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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Gerald Yorke
[Undated: circa March 1929]
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Yours of Tuesday, with £2, in this morning only.
I don't quite understand your allusion to AL II 58-60. Do you mean [illegible] 58-60? In any case, this is to help you to understand.
You are all wrong about Hunt [Carl de Vidal Hunt]. His letter was very cleverly written—too cleverly for a man of your age. But it is recognized here as meaning: go on paying my salary, or I make a stink. The other letters you send me confirm this. Also his other games, e.g. with the Grand Duke Alexander.
Surely you can see that if a man is discharged, his last duty is to return papers etc entrusted to him.
You are quite wrong in thinking that there is any definite charge. It is a type of blackmail well known in France—Aumont [Gerard Aumont] can quote you dozens of cases. My lawyer says that he can certainly find out the truth; and then Paul Boncour has only to say one word, and the whole trouble vanishes (Of course this way used more money.)
I am sure Regardie [Israel Regardie] was right is saying that your babbling to Hunt gave him his purchase.
I do not think that your arrangement with Hunt to spy on me in the guise of helpers was quite Etonian.
Why should you think that I will come to England? I will go to Brussels to my poor friends, innocently expelled for my sake, and sink or swim with them.
Don't worry about my finances. Read that Bible, hang it all! I may be fed by ravens, or there may be a curse of oil which failed not.
Or I may die; but, by God I'll die in my tracks!
About your Probationer's Oath, you should search your conscious as to what it implies. Note that because you have great natural possibilities, resources, etc, you are tested harder than the average. I was, myself. I had to offer all, without counting the cost; and I am well rewarded.
If you could only realize how happy I am about all this! Surely at least you can see that the attack coincides with the issue of "Magick" [Magick in Theory and Practice].
Do see, care frater, that the one and only point is to get out that book. I went yesterday to Lecram [Press]—though I nearly fainted with weakness—and put through the last difficult bits. Tuesday A.M. I hope to O.K. this, and then I don't care if I'm in Brussels or Honolulu!
So see, moreover, that my advice top you is directly contrary to my own personal advantage.
About policy, the only way out is a complete showdown, the exposure of all these idiotic lads.
I should go to my family with the greatest confidence, if the worst came of the cost.
Carmery[?], from Hearst, called: thinks contract 6 months probable. Answer in say 2 weeks.
I have to have an operation on my nose Tuesday. If things go wrong, may have to join my friends Thursday. But I think my lawyer is a pretty good man.
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Fraternally
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