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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to The Mandrake Press
ALEISTER CROWLEY 89 Park Mansions Knightsbridge, SW
July 19th 1 9 3 0.
41 Museum Street, London, W. C. 1.
Dear Sirs:
Your esteemed favour of the 18th has been received with holy joy. Neither Marcus Aurelius, Pascal, Madame de Sevigne, nor Mrs. Boddam-Whettam has ever produced such a letter.
It appears from the hieroglyphics at the end that you have caused a disciple of my own to take dictation of a letter of yours; and it is impossible (as you must surely realize)) that an holy guru cannot allow himself to be criticized by one of his disciples in a personal way without sacking that disciple and having every justification in doing so. In this instance, however, I happen to know the rather abnormal, although possible not criminal, relations existing between your good selves and this disciple, and therefore I am not taking further action. But I feel very strongly that if you personally have any objection to make to any statement or action done by me, you should say so direct to me and not allow one of my disciples to do so. I feel sure that when you dictated this letter you could not have realized these two points:—
1. That the action is contrary to all Holy Discipline, and therefore it was not fair of you to ask one of my disciples to write this letter, and
2. That it certainly would have been more honest to have written to the Bishop of Birmingham personally about the matter, instead of doing so in such a way as to get my disciple into trouble.
It has further occurred to me that your letter is, in any case, totally absurd—a typical example of the stupid things that Yorke [Gerald Yorke] always does. It seems to me that Regardie [Israel Regardie] was absolutely correct in informing his employer that a complaint had been made against him be me. What else could he have done without gross dereliction of his duties?
Yours faithfully,
The Beast 666.
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