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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Guy Knowles
Ivy Cottage, Knockholt, Kent.
Dec. 19th, 1929.
Dear G[uy] K[nowles].
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Your apprehension does as much credit to your head as your writing to me on the subject does to your heart.
Young wants me examined by all the witch-doctors he can think of, from my hair down to my toe-nails. And this is going to be a frightful bother. As a matter of fact, I believe the real trouble is getting poisoned down here, which is the only alternative to freezing. At least, I remember rather similar symptoms one time in Sicily, when we had to have closed windows and a brazier. However, we shall see what we shall see, if we live to see it.
I am quite cheerful, and I think I have solved the Lause problem. I think I must be in a hypnotized state by Guillarmod's [Jules Jacot-Guillarmod] insistence that the objects in the seams of my clothes were lice. I remember objecting that I could not find any living animals, and had no actual bites, though my skin was very irritable. After what you say, what I took for knits may very likely have been shreds of epidermis.
Stephenson [P.R. Stephensen] has your slides and book carefully locked up in his office in London, and does not want to tell his partner to get them out and send them to you in case of error or damage. He is going to London on Monday morning and will see that you get them immediately.
About the Great Pyramid, I think it must be a question of near. We are accustomed to say that A is as near to B as one end of a metre rod is to the other. Modern mathematics, I think, objects to this as it involves a conception of the universe as static. There is really no such thing as a distance. There are two bodies constantly approaching each other, according to the law of inverse squares, so far as they are not prevented from doing so in the illusionary phenomenal world. But as one may be moving at a much higher velocity than the other, the rate of approach will not be the same, and therefore one will be nearer to the other than the other to it. Of course this involves upsetting all our ideas, but that is just what modern mathematics wants to do.
This may not be the conception at all. I have not read anything on the subject, but it is the nearest I can get to it by the unaided light of nature.
I hope you got MOONCHILD, and are duly edified.
Love is the law, love under will.
Yours ever,
AC / ir [Israel Regardie]
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