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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Martha Küntzel
55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris, VII
November 5th, 1928.
Dear Little Sister:
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
I have at last got these letters translated. Birven [Henri Birven] seems to be a darling old idiot. What he says [in his 16 October 1928 letter] about knowing all my works is, I think, absurd and I am sure he does not know their sources either. He thinks he knows everything, but at the same time he talks about a time when I was not acquainted with the work of Rabelais. It is true there was such a time, but I was not then out of my teens.
He does not seem to know that St. Augustine said "Love and do what thou wilt."
There is one word which we could not read: "They called me a Freemason without Schar (?)," as near as we could get it, and no one can guess what the word means.
On the other hand his general line of thought is quite fair in its way, but the whole thing is muddled. What Therion says and does is of no importance to anyone. The work has to be judged by its value and that can only be tested by experience.
You might tell him if you think it desirable that Miss Hirsig [Leah Hirsig] was excluded from communication with us because she allowed Mudd [Norman Mudd] to make her his cat's-paw in a treacherous scheme which he had inaugurated.
I think your answer to him is perfectly satisfactory.
I hope to hear better news from you about Gebhardi [Otto Gebhardi] to whom please convey my utmost devotion.
Love is the law, love under will.
Yours fraternally
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