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Correspondence from George MacNie Cowie to Aleister Crowley
14 Glenisla Gardens, Edinburgh.
17 April 1917.
Care Frater.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
About my last action in London was to arrange, personally with W.H. Smith and Sons for the dispatch of the parcel of our literature to Ascona. So this is off my mind at last. Also, I saw H. [Benjamin Charles Hammond] and at his own house, and to better advantage than ever before. But of exactly how he stands, I have no clearer conception, nor when if ever, he will be ready for the concluding chapters. Mary [Mary Davies] says he has got mixed up with the Rosicrucian Society and is threatening to join them. This wouldn't be good for his health, if he let anything be seen, but I am to certain of his fidelity to you, to worry about that. He has removed to a pleasanter part of London (Highbury) and seems more prosperous.
I had not time to read the Mass [Gnostic Mass] carefully till Sunday. I then inferred your purpose in sending it, as we have no Temple, and the whole is too exalted for our present class of B[lessed] b[rethren] I will send it across this week, with a letter, as, though you do not explicitly say, I know what you mean; your letter was waiting my arrival home. The enclosure for Windram [James Windram] I have read, and am sending on. The devotee of Budd was never admitted, smelt too strong of fraud. She's in Bond Str, I'm told, with Mary d'Este-Sturges.
The book against us is I fear only one more of Mary's rosy dreams. I've heard no more of it. Sorry for you. (I have greatly to be on my guard against Mary's quite unconscious exaggerations, and check them when possible.)
[The remainder of the letter is missing.]
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