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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Norman Mudd
Collegium ad Spiritum Sanctum, Cefalu, Sicily
Apr. 22, 1921.
My dear Norman,
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
I hope you have got my two letters from Paris, and that answers from you are on the way. This is just to ask you to do something to help the Work. I regret to say that I am selecting you, not because of any particular brilliance in the star which you are, but because of its position. However, mathematician as you are, you will understand all that.
The point is that you are comparatively near Johannesburg. My representative there used to be on J.T. Windram [James Windram], a chartered accountant, Bayard's Observatory, and he has disappeared leaving no address, which he has a perfect right to do, but I have also a perfect right to get into communication with the people who used to be under him. These were principally a man named Yardley [Lewis Yardley], the personification of human weakness but a thoroughly good fellow and one, A.W. Bauristhene, who must be some kind of Kaffir. I suspect him of being rather a good chap.
If you, by correspondence or otherwise, can recover the trace of Windram and let the other two men know that headquarters are now here and that we are anxious to continue to help them, it would be very nice of you.
Do you remember "Drunken James of Corpus"? He re-introduced himself to me in Paris where he is now a highly placed official in the League of Nations—one more example of what drunkenness may lead to.
Love is the law, love under will,
Yours
The Beast 666
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