Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Charles Stansfeld Jones

The House of the Juggler [Adams Cottage]

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[22 August 1916]

Care Frater,

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

This entry in my diary should interest you.

Aug 20. An amazing discovery. The op[eratio]ns to have a child by Hilarion [Jeanne Foster], July 8 on, seven in all, and one upon Helen Westley, ended Sept 12 and Sept 16 with op[eratio]ns at beginning and end of catamenia. These op[eratio]ns are described as peculiarly good. On Sept 23 the Word of the Equinox was Nebulae i.e. the Babe of an Universe (as I now see). This Eq[uino]x the Word is Sol-Om-Om, the child of David's adultery. Now O.I.V.V.I.O. [Charles Stansfeld Jones] was born on June 21, exactly nine months after the g Eqx. On conclusion of Eqx ceremony H.[ilarion] had seduced me; and I had concentrated on the Word just obtained. It is really very remarkable that I did no op[eratio]n for a child after this Sept 12-16. We were at Vancouver on Oct 19 (Two or three days earlier) It is to be noted, too, that H. was the perfect S.[carlet] W.[oman]  as described in CCXX III 44. Then O.I.V.V.I.O. may be the child coming 'from no expected house' since I always thought of a material baby, and never tried for a spiritual son (CCXX III 47) and yet the child of my bowels, since O.I.V.V.I.O. has in asc, and is cusp of my 6th house( the bowels) and alas because I did fuck H. for him. He may be 'mightier than all the kings of the earth' because cast out of Malkuth. I woke up with these ideas in my head about 3.40 this A.M. Note, too, the dream of Sept 20-21, H. as a Titan woman on whom I performed IX° op[eratio]n fully. (In this dream I was more than half awake.) and the triple dream of three consecutive sleeps in two days immediately following the Eqx ceremony. These were all of royalty.

Query; did three men bring presents to O.I.V.V.I.O.? (I know one did) and was there a star?

I enclose a letter from O.H.O. Please copy, and send me a carbon and the original.

I also enclose remaining secret documents of O.T.O. Please retain, making yourself an extra copy for safety, and placing it in a safe place. (P.S. one only; 2 others to-morrow.)

It is very important for you to make your own Qabalah because of CCXX. I 54. 55. III 47.

I am getting hold of my Initiation mentally. I now find that every period of 73 days is exact to a few hours, and has a [illegible], and is a distinct period, so that one could name each section like a ritual.

I must close; the frog elemental whom I invoked has arrived, and I must slay Shaw [Gospel According to St. Bernard Shaw], and the slave-god.

Love is the Law, Love under Will.

Fraternally,

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