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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Karl Germer
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[16 September 1929]
I agree with all you say about Birven [Henri Birven], but he must be handles very firmly. Why be bluffed by "facts and knowledge?" Their possession only shows how much time the man has wasted. But—I am not open to attack in public. You can't get a responsible paper to print a word against me. Do make him see that this is so. (I quite agree about Martha Küntzel's translations [of Crowley's works], on what you say. Let Birven take me as a serious scholar; that is all.)
My Confessions [The Confessions of Aleister Crowley] will finally quash all talk about me. But I want to get the details of the Paris blackmailers.
To me he [Norman Mudd] is just a religious maniac; it was he that said he was a traitor, appointed by the Gods to play Judas Iscariot to my Jesus! I never supposed Birven would think I "broke" with Mudd; he was not an equal. It would waste my time to explain my every action. A.C. doesn't matter at all, really; but A.C. must be upheld for the sake of the imbecile brethren.
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