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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Charles Stansfeld Jones
Palace Hotel San Francisco
Nov 2 [1915]
C∴[are] F∴[rater]
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Yours of Oct 29. It gives me great pleasure to hear that Bro [F.P.] Wagner has taken up the matter so promptly. The thing for you to do is to give this coast a chance. There is a sort of committee here at 5 to-morrow to decide what is to be done. My idea will be to get them to arrange for you to have a job of some sort here. (We should not approve of you coming as a salaried servant of the Order; every one must earn his own living.) I hope it would be a better job than what you have there! Well, then, get your officers to develop as much responsibility and initiative as possible, in case this comes off. For yourself, study assiduously the art of government. I shall leave with you a memorandum of the people I have met here telling you what to expect from each, and how to deal with certain peculiar cases.
Of course all this depends on to-morrow; still be briefed I shall naturally look after your interests, and see that any job here is a long sight better than your BC Electric. I shall say you are getting $150 a month in V[an]'couver, but would not be sacrificing something for the sake of the Order. (Art of Government Vol ii Chap 333)
I will try to look up Arthur Crane, though as I leave Thursday the 4th (I suppose) I may not have much time.
Yours in the Bonds of the Order
[eleven-fold Cross] Baphomet X° O.T.O.
Soror Hilarion [Jeanne Foster] salutes you.
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