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Correspondence from Norman Mudd to Aleister Crowley
The 'Orient' Matter.
22 November [1925], Sunday, 2 a.m.
Saturnus [Karl Germer] thinks:
1. That R∴[ecnatus] [Heinrich Tränker] is so infatuated with his sense of his Magisterial relation to the highly illuminated, [illegible] father, 666, that he is largely unconscious of the turpitude of his latest exploit—and very proud of it.
2. That he has worked this line with Grau [Albin Grau] and Grosche [Eugen Grosche], and succeeded in convincing them of his commission from the Chief to put you [Aleister Crowley] right; and, incidentally, to pick and chose from the debris of your pyramid whatever fragments his superior understanding finds advisable into the fabric of the True Recnartus Pyramid. Meanwhile, to [illegible] you.
I agree generally with this
hypothesis. R's position (as set forth in his letters to [Charles Stansfeld Jones]
in America, vision as
AL. III, his [illegible] Vision, incidental letters sent
to friends, and so on, down to "
But I should say that both Grau and Grosche have too much sense to have any but sham-beliefs in R's pretensions. They must both know in their hearts—from a multitude of incidents—that he is a house built on the sand.
I suspect Saturnus is right in thinking Grosche a pretty complete knave—in the sense (at least) that he has no real devotion to its Work, and is willing, with open eyes, to exploit it for
[. . . ?]
Pansophic movement, its Lodges, and all who stand by it, to [illegible], is a quite feasible project, given the necessary time and energy.
What is not sound tactics is to spend time and energy in trying to force, at this stage, a public persecution. At present, it seems to me quite obvious a [illegible]'s nest.
I have thought out this plan only because you yourself seem resolved that we shall fight R∴'s demon-kingdom [?] on its own level. I think myself that we are wasting our lives in these minute campaigns. All these enemies will be knocked out of action, in really useful ways, if, but only if, you will trust the statement of Liber 418 [The Vision and the Voice]. Every one of us has a tremendous task to accomplish, and not too long a time to accomplish it. All this knockabout 'magic' is neither more nor less than a means of evading these tasks.
Norman Mudd
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has a high degree of self-consistency, and he has probably
worked it out in minute and plausible detail.