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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Walter Duranty
Ivy Cottage, Knockholt, Kent.
Feb. 11th, 1930.
Dear Wally:
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Thanks so much for your letter. I have delayed answering it till now because I wanted to check up with one or two things here.
I am very glad indeed of what you tell me especially about the five day week. We are all rather rejoicing about the sacrilegious outrages, and only hope it is true. We wish something could be done to stomp out the Christians here. They are becoming a perfect nuisance. For instance, Father Ronald Knox had the nerve to bluff the Oxford University Poetry Society into cancelling my lecture on the ground that the proctors would make trouble if they did not. I exposed the whole thing, and now Knox is getting it in the neck from the Varsity, for the proctors will not hold him guiltless who taketh their name in vain.
But I should like very much to have another look at Russia. It seems to me that the old stories about eyewash must be completely false as apparently the Soviets are trying to run Russia as a tourist country. It would really be a very good thing if a large number of independent people travelled round the country on their own. But at present the general impression is that anyone would be liable to be thrown into prison and tortured for any or no reason as soon as he crossed the frontier. I think it is up to the Soviets to make it impossible for the Mail to publish the rubbish it does, and this seems to me the way to do it.
I am hoping to get my big business through this week, and if so I might take a little holiday in your direction.
Love is the law, love under will.
Yours ever,
AC / ir [Israel Regardie]
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