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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Charles Stansfeld Jones
20 Aug 14.
Care Frater
I enclose a Manifesto of the M∴M∴M∴
With regard to your letter of July 1st I asked you for the meaning of the Letters A∴A∴ in order to stimulate your research. The vast countenance is very good, but you should not stop there. Your working out of these cycles is very interesting indeed. It is very curious that 2 should be exactly the opposite of 5, both these number being of a combative nature. 8 appears to be a perfect number, and all the others to contain all the digits, but only once each. I am glad you thought of this, and that you understand the value of producing geometrical figures to represent them graphically. There must, of course, be some formula which will cover the whole number of possible cases.
You ask how I could help you, what it all means. It always helps to get down to something deeper, and it always helps you to put two things together and make one of them.
I had a very curious sort of trance some time ago, I am not quite sure whether it was a trance or a dream, the circumstances were peculiar, but I got this statement.
Mental images leave no trace.
As you know matter cannot be destroyed, nor can motion, you can only transform them, but thoughts are apparently not eternal in this way. In my trance or whatever it was. I had been reducing symbols to the Lingam and Yoni and destroying them in the combination of these two. In this way all things being illusion they could be destroyed, and were so. The practical issue of this is that one should take the Mahasatipatthana Method of getting rid first of Nama and Rupa and then of Vedana, all things being thus mere mental perceptions can be concentrated in groups, and then destroyed in detail by being equilibrated or married to their opposite.
This is another way of saying what I tried to say [in] Konx Om Pax, and rather reminds me of the instruction given in Liber HHH 3rd Method. I am sure it is an admirable plan, and probably easier than going on with the Mahasatipatthana practice to its bitter end.
I had the greatest difficulty to reduce Perception to Tendencies and I do not think I have got it nearly right even now.
I append herewith a detailed criticism on the Zelator Examination.
Yours Fraternally.
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