Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Israel Regardie

[Undated: circa November 1930]

Dear Scorpio

93

Thanks enormously—but I wish the cash were sent direct. I don't want Yorke [Gerald Yorke] to know any of the business of the Order at present.

There's snags about sending cash out of Germany just now. Please pay tobacco out of next funds that come in. I've written L & T to this effect.

I got into form again Friday night. All my powers returned in full force; solved an AL puzzle after 27 years! 45-46, I'll soon get 47, 48 now. So cheer up!

The one dreadful feature of the time is the too frequent obsession of Saturnus [Karl Germer]. There is really little I can do for him.

So every penny that comes this way means just so many hours or days release from the most abominable torture. Of course he's not always bad, only every so often some trifle starts him on one of his manias, and he lectures angrily about the German spirit, or the price of soap, or the wickedness of the French. The ravings are incredible: and one cannot possibly tell what may switch on the current.

Talking of lunatics, I expect Marie [Maria de Miramar] is O.K. Probably just their way of admitting that they cannot manage her temper by any ordinary disciplinary means. I couldn't do it myself! Of course, I don't admit that it is she at all. I have no scrap of evidence about the identity.

Well, I'm very much encouraged by the Thelema revival. Floreat!

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Fraternally

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