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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Charles Stansfeld Jones
The House of the Juggler [Adams Cottage]
An XII
[10 August 1916]
Care Frater,
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
I enclose Checkie's latest. I think some good may come of this. I've told him to preach the Las as he goes, and he is to call himself Hammanke Dowlal—the servant of Harman.
The walk—he must have only $11 to start with, ought to make a man of him. Of course they may lock him up as a lunatic, in which case we must come to the rescue and get all possible publicity. Keep an eye on the mother and ask Bickers [Horace Sheridan-Bickers] or some man on the Press to watch out for any such story. But I've told him not to talk to the Press, unless for the $100 he owes us for our good advice!
So be wary and alert, Sir Knight!
Very warm thanks for letters typed. The idea is to make a set of 'cases', showing how various points have been dealt with in the past, as a guide to others.
I think you must have been doing the magick I asked you; for I have got two stenographers and may have a third by this afternoon! I'm up to my neck on refuting Shaw's Preface to Androcles [Gospel According to St. Bernard Shaw]. The next miracle, please, Very Holy, Very Illuminated, Very Illustrious and Very Dear Brother, should be to find me a publisher.
The VII is 33° 90° 95°. Masonry stops where we begin.
A and P masonry is absorbed in O.T.O.
Envelopes to you should be addressed to His Excellency Sir Stansfeld Jones, Viceroy of his Most Sacred Majesty of Ireland Iona and all the Britains for the Dominion of Canada, [illegible] in the Sanctuary of the Gnosis, etc etc.
Letters begin
V.H. V.I. V.I. and V.D. Brother, Viceroy of etc
Sign yourself [eleven-fold cross] Parzival Hon. X° O.T.O. Canada
Love is the Law, Love under Will.
Fraternally in the Bonds of the Order,
[eleven-fold cross] Baphomet X° O.T.O. Ireland Iona and all the Britains
P.S. Insist on your "Sir". If any one disputes your claim, offer to fight him, as a knight should. Swords or lances are knightly weapons; don't use fists or guns.
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