempt to shun these particular risks; if anything, you should incur them a little more freely than usual; at the same time using with special care the protective formulae.
You are (I am sure) right about the source of attack; but I get mere material envy—power, wealth and so on—as the motive all—sufficient. I do not see a man in the background: it is possible that there was one some time ago, but he is not involved at present.
I am yours faithfully,
Aleister Crowley.
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