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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Frank Bennett
c/o Thomas Cook & Son, 245 Broadway, New York City, N.Y.
An XII
[Written between 11-13 February 1917]
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Yours of Dec 21 to hand. You should never omit the Greetings to anybody.
I am glad you are so well determined. Constant toil in ploughing is necessary if we are to have harvest. But you should certainly yoke Bro. Dunn [Ernest Dunn]. He sends me cards of greeting for New Year; but he is supposed to be the Head, isn't he? And he ought to be giving every minute of his time and every penny of his purse and every drop of his blood. Unless he does this, he can't be VII°. We want no dummies. This is an Official Message, but you may frame it in more ceremonial terms.
I wrote to G.[rand] T.[reasurer] G.[eneral] [George MacNie Cowie]. On your behalf,* and may be he will have let you have some books by now.
You might try to convert "Spookologist,"[1] he seems an intelligent person; I wrote him direct. Show him that we're reasonable people, with no fads, but a sincere wish to increase human knowledge for the benefit of mankind.
I shall hope to have good news of you every month now.
Love is the law, love under will.
Fraternally
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From Aleister Crowley
*you must get on his soft side yourself, by direct and continuous communication. By the way, drop the 'humble servant' nonsense.
1—"Spookologist" was the pseudonym of a journalist who wrote a regular column for "The Truth" newspaper in Sydney in which he humorously debunked various of the occult and Spiritualist groups that then flourished in that city. Early in February 1917 "Spookologist" attended one of Bennett's lectures incognito, and a few days later published a rather lackluster account. Bennett had obviously forwarded a clipping of his column on to Crowley.
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