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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Cora Germer
Ivy Cottage, Knockholt, Kent.
November 16th, 1929.
Dear Cora:
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
I hope you got your coat and the pictures safely. Marie [Maria de Miramar] was very pleased with your letter, but she has been quite a little sick for the last few days and has put off answering it. She wishes to give you her very best love and to say how much she misses you. However, we may all meet again pretty soon.
What a pity that you did not take the advice I gave you in Jachymov about getting rid of all those stocks when they were at a fancy price. You could have bought them again last week and put the price of quite a few ice-cream sodas in your pocket. However, I am inclined to think that after all these gamblers on margin have been squeezed out the market will recover completely and another strong bull movement begin. But if the prices go up to anything like those of last summer, I should get out because prosperity is usually a slow and tender growth, whereas calamity can always occur at a few moments notice.
I suppose I am a 'natural bear', but that is what I always feel. I have a curious instinct for finance. I sold all my Consols at 112 just in time. The weather here is getting rather trying, though we have had some beautiful days in the last week. Unfortunately my leg makes it difficult for me to walk more than a very short distance. Anything like effort starts it swelling again.
I hope that you have found a nice apartment in Berlin and that Karl [Karl Germer] has got a wonderful job.
Things seem to be going quite normally here. In about a weeks' time we ought to have some fairly definite news as to the reception of Volume One of the Hag [The Confessions of Aleister Crowley]. I am sending you a copy under separate cover by this mail.
Best love to you and Karl.
Love is the law, love under will.
Yours fraternally
666 / anl
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