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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Gerald Yorke
55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris, VII
November 7th, 1928.
Care Frater:
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Thanks for toothpaste and Abramelin oil; also letter to Mrs. Walker. I think it should be sent to Mrs. Walker, anyhow. It is a very good letter; and you never know.
It is not worth my writing to you about Kasimira [Kasimira Bass], as the situation is still too complicated. I am still in the hopes of arriving as a compromise. It seems to me obviously a mistake to have given Ogden [C. K. Ogden] a chance of saying that he would wait until the band-wagon passed. Simply tell him that it is a good proposition anyway, and that if he waits for us to be successful in other lines, he won't get the same kind of a contract. It is a case when an ounce of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
You need not be afraid of my falling out with Hunt [Carl de Vidal Hunt].
(The tone of Ogden's reference to Hunt was—if not discourteous—at least bordering on the disdainful. One of the things that you should keep in mind is the ultra-aristocratic attitude of people who are engaged in literature. For the most part, in particular, they look upon journalists very much as your mother would look upon a street walker.)
Love is the law, love under will.
Yours fraternally,
666.
Gerald Yorke, Esq., 9, Mansfield Street, London, W. 1.
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