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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Gerald Yorke
55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris, VII
February 24th, 1929
Care Frater:
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Thanks for yours of February 21st. I think Gabriel Dee's idea a very good one. I leave the whole matter in your hands.
Neptune seems to be trine to my progresses Venus for some considerable time, and this ought to enable me to put over all sorts of things in the artistic line. Jupiter moreover is passing over my midheaven, and that ought to bring all sorts of good fortune. At the same time I cannot conceal from myself the fact that I am still in bed with a temperature; feeling perfectly washed out. Between you and me, having gone to bed, I am going to stay there until my conscience drives me up and out.
De Miramar [Maria de Miramar] is also very far from being well, but Regardie [Israel Regardie] seems quite his little self again. It is only that he has to take extreme care not to overdo it for the next six weeks.
Our lady friend suggests our trying to get a pavilion outside Paris from March 20th, where we could do Magick, and have Astarte Lulu Panthea and Monsieur Lenine. The difficulty at present is that nobody is able to run around and look for one. We ought to be able to get a perfectly nice place with a good garden for about 1,500 francs a month. But as apparently we shall not even have one franc a month, the price hardly matters, does it?
Thanks for the translation of the Golden Verses, but what is wanted is a schoolboy's crib. I have tried to arrange this through Miss Küntzel [Martha Küntzel].
You should study that chess game[1] more thoroughly. The really interesting point about [it] is the phases into which the game divides itself after the loss of the Queen. Firstly, the question of avoiding exchanges. Secondly, the gaining of the additional piece required for equality. Thirdly, the proper coordination of those pieces. Fourthly, the winning of the dangerous pawns on the King's side. Next, the separation of the Queen and King. Finally, the control of the centre of the board with the Bishop covering Queen's Rook square. A game of this sort should not be played over once, but studies in detail until every move and sequence of moves is thoroughly understood. To do this will improve your game very conspicuously. The great point is the handling of the pieces in combination, as in the case of the four bulls and the lion in the fable.
As soon as I am well enough, I will take your draft agreement down to Church. It varies so much from the original deed to which I agreed, I am not at all sure of the practical effect of the deed in its present form. For one thing, I can find nothing about the £200, which is wanted for a special purpose of a magical character. Another point is that the difference between £1,000 and £3,000 changes the character of the whole proposition. But after I have seen Church I will let you know more.
Thank you for enclosing Smith's letter of February 4th. I have myself received this morning a long screed from him with a copy of a letter to Kasimira [Kasimira Bass]. It may be that those dragons will divest themselves of their heads.
I still think Hunt [Carl de Vidal Hunt], with some general motive based upon the idea that anything dirty is likely to be profitable to him sooner or later, influenced K. very strongly. In connection with this I ought to mention that Slocombe thinks that the Press Association ought to make an inquiry into Hunt's conduct. I can see no objection to this course. It seems to me that if Hunt gets it in the neck, it will prove to K. that she has been making a fool of herself and urge her to repentance. I am sorry about any complications, but it would be silly to let the matter drop unless we get a couple of thousand pounds from some other source. We don't want to flop at the exact moment of the appearance of the first part of Magick [Magick in Theory and Practice].
We received the appendices of Book 4, Part III [Magick in Theory and Practice]. If Reece has not yet left for America—I think he leaves on the 26th—I will rush it round to him tomorrow morning.
Love is the law, love under will.
Yours fraternally,
666
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