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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to J.F.C. Fuller
50 rue Vavin Paris VIe
Aug 17, 1911
Dear Fuller,
Thanks for your note. As far as I understand it, you are proposing to do an impossible task, only safeguarding yourself by swearing a great oath that it shall be at least useless.
I think your flatterers have misled you altogether about the Temple [The Temple of Solomon the King]. As far as my purpose is concerned, the Fra. P. [Perdurabo] documents are the whole thing. These documents are my copyright, and all I need do is to republish them with my own very few words of comment to bunk them up. I should not even regret the 9 Cunning Craftsmen; for fine as that is, it has little to do with P.
But if you want to finish it "in my teeth" you had better rechristen it 'The Pyramid of Cheops the Noring' as I gather that was built of bricks without straw.
This is all very silly. I am devoted to the work I originally started; and there is no time for anything else. Whether I expected anyone to be loyal either to the work or to me is a secret; you have this eternal glory, that you did not preface your desertion of me by extravagant protestations of eternal fidelity; also, when it came to the point, you acted like a real man. I shan't forget it.
However, if you had merely consented to go on working with me quietly, you would have made a very bad year easy. I think that if you had understood you would have done so at whatever cost, for we have been very intimate friends. And the biographer would have been able to say "Oh wine! wine! wine!" As it is, you gave your glory to another. Still, Peter got the keys after his brief colloquy with the cock, and you may not live to be crucified a —— up'ards!
I have had a splendid summer from the point of view of work done, and the Highest Brahma has been pleased to give me a lot of oceans of Infinite Bliss.
Which reminds me that [illegible] is over here—I've seen him 3 or 4 times on the Boulevard.
Yours ever
Aleister Crowley
P.S. Have you left 89 [Overstrand Mansions]?
Captain J.F.C. Fuller 89 Overstrand Mansions Battersea Park S.W.
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