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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to J.F.C. Fuller
50 rue Vavin Paris
[Postmarked 3 May 1911]
Dear Fuller,
If my friendship ever cooled it was completely revived by your conduct in the box.
But your judgment seems to me all wrong. How could you convict of criminal libel with Schiller there and his innuendoes and perjurers ready? I admit all you say about Simmons, but a criminal action is always difficult to sustain. The canaille will always go with the canaille. They believed Cran against you and Jones [George Cecil Jones]. It's no good going on to their plane; we must conquer on our own.
As to my position, you are again wrong. It was not want of pluck that decided my action in November. It was (as I told you) mystical reasons.
As to this stand, you are again and more terribly in the wrong. It is not St. Helena. There may be a touch of Elba, but it's mostly Patronos.
And you forget another thing; I'm only at the outset of my career. Even if I died this morning, that would be so. At the moment I dare say that Peter (whom you resemble save in that instead of decrying you affirmed—hence the new church will beat the old) thought that the Crucifixion was the end of Christ's career. As a matter of fact we are only at "They took up stones to stone him; but he passing through the midst of them went his way."
I want you now to look at things from a deeper standpoint. We all make mistakes and quarrel; but essentially we are in sympathy on pretty well every plane. That persists; trifles pass. When they pass, let us be found as ever comrades, in victory as in 'regrettable incident.'
If God be for us, who can be against us?
Ever yours
Perdurabo
Quite right likely about Blake; but he never wrote a sustained passage. And you can't judge a building by one pinnacle.
a.c.
I may be back next week: it depends on certain news.
a.c.
Captain J.F.C. Fuller 89 Overstrand Mansions Battersea Park London
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