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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to J.F.C. Fuller
[17 December 1908]
My dear Fuller,
For God's sake let me have the
Lion hunt parallel to 21 W.R. [Warwick Road]
on [Saturday]
I have been through 963 syllable by syllable of the 12 Zodiac chapters, making every phrase equimetric. Some passages I have had to alter a good deal. I have cut out commonplace images and replaced them by vivid ones where I could, also replacing abstracts by concretes wherever possible. I shall finish the [illegible] adorations this a.m.
Of course all this is subject to your approval. I dare say I have wasted some of your point; but this is my point, that we want only points that nobody can miss.
Still, I doubt not that you will find fresh courage to make yet further facets to your great diamond. There are only two ways to it: inspiration, and work so hard and perfect that its traces are invisible. Having left the former path, we must (I think) strive for the latter.
The total of syllables is 17,576. This excludes titles etc etc. I rather think 1352 means something. Look it up.
If you would care to, I would lend you my Roseworth to copy out all the names in his Qabalistic Dictionary. We would divide the labour, I to add up and pencil on the margin the numeration of all the names, or at least the ones I thought necessary. I meant to do it long ago, but was too slack. These jobs don't take long if you go at them: it was but some eight hours' work to split up 963 into phrases, and make the alterations (i.e. for the 13 chapters) though some of the phrases had to be counted over and over again before they came right.
I hope you will not think I am too interfering with your chef d'oeuvre.
Yours ever
Aleister Crowley
By the way, we must not let confusion arise, between the History Lection and the 'Temple.'
Reply to Convict 963 The Padded Room Sussex County [illegible] Asylum
Captain J.F.C.Fuller 89 Overstrand Mansions Battersea London S.W.
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morning.