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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Gerald Yorke
55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris, VII
March 8th, 1929
Care Frater:
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Thank you for your cheerful letter of the 6th. I wish you had mentioned the name, address, and telephone number of the man in Paris. He would be pretty useful at the present moment.
The Ryerson [Albert W. Ryerson] scandal does not really concern me at all. I merely went to Detroit to insist upon the payment of certain bills that Ryerson had given me with regard to Equinox Volume 3, No. 1.
The woman who sickens you should not do so. She is a Star. When I first met Jane Wolfe she believed in Woodrow Wilson, the left half of her brain and her gall bladder. I am here to knock common sense into these people. Your conscience has to work in more than one way.
What you say about the Trust Agreement seems all right. I am probably going to Monte Carlo tomorrow—but not to play at the Casino.
I cannot bother about the £200 at the present. I seem to be rather busy.
I telegraphed you this morning in the following terms:
"Sudden most serious development attack. Cross to-night if humanly possible."
What happened is that we were all summoned to the Prefecture of Police last Tuesday. I pointed out that I was ill, and would he kindly put it off until Friday. As I am still in bed, de Miramar [Maria de Miramar] and Regardie [Israel Regardie] went down alone. They were furnished with slips of paper expelling them from France within 24 hours, and my own is expected to come this afternoon. I have immediately got hold of all the lawyers, consuls and such people, and the issue is still in doubt.
The only indication that we have at all, is a unguarded statement by some detective to the effect that "we know what you are doing." As this is complete bunk, we are rather in the dark. But you will obviously see that if these people carry out their plot, it means complete ruin of every kind to everybody concerned. If you are still in London I think you should get hold of some really important people, and have them insist on an investigation. As I have told you about a million times, what we want is a show-down. And there ought to be some means of affording one. I give it to you on my honour that we have been doing nothing in the least which is contrary to the law.
If we don't get out of France tomorrow, we go to prison; and we much prefer to do this because sooner or later they will have to give some reason for putting us in prison, and when that happens we can argue about it.
It is a beautifully fine day and I hope you are having equally good weather in England.
Love is the law, love under will.
Yours fraternally,
666.
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