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Correspondence from N. J. N. Foreman to Aleister Crowley
142 Fletching Road, E. 5.
9/1/30 [9 January 1930]
Dear Beast,
Thanks for your letter of 6th January.
Shades of Adam Weishaupt! Please let me explain.
Do you really think I have been provided with sufficient motive to go to the lengths to which you refer? Damn it all, there is no reason why I should accept the position that I cannot rely on help in any circumstances. What the hell inducement have I, from a worldly point of view, dear brother in the Lord Jesus, to get in the cart for a lousy Government that doesn't even brass up.
However, that is beside the point. If it is possible to envisage calling upon M. it is possible to call upon Kylsant. I do not blame myself for the breakdown. No one could have foreseen that M. would act the fool. The fact remains that he has so acted. Therefore he must be overcome and until this is done I must of necessity refrain from doing a damn thing. I look on this as a Magical Work. For their purposes, M. is a part of my Khu and an obstacle to be overcome. This being so, I am, I think, entitled to ask assistances—having regard to the way in which the business started.
I am sorry that you didn't turn up today and sincerely trust that you are not still unwell. It is essential to get you out of Knockholt evidently.
Re S.R.S.M.[?]. I will make further enquiries but fear that he has evaded the question and that to write him further will only serve to put him on his guard. However, we shall see.
Hoping to see you soon.
Yours,
N. J. N. Foreman
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