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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Gerald Yorke
die Veneris [Undated: circa March 1929]
Another thing-hard-to-believe. During my absence a man called; a man whom I have known but slightly, though from 1915. He left a card "Hearing you were in trouble, I came to see if I could do anything for you". (As opposed to "I will come and see you as soon as I am quite sure that you are out of trouble"). Well, I got on to him by phone, as he happened to be in N.Y. (where I met him) just at the time when I was pretending to be pro-German, Irish rebel, etc in the hope of getting a job in our Naval Intelligence, to whom I reported all I did and heard. And this morning he came round and it turns out he knows the Minister of the Interior very well indeed—translated all his books into English etc. He also told me that Cosgrave [John O'Hara Cosgrave] was in Paris—Cosgrave was the editor of N.Y. Sunday World, through whom I got my introduction to the U.S. Dept of Justice as soon as America got into the War! So really I don't think it is going to be so awfully dangerous for you to come over in a year or two. In fact, if the whole trouble doesn't blow over in a week I shall be suprized.
Long letter from Smith this morning. He says he sent you 40. So I don't need to worry about cash for a long while. Now perhaps you'll believe in those Romans! "We walk by faith, not by sight"——Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian!!!
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