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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Gerald Yorke
55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris VII
October 29th, 1928
Care Frater:
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
While waiting for Hunt [Carl de Vidal Hunt] to call with news of his mission, I use a little spare time to write to you about your astrological prospects.
I should not take hunting admonition too seriously. It is too picturesque to be satisfactory. Again, with regard to the passing of Saturn over one's Sun and the planets close to it, while it is true that I had a very bad time on the last occasion when this happened, the previous transit 30 years earlier was associated with the best years of my life, from the point of view of improving health, getting out of trouble, coming into money etc.
I want you to remember too that my astrological studies are nothing but studies. I don't use it at all as I do the Yi to base decisions on. I observe the phenomena as they occur. I will undertake a regular research when I have an adequate staff of about six calculators. In any case I rather agree with the views of astrologers expressed in Abramelin; and, further, I don't think that in any case the planetary motions are more than a background. Sapiens Dominabitur Astris. Saturn, again, is not necessarily a bad planet. In my own horoscope he is one of the strongest and best. It depends on us to bring out the best in our planets.
Further I quite agree with the attitude you yourself took about the matter when we discussed it. Everything started to go well with the arrival of you and Kasimira [Kasimira Bass] on the scene. The function of the latter is, perhaps, not at present thoroughly clear, but, as it is written; "There was a man whose name was Job".
I think the above gives a fair summary of my mature views. If in the darkness you break your right arm, I should be quite contented without requiring any further disasters from you.
Love is the law, love under will.
Yours fraternally,
666.
Gerald Yorke, Esq. 9, Mansfield Street, London, W. 1.
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