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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Gerald Yorke
Hotel Foyet Paris
5 April [1928]
C∴F∴
93.
Yours of 1st.
All right about Amexco now: but inspection delayed till next week.
My "private finances". There ain't no sich animile. I am wholly consecrated to the Great Work. I should never bother about money at all, but go to live in a convenient desert; only (worse luck) They gave me this dirty job of editing etc which demands certain conditions.
The "business partner". I want a man with plenty of time and little money, who has some knowledge of the publishing and bookselling businesses if possible.
I have thought of another name, by the way—a very old friend, the Hon Everard Feilding. I've lost sight of him since my illness.
I do not want to deal direct. I am too great a fool in all business matters, except to plan a general idea. Besides, it is a question of getting in touch with third parties whom I do not know. It needs a man on the spot. Of course I could explain the assets to a possible partner. It's a gamble, like all business: but a jolly good one. (ask the rubber people if anything is safe—or the trustees who bought Consols at 110!) You need not recommend a man to do it: just put it up to him. You don't seem quite to understand about Metro-Goldwyn. But I hope in a week or so to be able to write something definite.
Editing [Magick in Theory and Practice]. Your suggestions may be very valuable. Only remember that things may look different to when you're 50. I shouldn't have passed a lot of that book when I was 25. Nor would I now if the date were 1890. But things have moved since then. You are watching the cornered rat reaction of superstition; don't take these violent outbursts of "morality" and "religion" for movements of growth.
We consider business details when the book is nearly ready. But I don't advise you to use your name, or compromise yourself in any way. We must have a G.H.Q. [Grand Headquarters] somewhere, somehow. I'm rather a nervous wreck from overstrain at the new Magick operations. Have taken a day off, and hope to start again to-night very fit.
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Fraternally
666.
Title: yours is a bit long.
I think
MAGICK its theory and practice by The Master Therion
being Part III of Book 4
Keeping the subtitles very small.
The cover, only:
Magick
The Master Therion
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