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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Karl Germer
Ivy Cottage, Knockholt, Kent.
November 29th, 1929.
Care Frater Pertinax [Karl Germer]:
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
I was very much relieved to get your letter this morning. As a matter of fact, the delay caused the greatest disasters. It messed up everything at Georgian House and made things very awkward down here. It also meant a certain amount of unnecessary expense and what is worse put upon us the obligation of paying certain accounts in full, which otherwise could have been postponed for months by the payment of a small sum on account.
On the other hand, I did some exceedingly good work. I went down to Oxford on Saturday and met several people who are extremely interested, and of first class material for the Great Work. One of them, moreover is, I think, a man of substance.
As you will remember, I always said that we needed £10,000 to put over this business properly. We have had altogether about £3,000, and got quite a long way. If we could have had that amount at once, and in a lump sum, we could have gone very much further at not more than half the expense. I think I now see my way to getting the remaining £7,000. I propose to ask this Oxford man and also my old friend Guy Knowles to put a coupe of thousand each into the business if you can weigh in with a similar amount yourself.
One of the great advantages of this is that it would free me from these constant anxieties and the necessities of abandoning my work and postponing it, and altering arrangements, and so on, as I have been having to do all this time. One of the most important things, perhaps the most important, is that I should be meeting people of all kinds in London—disgusting as the idea is to me,—in order to show them the kind of person I really am, and thus breaking down the boycott.
This is also being done in two other ways. Firstly, we are in close touch with a man who is intimate with Lord Beaverbrook, and we are trying to get him to approach this man to get him to make amends for the wrong tat was caused in his newspapers.
The other thing is that last week I had a long conference with a man named Wilson, who is the manager of Bumpus, the big booksellers in Oxford Street, and who is also a person of very wide influence in the whole bookselling business. We are going to get out a pamphlet or some small book quoting some of the worst stories about me and confuting them, appealing to the English sense of fairplay. We shall try to get Wilson to prefix a word of introduction.
I wish you would get Birven [Henri Birven] to write at once the name of the man from whom Meyrink heard this nonsense. Yorke [Gerald Yorke] and I could then tackle him personally and put the fear of God into him.
I am glad to hear you are settled in your new place and I hope that Cora [Cora Eaton] will be very happy there.
When do you start on your travels. I should like an idea of dates, so that I may not be writing to empty space, in case of emergency.
Do attend to this Birven business and insist upon getting that name. It may be the keystone of the whole arch.
Love is the law, love under will.
Yours fraternally,
666 / anl [Israel Regardie]
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