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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Charles Stansfeld Jones
October 29, 1917
Sir Stansfeld Jones P.O. Box 70, Vancouver, B.C.
My Beloved son,
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
I do not think that any of these mysteries lie hidden in the mere initials of the name of the order. The only point is the identification of the star with the barb of the arrow mentioned in 418 [The Vision and the Voice]. Your speculations are not without ingenuity and I think you will find certain very great advantages in substituting the circle for the vesica in your working. Although this is directly contrary to the main idea of the elixir as given in "O. T. O."
I quite understand what is happening to your environment. Force does get out in this peculiar way. I doubt whether it can be avoided. It is always making trouble for me. People go and get an attraction which is more or less insane in vehemence. The next thing is that people overdo it and get what is called "Crowley Indigestion". This shortly dissolves itself into "The Vision of the Demon Crowley".
Your Ouija Board experiment is rather fun. You see how very unsatisfactory it is, but I believe things improve greatly with practice. I think you should keep to one angel, and make the magical preparations more elaborate.
Love is the law, love under will.
Thy Sire,
Θ
AC / RBG
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