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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Charles Stansfeld Jones
[Undated: circa late September 1916?]
Son,
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Your letter from Malkuth is very amusing, you certainly take after your father. I think however you possible need to develop the Panic Spirit and I am not sure I can describe exactly what that is. You know more or less its essence is making other people ridiculous while enjoying yourself. I appreciate what you say about R.S.J. [Rubina Stansfeld Jones]. I have always felt sure that there was some lack of ability to live in higher planes in that quarter. The enclosed from Checkie explains everything. I think he will make admirable cannon fodder, By the way just before the equinox is always a bad time. The old current has petered out as it will. I shall probably send you the new Word [of the Equinox] by tomorrow's mail or Monday's. Read the Attis Adonis Osiris volume carefully three times
Love is the Law, Love under Will.
Fraternally,
Θ
P.S. Since writing the above, yours of Sept. 12 has arrived. It seems to me rather hopeless about Checkie in which term I wish to include humanity! It is my experience that people are nearly always incapable of following my instructions: of course it is all right for Checkie to have reason to have got to the desired haven. But where is the $100? He is evidently a person of exceedingly weak mind, even for a human being. Probably therefore he could be trained as a missionary or preacher for which an unusually weak mind is the principal qualification. Having done this, he had better be sent to work walking to wherever I am at the time, Texas or Florida. It ought to do a lot of good to have a [illegible] or two on the road. In fact, I was about to suggest it anyway for some of your own members. I think a very strong effort should be made, just at present to spread the law gradually right down the coast.
[eleven-fold cross] B.
The C. of Death is perhaps "The Evil Mother" of Jung.
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