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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Carl de Vidal Hunt
55 Avenue de Suffren Paris VII
October 25th, 1928.
Dear Hunt:
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Yours of Wednesday just in. There is nothing whatever to fear about libels. The people concerned would never dream of coming into court. I know a great deal too much for that. If you make me a list of the people libelled, I can bring justification in every case. At the same time it might, of course, be advisable for other reasons to eliminate certain portions in the openly published book [The Confessions of Aleister Crowley].
I am going to Lyon tomorrow morning and will be back Saturday night or Sunday morning; am lunching with Mrs. Freeman on Sunday and you are invited if you are back in time.
Give Miss Otter my love.
I don't quite know what you mean by the old crowd. Now what we want is a few brand new millionaires.
What you say about "The Net" [Moonchild] is very good news, but the people principally attached are now dead. They were not when the book was written. You could not bribe anyone of them with a million dollars to come into court. Waite [Arthur Edward Waite], for example, who was a very litigious person, wanted to bring libel action for things that I published about him in the "Equinox." His solicitors simply "sat on his head" and refused to let him go on.
I do think you ought to concentrate on getting Cape [Jonathan Cape publishing firm] to come over to Paris. After an interview with him, I am sure he would see the light.
Love is the law, love under will.
Yours fraternally,
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