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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to James Branch Cabell
57 Grand River Avenue West Detroit, Michigan
Nov. 17 [1919]
Dear Mr. Cabell,
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
I was delighted with your letter, and that you like my review. I have asked for a copy of the Equinox III (the only thing available) to be sent to you. I am hoping that you will see the Law as the only possible solution of all present-day problems. I am just off to Detroit to give three lectures—Labour, Religion, and Death—and thence, by the Beard of the Prophet! to a Free Country [England]. I am trying to find an Abbey of Thelema for free men.
It is dreadful when one thinks that Shelley looked to America for freedom and that the dream has failed. Frank Harris says America was still free thirty years ago and my short visit in 1900 gave me a fine impression. Nobody can tell me exactly how the tree rotted and why. Can you?
My review of Jurgen was designed to get you to tell me the time anagrams of Sereda. I am sure you had an idea of your own. But you would not take the fly.
Love is the law, love under will.
Yours most sincerely,
AC.
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