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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Gerald Yorke
Hotel Metropole, Bruxelles, Belgique
April 19th, 1929
Care Frater:
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Thanks for your letter of the 17th. The letter to Sir Guy Gaunt seems all right. I think Alfred C. Crowley and Abraham C. Crowley are the only possible people. The Irish Crowley have nothing to do with us. We have been in England since Bosworth.
You might get further information by telephoning the Society of Friends. I noticed that there seems to be no Crowleys left on Alton Hants. I suppose all the male line has died out. But there will be Curtises and others. You ought to be able to find out at your own office who are the people that brew the beer.
I think it would be a mistake to mail my letter to whoever you decide to see. I should simply ask for an interview on an important matter, and then present the letter personally explaining the whole circumstances.
"La Nation Belge" has given us this morning an extremely fair article. I am going to get in touch with some English journalists in Bruxelles and give you a definite statement about the war. Regardie [Israel Regardie] prepared a very clever précis of The Last Straw.
Regardie says that he never received any letter from you for me at Ostend. Noble Hall (not Stanley Hall) is at Le Chambre de Commerce Internationale, 38 Rue Cours Albert Premier. Mrs. Eastlake (Soror Fidelis) is at Günsterberg allée 60, Frankfort A/M.
Paris-Midi seems to be taking up this business very seriously, and wants a whole series of articles. There was one in the issue of the 18th, but I have not been able to get a spare copy.
The Police are now trying to pretend that it is merely a question of my morals. Perhaps they thought is suspicious when Regardie came to live in the flat. Both he and de Miramar [Maria de Miramar] got the impression that you had it in your mind at Tilbury that Regardie's illness was due to my personal intervention. I can only assure you that it is enough to make a cat laugh. You ought to know well enough from what I have told you again and again, as well as from what I have openly published in "Magick" [Magick in Theory and Practice] that I regard congenital homosexuality as a sign of grave defects of the nervous system.
It is simply ridiculous that one cannot ask a policeman the way without the world thinking one wants to bugger him.
I am extremely busy preparing all sorts of defenses on all sorts of points.
I shall, expect you over here next week-end, that is Saturday morning, April 27th. I may want you for 'best man'!
On the whole I think things are going extremely well in every way.
With regard to the money question, as soon as I have put through the urgent things that I have to do in Brussels, I am probably going to stay with some Englishman, a friend of Charlie Rainbow, the celebrated barman, who has a converted country house with a trout stream, is an excellent cook, and will do us for 50 Belgian francs a day, each.
Love is the law, love under will.
Yours fraternally
666.
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