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Correspondence from George MacNie Cowie to Aleister Crowley
14 Glenisla Gardens, Edinburgh.
[Undated: circa September 1916?]
[Letter fragment, being the last two pages of a letter]
Very well, tho' (I'm no reincarnation of George Washington) I can't tell a lie and say, yes, the McA[rthy]'s[1] are gentlemen and doing quite right. NO One dislikes them in the same way one dislikes unpleasant insects, and that's that. There isn't any real malice in me in this really. Where I've been guilty is in bad etiquette towards my own Order. Never mind, it's a brother who loves you and is doing his honest best for the Order. I won't be quite comfortable now, till you've wiped the blood off my nose and given me your blessing and as brothers we fought.
To-day I went with Althea [Hobbs] to the depository, but couldn't get at the stuff at all, for the things you wanted. She will try again, but it's missed this mail. I found she hadn't done a line of V. of Silence [Voice of the Silence] Commentary, so although I hardly know how to pay for it, I've told her to send it to a typist at once and I'll send you your copy pretty soon.
I'm afraid A[thea Hobbs] isn't really much use to M.D. [Mary Davies] who is keeping her on, more for the general benefit than her own. She's a good soul, Mary, and I'm very fond of her. Bro[ther] D. is a most useful man in Lodge. I wish I were more clear as to Hammonds [Benjamin Charles Hammond] status, he was VI degree in the list given me. I've always addressed him as such. I've just been told he says he is a VII degree, and if so should have taken his share, as such. I came because I knew of no other VII degree in London.
By the way, you won't of course regret having let me read the IX degree. I have not had time to study it at all but the effect of these MSS and the New Manifesto has been to enable me to realise in a way I could not before, the tremendous importance and dignity of the O.T.O. secrets, and to add to my own personal senses of [illegible] such an ass still, as not to love Miss McArthy.
Must stop as it's nearly mail time. Forgive
Yours in the Bonds of the Order.
Fraternally.
F[iat] P[ax].
1—[For 'McArthy' read 'German'. Gerald Yorke.]
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