Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Charles Stansfeld Jones

 

     

 

 

Collegium ad Spiritum Sanctum,

Cefalù, Sicily.

 

 

Dec. 22, 1922.

 

 

My beloved son,

 

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

 

Thanks for yours of Nov. 25. I am so sorry to hear that you are not doing as well as you should.

     

You have presumably received the "longer letter."

     

No Q.B.L. yet.

     

Re 7º=4o—that is a matter for their 8º=3o's, and anyway I should wish to know the object of your enquiries. As you know, intercommunication is not encouraged.

     

We are still at the nadir financially, but the great succès de scandale of the Drug Fiend [Diary of a Drug Fiend] ought to straighten things out very soon.

     

Lea [Leah Hirsig] is very much better. We do Autohagiography [The Confessions of Aleister Crowley] to the tune of about 4000 words a day, and Estai [Jane Wolfe] is typing it.

     

We have a boy [Raoul Loveday] from Oxford and his wife [Betty May] here. He is already a very advanced scholar, and has the right idea. His wife is rather an invalid, but this place is working its usual miracle.

 

Love is the law, love under will.

 

Thy sire,

 

The Beast 666

 

 

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