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Correspondence from George MacNie Cowie to Aleister Crowley
14 Glenisla Gardens, Edinburgh.
[Undated: circa 1916?]
Oh no, I wasn't taking an exception to the confident style of the new Manifesto. It pre-supposes the existence of a powerful organisation already active, instead of a mere handful of people in London which is all that is visible in the outer circle. But it would have been futile to admit this. The confident tone is right and necessary, and there was nothing I would alter. Besides in time all will become truer and truer.
The improvement on the old one is that it does not emphasise matters, which, however true, the man in the street receives with a smile and a tendency to regard us as charlatans. This has been avoided in the new one. I explain to a man that not I, but They, possess the Philosopher's Stone, then I catch him regarding thoughtfully, say the hole in the seat of my breeks.
Hope you got the two copies of Liber C all right. There was an omission or two I now remember, which you will easily catch up, Latin and Greek sentences.
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