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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Gerald Yorke
55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris, VII
March 5th, 1929
Care Frater:
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Yours of the 3rd. About Frazier Hunt, it is rather tragic that people should still think I am a scholar. I do feel so humiliated by such absurdities.
I doubt if it would be much good my coming over to see him. I don't know what we could talk about, and I am the man at the wheel here in one hell of a storm.
I have still got a lot of fever on me, and de Miramar [Maria de Miramar] is very far indeed from being well. The man of sin complains of being constantly tired. I am insisting on his lying down for an hour in the middle of the day.
I wrote to you yesterday enclosing a letter to Lecram [Press]. I have simply got to keep after them. I should be round to see them all the time if I were well enough to do so.
I see no reason why you should not sketch out a series of articles with Hunt and make the contract with him yourself.
About the £200, you don't quite understand. The money is not wanted for any clothes or other personal expenditures, but for the performance of a definite magickal operation in an emergency. It is (for example) not wanted now, and could not be used now even if I had it. But the whole of the misfortunes of last year's affairs were due to the fact that I was being put to all sorts of unnecessary expenses in order to get in this $10,000.00. I had every reason to believe that we should be successful, and what happened was entirely unreasonable. I cannot accuse myself of folly or lightness.
You repeatedly told me that last year's advances were in the nature of an unconditional loan. Of course I would rather have preferred to have the capital secured on the general agreement, and as soon as we have passed this crisis I shall want you to do that.
You make me smile when you say that the danger would be real if [Martin] Birnbaum came in. What would happen on the contrary is that he would blow his nose three or four times and the dollars would come tumbling into the bank from every quarter. He is the kind of man who makes a success of everything he touches.
I think you are right about Regardie [Israel Regardie]. But I personally do not think there is going to be any privation. It is a critical situation. The whole trouble is that we were delayed in getting down to real work by the ship grounding on the Bass [Kasimira Bass] rock. But we are now going ahead full steam.
I do not remember Mrs. Melsome. Perhaps you can give me further details.
Love is the law, love under will.
Yours fraternally,
666.
P.S. I shouldn't cable Germer [Karl Germer] etc till we have time to hear from Holroyd Reece. He reaches N.Y. today, and we should get a wire within a week. Postpone your forlorn hopes till say Sat. 16th. 666.
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