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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to J.F.C. Fuller
Biskra [Algeria]
28-12-10.
Dear Fuller,
So far as I can make out your letter, your idea is that any threat of legal proceedings will cow me. Not a bit. I merely object to taking the offensive. An English judge it was who said "Suffer any wrong that may be done you rather than seek redress at law" and I have wittily observed "In England a man is never thought guilty until he has been proven innocent."
Anyhow, the Qabalah's ready long since and I can congratulate you on having escaped the drudgery of it. It took me two whole days to do, and needs a third to put in the quotations and revise. Still, one saves that in adjective-slaying; so all's for the best.
I am sorry to have quoted Tallyrand; it was Adam I meant. Apart from that, who is my double freed friend? You might 'give me the office'! If your Khabar [news] is first-hand. Eckenstein [Oscar Eckenstein] has written me about the L-G [Looking Glass newspaper] and his opinion is very valuable to me. I shall look into the whole question de nous abrono on my return.
I am still very rotten mentally; physically just reached 'condition.' Did about 26 miles yesterday over hard ground without excessive fatigue. By hard ground I mean some miles of deep sands and about two of bog. We had a terrific snow-blizzard for about 3 days a fortnight back, a record for this country. The desert stood about 2 inches in water everywhere! and we had no shelter.
Plans uncertain for a day or two. I'll be very glad to see you again: I hope you know how glad.
Yours ever as ever
Aleister Crowley
Captain J.F.C. Fuller 89 Overstrand Mansions Battersea Park London S.W.
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