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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Gerald Yorke
55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris, VII
January 12th, 1929.
Care Frater:
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
I have received an entirely satisfactory letter from Aumont [Gerard Aumont].
I have not received your promised draft of £20 to his order. You have made me break my word to him. Like the late Queen Victoria, we are not amused.
He is very anxious to receive the money on Monday, so as to begin work at once. I have consequently sent him my cheque for £20. I ask you, therefore, to arrange with the Westminster Bank to telegraph to their branch in Lyon to cash this cheque over the counter on Monday. They ought to get the telegram before closing hours, so that if Aumont presents himself at the bank in Lyon by, let us say, 3:30 Monday afternoon, he will be able to touch the money.
I am sending him a copy of those parts of this letter that concern him.
Aumont wants to defer his visit to Paris till the 26th, as in that case he will have the work in shape to revise with me and can spend a week here. I therefore strongly advise you to defer your own visit till the 26th also, and if possible to extend it at least over Monday, so that we can, if necessary, have a free business day to talk to people like Rhys.
I have agreed to the terms of the Lecram Press [Paris printers], and I think you should send them the cheque for £300 on account as early as possible.
Regardie [Israel Regardie] hopes to complete The Vision and the Voice today.
We are going to be extremely busy going through the copy of 'Magick' [Magick in Theory and Practice], as Cope [Stuart R. Cope of the Lecram Press] complains that some pages, though good enough for an Englishman to read, might be difficult for a French working printer, and any mistakes due to our faulty copy would be charged to author's corrections.
If you have not got the six Simon Iff stories in the International, I shall have them typed by an outsider. Regardie and I are going to have very little sleep for the next month. Incidentally we never know whether we are going to have anything to eat, because it is quite impossible to find out from the bank what money is or is not there. This also includes an irritation unsuited to our exalted grades. I want to have enough money in the house to go on for a month without bothering.
Love is the law, love under will.
Yours fraternally,
666.
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