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Correspondence from C. F. Russell to Wilfred Talbot Smith
[EXTRACT]
[14 May 1922]
The word SHIT does not frighten a sophisticated adult; although the same may drive a weak silly woman into convulsions. Similarly on a higher plane, the word CHORONZON does not terrify one who has attained a certain exalted Grade; although one is forced to conclude that to the individual below the ABYSS no horror can be imagined which in any way can compare with the deadly emotion aroused by this complex. Now it is not my desire to frighten any one; but at the same time I do not propose to treat everyone like a child. My policy is not that of keeping the greatest mass of mankind in sheer spiritual ignorance; and my policy is not that which seems to have crept into the Eq[uino]xs, viz: since the word SATAN has been found holy and discarded as a means to make people toe the mark, a new word must be invented to which it is necessary to attribute the conglomerate mass of terrors formerly connected with the old name. . . .
I say all this because I gathered from our conversation in the vicinity of Chinatown that your mind was of somewhat a sceptical type; and to be frank you have demonstrated to me that you are following our first elementary principle, viz, not to credit anything which is not logically demonstrable, so well that, not knowing your motto, I should say it was SCEPTICUS.
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