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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Gerald Yorke
55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris, VII
November 18th, 1928.
Care Frater:
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Your letter of no date enclosing those from Pyke and Windram [James Windram]. I quite agree with you about Pyke. Foreman's [N. J. N. Foreman] view on the subject are, I believe, sound. At the same time the way to unsettle the convictions of Pickfords is to do something! If we had a couple of thousand in the bank, I think it would be wise using one hundred on the arbitration. I may point out that Mrs. Walker definitely promised to meet the cost of the arbitration.
I don't see what Windram has really done with his manuscripts [re Dr Dee]. He does not seem to have made any genuine discoveries, which I think is quite absurd, because he is an extremely advanced Exempt Adept and has had all this stuff for a long while. I only had ten days in the Bodde [Bodleian Library], but in that time I had advanced so far that I felt quite sure that an extra month would have put me in possession of the whole secret. My time being limited, I just had the manuscripts copied; but they were sent direct to Windram and I have not been able to see them since.
I take it you have asked him to send them along. We can have them recopied, if necessary.
How is old Stalleybrass? Is he a director of Kegan Paul or something? I don't know if you have missed a letter of mine about the probable price of the serial rights in England.
In your next paragraph, which breathes the fragrance of exquisite pessimism, you probably mean "you are Regardie [Israel Regardie]" when you say "you and Germer [Karl Germer]".
I used to feel like that myself. But years of really remarkable punctuality on the part of the Gods make me feel exactly like J. P. Morgan on his brighter days. Why the devil can't you take the same point of view as you did about the possible hunting accident? The cases are entirely parallel.
I am making a stab at going on with the Pythagoras. In fact I am quite enthusiastic about it. But I really need a Skeat's Etymological Dictionary. Mine was destroyed by the Custom's authorities on account of its gross obscenity. If you happen to have one, I should like to borrow it. If not, you might look out for a second hand copy.
Love is the law, love under will.
Yours fraternally,
666.
P.S. Our Yi symbol for dealing with Mrs Freeman is [I Ching Hexagram] "48—the Well"—which appears to indicate we should have a very carefully prepared clean plan. I think it is very possible to interest her, but you are certainly the person to do it.
666.
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