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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Jane Wolfe
55 Ave.de Suffren, Paris, VII
Nov. 20th, 1928
Cara Soror:
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Very glad to get your letter of October 30th. For some reason or other I cannot place Scholl. I thought that was the name of the man with whom I went to the private view of Variety, but if you say he was not a business brain, I do not see how it can be he.
Viereck's [George Slyvester Viereck] wife was not particularly rich, and he was apparently very much in love with her. I think his degeneration, if it has taken place, would be more due to his lack of moral fibre.
Huysman's "La Bas" was written entirely about me. He was even thoughtful enough to do it thirty years before I was born. I was very touched by the attention.
I certainly think Sig Schlager sounds a possible person. I hope you are making a serious effort to collect a few people with at least on R.[ich] M.[an] from the W.[est] who will start a small cell to cultivate the work.
We have had a series of misadventures. Nothing of course in my young life, but rather trying to these innocent children in their twenties. I think everything is going to come out fine.
Astarte just blew in from the country, and is studying The Hunting of the Snark under the guidance of the High Priestess of Voodoo (The Woman of Samaria is in Pralaya). However, unless something happens the frog will have to be buried alive at midnight on Friday.
I expect great things from you in the near future. Smith [Wilfred Talbot Smith] is doing splendidly, but we want an hundred men like him.
I am enclosing a copy of "Some Wake" which people here think pretty good. I do not think you have a corrected copy.
Since you do not mention it, I take it that your health is now absolutely all right.
Love is the law, love under will.
Yours fraternally,
666.
Miss Jane Wolfe, 4351 Kingswell Avenue, Los Angeles, Calif.
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