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Correspondence from Martha Küntzel to Aleister Crowley
Leipzig
June 23, 26 e.v.
Dear Great Brother,
93.
With the greatest anxiety I am looking forward to news from you. Is it a good sign that I don't get any? Is it a bad one? Are you perhaps able to stay on having got everything that is necessary to keep the household going? What a dreary world it is where that cursed money reigns! Will it ever be otherwise? And how is your health. It is all very fine to have done away with the Self, but there still remains the body! And one has to stick to this nuisance and look happy.
I got a letter from Grosche [Eugen Grosche] whom I had asked where he got that set of the Equinox which he mentions as belonging to the Berlin Lodge. He says he bought it from an antiquarian with other interesting and rare books and offered to get me another set for 300 M. I shall ask him now for the address of this man, it is evidently an English firm. Perhaps one would be able to hear who sold them to him!
About the Tree of Life for the Essays [Little Essays Toward Truth]. I have thought of taking the one that is in the Equinox IV, filling out the little rounds with the numbers and the double lines with those of the Paths, three correspondences being given at the bottom of the page. Would that be as you wish it to be done?
I suppose you read in the newspaper that the Theosophical Society in England has voted on the Congress for Krishnamurti as the World Teacher with 600 against 3. I wonder whether two of these three were not Mrs. Walker and Miss Lackie. It is a great pity that these two articles you sent in January for the English and American newspapers could not be sent off, as Mudd [Norman Mudd] struck and Mr. Reeck had no connection with those two countries as he told me when I saw him in Frankfurt. I have not heard from him since then though he promised to go to Berlin and write at once about his success. And I ask myself: Why is it that your Work is hampered in every place and in every way? Are the Forces that oppose it so strong that they are able to hinder the spiritual development of mankind willed by the Gods? I don't believe that! But there are too few at work and when they have worked awhile they run away because they think they know now everything better. If I were but twenty years younger! How little can I do in my old age, and in these horrid times of want. Yet I shall go on working, working as long as my body will let me. And if it should take me ten thousand years—I will attain!
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With my very best wishes and love to everybody
Ever loyally
Your little sister
P.S. Did Grau [Albin Grau] write to you? He never answered my letter, but has let Grosche know that he was going to write to you.
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