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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Cora Germer
Ivy Cottage, Knockholt, Kent.
Feb. 16th, 1930.
Dear Cora:
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
I am assuming that Karl [Karl Germer] will have shown you my letter to him written earlier to-day. But I feel that I owe it to you to write you independently.
I cannot tell you how shocked I have been about these revelations, and I cannot express myself too strongly about it. To make such false representations of his [Gerald Yorke's] own position, while he was asking you for the loan that he could perfectly well have put through himself, is in the last degree disgraceful. It is not as if we had been urging him to contribute. We took his word for it that he was really in the position that he said. I am really horrified at being a party, however innocent, to so iniquitous a transaction. But I think the time has now come to clear up the situation thoroughly, and make a fresh start.
To turn to pleasanter subjects. The reconstruction of the Mandrake Press seems to be going through quite all right, and we hope to have everything in perfect order by Tuesday or Wednesday, at the latest. I hope to make arrangements which will release me from the terrible situation into which Yorke has put us all, and I shall probably come over to Berlin myself to arrange for an exhibition of pictures and attend to matters of translation, etc. etc. Of course, as far as doing actual business is concerned, we have had more or less to mark time while we were getting Goldston [Edward Goldston] out of the business. He is a very stupid thief. In fact, so stupid that he did not know enough to get out without delay or fuss. As it is, he is going through it on Monday morning with one of the shrewdest business men in England. All the same, it has kept back our publishing programs.
Well, here's hoping that everything turns out all right, and that I shall be able to come and look you up in a few days time.
Love is the law, love under will.
Yours ever
AC / ir [Israel Regardie]
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