Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Theodor Reuss

 

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[27 November 1921]

 

 

It is my will to be O.H.O. [Outer Head of the Order] and Frater Superior of the Order and avail myself of your abdication—to proclaim myself as such. . . . You talk of my nominees. Do not forget that you sent the first of them a charter from yourself in the hopes that it would induce him to betray me.

     

I should really be obliged to you if you would tell me how you got into your head that I am a weak man. I have never taken off my hat to anybody except in condescension. Your undoubted age and your undoubted merit command respect but authority reposes on force.

 

Baphomet O.H.O.

 

 

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