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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Karl Germer
Ivy Cottage, Knockholt, Kent.
Jan. 23d, 1930.
Care Frater:
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Thanks for your note. Your promptitude saved the situation beautifully.
Major Thynne [Major Robert Thynne], spelt as above, is a very fine man. But that low thief Goldston [Edward Goldston] is trying to cheat him. It may come to a criminal prosecution yet.
Frightfully busy, especially as I have to prepare a lecture [on Gilles de Rais] which I am to give at Oxford on the 3d of next month.
Your note of Jan. 16th. I am waiting to get arrangements with Thynne through. I might be able to come personally to Berlin.
I will look into this question of the misunderstanding. I did not comment upon the Marie [Maria de Miramar] incident for the simple reason that I was taking no notice of anything of the sort. I was not aware, in fact, that there was any. I taught Marie the phrase simply as a joke, hoping that she would use it on any polite stranger who offered her a match.
I met an old friend Hope Johnston, who is now selling old masters to Americans, and spends a lot of his time there. He has found a perfect description of them—negres Manqués.
Love is the law, love under will.
Yours fraternally,
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