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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Frater
Feb. 26 [1925]
Care Frater,
93.
I was very excited to receive your letter. It is certainly very strange the way things have come about. You seem to have arrived just at the time when we can usefully cooperate.
I don't think I know you as well as the old Golden Dawn crowd but I hear that you have written some really quite serious [illegible] on the [illegible] etc. I was in fact thinking of getting into touch with you when your letter arrived from a blue sky.
You do not say what Grade you attempted in the Golden Dawn. I should like to know if any serious teaching at all was ever issued in the Second Order. It is extremely important at this particular juncture that I should have all possible information of the history of the Golden Dawn since 1900 for historical purposes. I do not mean merely a academic sense but for very serious practical purposes which will be clear to you in due course. I can here say no more but that big events are in preparation and I say this chiefly to prepare you for a letter relating to organization of the Work.
You do not say whether you are in touch with Frater Achad [Charles Stansfeld Jones].
I remember little of your nativity or talismans but have a very clear recollection of you as a man with a thoroughly sound point of view and one who meant to get somewhere. In a student of the Occult this is about as rare as an okapi on an iceberg.
Sanders can only be treated with complete contempt.
[illegible] I know fairly well. He is purported to be doing some small work in conjunction with me but all I get out of it is voluminous ravings. He knows a good deal but it is all undigested. He gets almost hysterical at the mere sound of some word that is a little weird and he probably confuses Adam with Professor Adams. It was the latter that discovered Neptune, the Egyptians didn't know about it. The evocation of the Spirit of Neptune seems to have been remarkably successful, if only he had tried something a little more solid.
From your adoption of the Formulae of the Book of the Law I gather that you are with us, and I hope that we may shortly arrange something a little more definite. You do not even tell me your motto. Was it "Sic itus ad Asta" or "Ad Asta per Aspirin"?
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