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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Charles Stansfeld Jones
New Washington Hotel Seattle.
[Undated: circa 23 October 1915]
C∴[are] F∴[rater] Very Illustrious Sir Knight and Very Dear Brother,
I had a very pleasant voyage, though after Vancouver's hours of busy honey it was rather dull in parts. And Seattle has not been a success in the same way; far far from it!
However, where there's a Will there's a Way. To-morrow is also a day. I can think of several other helpful proverbs, but nothing that will be any good before Sunday afternoon at the earliest. Building temples is often weary work; suppose, for example, one has a Sword, and no Trowel! I am comforting myself with the story of the Ibis and the Humming-Bird.
It was splendid in Vancouver; I am glad to know you so much better. You have Will, and you have Intelligence; you will go far. Bickers [Horace Sheridan Bickers] really knows a whole lot of people, including a millionaire widow. You should talk about me to him; he had not seen me for a long time; and in his present mood is enthusiastic. He came to Victoria with me. He knows people there, too, in stacks. His real trouble is Vital Scepticism, or something very like it. You have to take advantage of his moments of enthusiasm, and so arrange things that when he lets go suddenly it doesn't matter to you.
I will write you again from Palace Hotel S.[an] F.[rancisco]: I hope on arrival to find a letter from you. Presumably I leave Portland by Sunday night train.
Don't forget that millionaire
widow; if you must try idiotic experiments based on a
complete misunderstanding of Sacred Books you had better
arrange it so as to get some kind of good out of it.
I am sorry I could not accept your hospitality in Vancouver; but your lodge, beautiful as it is, has not got a Red Room; and I had to hold some chapters.
Yours in rather a curious mood but in the Bonds of the Order
[eleven-fold cross] Baphomet X° O.T.O.
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