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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Gerald Yorke
Ivy Cottage, Knockout, Kent
Dec. 11th, 1929.
Care Frater:
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
I forgot to ask you last night about your tea-party with Lady Emily Lutyeins. Please let me know if anything of importance transpired.
I wish you could have been a little more precise about the chessmen. These pointless delays about absolutely simple matters are a nuisance. I am reminded of the Geomancy box.[1] We ought to have known that Gabriel Dee would try to strangle any competition. My plan was to have a proper model made and this offered to de la Rue. Please recover the box from her, and arrange for this to be done without delay. I don't want to have anything to do with her myself unless in case of serious necessity. But please arrange for the chessmen to be made without a moment's delay. We will send the design direct to the model-maker if you will let us know his name and address, advising him yourself of what we want.
Love is the law, love under will.
Yours fraternally
666.
P.S. Have you yet received the Kalpaka Magazine? We may want this to found an Indian campaign on.
1—[This refers to a Geomancy Box he was trying to market. The geomancy box was first called The Finger of Fate. The needle as of a compass in the centre of a circle. You approach your forefinger nearly to it until your body heat causes the needle to swing round. Withdraw finger and the needle stops, pointing to a number. You look up the number in the pamphlet and the word is your answer. It failed: the delicate balance broke down when the box was moved about—G.J. Yorke.]
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