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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Gerald Yorke
Hotel Metropole, Bruxelles, Belgique
May 31st, 1929
Care Frater:
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
I received a cable from Germer [Karl Germer] on the 21st of May saying "Mailing York [Gerald Yorke] 130 tomorrow." This money ought to have come by the Mauretania sailing May 22nd, and I have received letters here on the morning of May 30th by that mail.
You said that you would cable through the money at once, and I can only suppose that you are away or ill. I am extremely sorry to bother you about this, but we are down to nothing at all. The problem even of eating has become excessively acute. I want also to be able to cable Germer at once with regard to the $1,000 without which it is quite impossible to do anything but slowly drift into disaster. If this is allowed to happen, it simply means God knows how much extra expense picking up the pieces. One has to use all sorts of costly expedients to raise small quantities of ready money.
It is obviously utterly impossible to do anything in Brussels, where I am not known. It was different in Paris, where I had plenty of friends to whom I could apply for small loans to carry on.
Even if Germer's $130 does arrive at once, it will be practically exhausted by, say, Tuesday.
I am very perturbed about the general mess of the invoice, and I hope that you will be able to arrange to settle the matter with Lecram [Press].
I have just called up your office this morning on the chance of finding you there.
De M. [Maria de Miramar] seems a little better and I hope a few days complete rest will save the necessity of an operation. But you will readily understand that the financial situation which cannot be possibly concealed from her is not conducive to her recovery.
Love is the law, love under will.
Yours fraternally
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