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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Gerald Yorke
Hotel Metropole, Bruxelles, Belgique
April 20th, 1929
Care Frater:
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Your letter via Regardie [Israel Regardie] has just arrived.
It is mostly out of date. I have written to you about Lecram [Press] and Cope [Stuart R. Cope], and by this time you may have heard direct.
What I should like to know is whether any attempt is being made to hold up copies going into England.
I am a little doubtful as to whether Gaunt [Sir Guy Gaunt] will reply to your letter. I think the obligation of professional secrecy may prevent him. I cannot immediately lay my hands on his letters to me. But the tenor of the correspondence was this. I pointed out to him that people like Viereck [George Sylvester Viereck] and Münsterburg were the real danger as intellectuals capable of turning American opinion against us. He replied very nicely though in a rather offhand way, in which he said that he only knew of Viereck as "one of the lesser jackals around Von Papen." It is of course the characteristic blindness of people in high official positions to think that nobody matters outside their own tiny circles.
I quite agree with your view about the expulsion. We have got more publicity already than we could have got for $10,000.00, and there is lots more to come. I enclose you a telegram from Paris-Midi.
I enclose you also a letter from Germer [Karl Germer]. I think you should see Cope and sell him the book rights. Don't be afraid to open your mouth wide. This thing is going to make a much bigger row than you suppose even at this day.
About cash, it would certainly be useful to have another $1,000 dollars, say, at the last week in May. We have to spend money very freely, not only in keeping up a good appearance, but in getting documents photographed and various other unexpected things. I should like to import Aumont [Gerard Aumont], too.
I propose preparing a considerable bombshell for the Embassies. They have made the grossest blunders in dealing with the matter throughout. These people start with the fixed idea that they are Almighty God, and so they play bad chess.
The lawyer says that I should wait for a few weeks before applying to the French consulate for leave to return and to start trouble.
It would be quite absurd for me to come to England until it is possible to bring my staff with me.
Love is the law, love under will.
Yours fraternally
666.
I don't want to be "a man with a grievance". I hate a man with a grievance! I'm a man fighting for an elementary principal of justice—often a worse bore!
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