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Correspondence from George MacNie Cowie to Aleister Crowley
14 Glenislaw Gardens, Edinburgh.
25 April An XIII [1917]
Care Frater.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
I have received from you today the addition of the Ritual of the II Degree. Yes this is a most valuable addition to not only that ritual, but to the whole general scheme. What has most got me where I live if TH[erion]'s [in Greek] idea that the higher the office, so to speak, the less the material reward. I shall instruct that this addition is to be read at once, not merely at the first possible II Degree ceremony, but to the whole of the Lodge who have already passed the II Degree, and that repeatedly to fix it in firmly memory.
As we get on and the Lodge a little more than pays its expenses, there has been a sign or two of self-interest rearing its ugly head, and I have been impressing the necessity of all sticking together, and the non-importance of the personal self, or attempts at self-exaltation. This new outline of the principles of governance will clinch that nail.
I was in London nearly a fortnight at Easter and found all going well and the Lodge growing. Four new Can[didate]s were received while I was there. Mary Davies—though I know her obvious limitations—makes an excellent L[odge] M[aster] and indeed is chiefly to her that we owe
[The remainder of the letter is missing.]
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