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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Charles Stansfeld Jones
c/o Fifth Avenue Bank New York City
May 6. [1916]
Care Frater,
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
The mystery of the disappearance of your letter was cleared up five minutes ago. I had put it in my pocket to answer!!! This shows what happens to me when I am undergoing initiation. You must have "bitter and unexpected revelations". You must thus acquire sense. When you don't care, and foresee everything anyhow, it becomes less amusing to tease you, and perhaps They may quit. You have to be as hard as steel and as soft as snow. Now get on, and don't worry about your sorrows. They are watching you all the time, and appoint a remedy for every ill. Stick to The Work; nothing else matters one jot. Such are the words of consolation! I guess, too, that the particular form of the revelation is meant to liberate you from some stupid limited idea. I rather wish you were able to come over and spend a month with me; but it is probably best as it is. If this fool game has taught me one thing more than another, it is to let Them manage everything. I took the wind out of somebody's sails the other day. He was anxious about my "life's happiness", and I merely remarked that I had "no personal feeling in the matter". Result: I was able to Do What I Willed.
I find I remembered enough of your letter to cover it without the MS., so I need write no more. But with additional emphasis I conclude:
Love is the law, love under will.
Yours fraternally,
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