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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Wilfred Talbot Smith
c/o Dennes and Co. 22 Chancery Lane. W.C. 2.
11 July 32
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This had better be my address until I have a more permanent headquarters. I was glad of your letter indeed. I think you ought to write regularly, as the distance is so great, even if you have not much to report. Try to make it once a fortnight, will you.
I wrote 'frivolously' not 'furiously'.
I started O.T.O. with candles in saucers in an office about 10 x 6. When you start things, ingenuity soon solves all problems as they arise. You need no children till you've got going. Trust to the beauty and the magical power of the ritual itself to interest people. Ask Jane [Jane Wolfe]—why doesn't she write any more?—how well it worked in Cefalu, only doing bits of it.
You'll soon build up if you persevere, doing it regularly; your enthusiasm will be contagious. You might get in Einstein himself on the Collects and the Anthem.
I am heartily in accord with what you say about that poor pricked bladder of the U.S.A. What I could never understand was why apparently sensitive men were fooled by the bluff. A chance for you to push your way to the top.
Love to Jane and Regina [Regina Kahl]—Good Lord! you don't seem to have any more yet at all after 5 years' work there. So get a move on.
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