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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Gerald Yorke
Berlin
die
[Undated. circa mid August 1931]
C∴[are] F∴[rater]
93.
Yours 8/9/31.
You have no authority to arrange about mottos [?] etc.
You seem to think that the Order is a parlour game.
This type of thinking is your primary mistake about Life.
You are in very real danger of becoming a 'browser'. There are lots of them! This year Theosophy, next Christian Science, next Psychoanalysis, then Inner Light and then Neo-Platonism or Neo-Thomism—ad lib.
Don't spoil your appetite with kickshaws!
I think you should come to Berlin—but secretly—for the opening of the Show on Oct 11.
And be at my birthday party.
You are totally wrong about the virtue of "keeping on working". Your grade does matter: that is why we have grades—as a moment's thought would assure any sensible person.
One does not trust a man with Cabinet Secrets just because he has always been interested in Politics.
There are Guardians; and every gate will be locked against you unless you have the keys. Do you really think that I am such a fool as to have entrusted any matters of real importance to the first comer? Or, did I do so, could he understand?
I do hate to think of you developing into a Pink-Tea occultist, as you are doing. The 10th Aethyr is not a nice place!
You need Discipline more than any man (of any promise) that I ever knew. I daily bless my stars that I had absolute brutes like Eckenstein [Oscar Eckenstein] and Ananda Metteya [Allan Bennett] to bully me, and the sense to heed their warnings.
There is "no hope"—is Always the coward's [illegible]. There was "no hope" of routing the Spanish Armada, was there?
Will talk to you about finance etc
when you get here. In the mean time, do something for
I have referred to the Magical Link—this is the most important sentence (for the Work) in this letter—Am working against frightful odds, but all will be well again if you make good.
In haste.
93 93/93
Fraternally.
666.
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