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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Wilfred Talbot Smith
c/o Germer [Karl Germer]
20 Jan 31
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Yours of Jan 2 was welcome beyond words. That little lever may yet knock this old coach out of the mud. You don't know how totally paralyzed I've been for months.
Congratulations on your new treasure! I should indeed like to meet her, and wish travelling were a bit simpler.
Know thou, I seriously want to hitch up permanently with a suitable partner, Kasimira [Kasimira Bass] would have been perfect, but she turned into such a crazy fool crank once we left Paris, and she wasn't playing the straight game. I do need good temper and a reasonable income, enough to potter about without worrying. Given that, I can make the big money myself. But the live and let live spirit is essential. I wouldn't mind marriage; it might add piquancy, the pilgrimage to Cuba, and making my Nicaraguan side-kick [Maria de Miramar] walk the plank. My last escapade ("the fabulous monster" [Hanni Jaeger]) is now quite over. You may quote the gross record to intending candidates! Opera LXXX in about 100 possible days. So she need not worry about the supply of the Medicine of the Wise!
There is one advantage of the Romantic Life with the Career.
So just forward something This Side Up With Care.
I find the joint record very hard to interpret. 516's [Jane Wolfe] accursed kittenishness interjects remarks which I find obscure. But original cold-bloodedness is all wrong. What is needed is violent attraction while doing the formalities, then letting it loose as the dam breaks. The Latin Grimoire printed in "Magick" [Magick in Theory and Practice] is the best ritual. Lord! I wish we could talk it out; I'd fix you right in an hour. Atwood is no good to you folks; she's on a quite different stunt. I think v[ery] black magic.
Am sending you copies of rituals Minerval - III°. The 'Oak' thing is no special interest.
I'm having a picture show here Feb 22 will send you cuttings may be useful to arouse interest.
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F∴[raternal]ly
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Love to 516—hope to write to her specially soon.
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