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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Montgomery Evans
24, rue Lamarck, Paris
16 August 1924.
Dear Montgomery Evans, the Second
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Yours of August 13 just in yesterday. I am sorry you didn't send the second prospectus; we might very well use both to appeal to different classes of readers.
Very sorry to hear that you are in difficulties of the same kind as ourselves. The situation is seriously strained here, owing to the incredibly base and villainous conduct of a Freudian female.
I do hope you will be back in Paris as early as possible. I think that we could get things moving very rapidly if we were working in close conjunction, and there is quite enough money in the "Hag" [The Confessions of Aleister Crowley] for all of us.
Please let me know as soon as possible what are your final plans.
I will send you a few books which I hope will fill the bill, though I wish you had hinted the general type.
There is no further news of England. We hope to get the prospectus in the press on Monday. Thanks for promise of the address-book.
Paris gossip: One more unfortunate, weary of breath, American of course, another victim of prohibition. There is a movement to "clean up Montparnasse." I expect to be treasurer. I need a drink badly. I will not mention your whereabouts and circumstances to any one outside the Order.
I will drop a p[ost] c[ard] to F. H. about Hudleston. I am really too busy at the moment to see any one except on immediately vital matters.
I have no political books. I suggest your taking The Book of the Law as a text-book for a new theory of monarchy. This, by the way, is not quite the right term. We may need a primum inter pares, but it is the quality of the peers that is important. I have written to London to get the book of Iudovici.
I do not know who is the responsible party in the 'Daedalus' mystery.
Do come back and relieve the tedium of toping.
Love is the law, love under will.
Yours ever but very weary and Sickly just now
666
P.S. Will send you a copy of the Beaverbrook letter [An Open Letter to Lord Beaverbrook] in a day or two. Have met several valuable sympathisers.
Enclosing typescript of the Beaverbrook letter. It needs one final revision before printing as a pamphlet. Should very much appreciate your comments on it, as it now stands.
With all good wishes.
Very sincerely yours,
N. Mudd [Norman Mudd].
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