Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Don Isidor Villerino del Viller

 

     

 

Don Isidor Villerino del Viller.

Madrid.

 

 

3 June [1913]

 

 

Puissant Sovereign Grand Commander of the Rite of Memphis.

 

Most Illustrious and very dear Brother.

 

The death of the most puissant and most Illustrious Brother John Yarker, 97° Grand Hierophant of the Rite, has left me sole heir to his authority in the country of which he was Sovereign Grand Master ad vitam. It therefore becomes my duty to summon an electoral college for the purpose of electing a new Grand Hierophant 97°, and I have further much pleasure in proposing the election of Don Isidor, 95°, to that post, not only because he is the eldest in years of us all, but because of the distinguished services he has rendered to the Rite. My proposal is seconded by the most Illustrious and most Puissant Brother Theodor Reuss, 96°, the Sovereign Grand Master General of the German Empire. Should you have any alternative propositions to make I shall be pleased to receive them and to lay them before our most Illustrious and Puissant Brethren in due course.

 

Salutations.

 

B T N K

 

 

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