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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Karl Germer
Ivy Cottage, Knockholt, Kent.
Feb. 19th, 1930.
Care Frater:
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Thanks for your letter of the 17th with enclosure from Cora [Cora Germer] to Yorke [Gerald Yorke]. I think her letter is very good indeed. I must say, though, that she might have dropped me a couple of lines to set my mind at rest, as I am frightfully ashamed of myself for being mixed up in this. I am sure she understands that I was never any party to deception. Not that I believed Yorke's statement. Even Marie [Maria de Miramar] was quite sure that he was playing a double game. I am seeing him today at lunch and will rub it in.
It is frightfully decent of you to write as you do in your last paragraph. In point of fact, things have been terrible down at the cottage. There has been something very much like a shortage of food; all credit is gone, and everything is as bad as it well can be. I am in urgent need of medical treatment, and have had to postpone that, and damn the consequences. On top of this, the Haymarket Stores have started legal action against us for about £30. I am hoping to square all these matters in the course of the day with the new Mandrake [Mandrake Press] syndicate. But in case I do not succeed, it will be just as well to have at least a small sum to carry on from day to day through the catastrophe.
I have made it a point of honour not to write to you abut this in view of the Yorke development. Goldston [Edward Goldston] swindled us out of £60 on accounts. I may have to sue him and should probably want you as a witness. I think the much best plan will be if I come to Berlin for a few days. Reply to me at Oddenino's Hotel, Regent Street, W. 1. If you can enclose £50, please do so, but not via Yorke. A banker's draft will be the best way.
The general situation, apart from this, appears to be very good. The new company has apparently got £12,000 and the preference shares will be definitely secured on real estate, or so they tell me. The new man says quite clearly that Crowley is the greatest [?] firm, and is prepared to spend money on breaking the boycott and advertising me generally. I should not be surprised if we were all swimming in money in a very short time.
Marie joins me in sending love to you and Cora. She is much better, though naturally she has been terribly tried by the discomfort of the cottage and the complete absence of all distraction. But she has done wonderful work. If I can come to Berlin, I shall bring a couple of her pictures as well as my own. Her new work is really quite remarkable. My own has gone temporarily fut. There is a dearth of painting materials, and I have not felt like working at all. I have been far too much worried by the misbehaviour of Yorke.
Love is the law, love under will.
Yours fraternally,
666 / anl [Israel Regardie]
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