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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Mrs. Graham (Aelfrida Tillyard)
[27 June 1913]
Dear Soror Sarasvati,
You think your records about the Trances and things are dull, but they would not be dull to me because they show signification. I told you that it would be very hard work, but you must not shirk it. When I say tired I mean mentally tired, and you never seem to me to be that. In fact your mental activity is one of your worst features. With a little of this practice you will learn to love every form of thought with almost incredible intensity. Incidentally the break ought to do you a lot of good physically. [next two lines are illegible] Bye and bye you will discover that every statement involves its own contradiction. I think you will find The Soldier and the Hunchback in Eq[uinox] I stimulating.
You ought to send me the lovely poem in [?]. I liked the other poem very much and the reason I have not got your book is that I handed it over immediately for review to the most poetically minded member of our staff and I cannot get her to return it, owing I suppose to the fact that she always sleeps with it under her pillow. However when I do get it I will let you know immediately. I hope I shall be able to do this before Paris.
Yours fraternally.
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