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Correspondence from Wilfred Talbot Smith to Aleister Crowley
3 July 33
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Fully expect to see you here about Oct 9, three days before your birthday, and hope it will be for longer than two months. . . . One inquiry regarding the fare gives the information as: 90 dollars single class boat to N.Y. and 95 dollars second class via Panama to L.A. We will look further into it. . . .
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Fraternally.
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The following is a dream that a friend had who has quite an interest in me personally. I made enquiries from him and this is not the result of a good screwing. What do you think of it, if anything?
"On leaving the office asked Thompson to take a journey for me to procure a word or message as I had matters which prevented my going. He demurred on account of not wishing to be involved in any of my mystic or occult interests. Persuasion and pointing out that he would be in no wise involved resulted in his going. Impression was of journeying inwards either to the earth or himself, through a great darkness. Lighter shadows impressed him as being oppositions, which stayed him not at all, but the thought rose, "It is lucky I am going instead of Smith as the opposition would be real to him. Arriving at a great city, peopled and lighted, his course down a broad street led him to a Palace or Temple. Here he was met by two lights, Orange and Green (the green on the right). Entering he travelled through many passages to what he was understood to be the throne room. No throne was visible, but a vast veil of unusual but elaborate design. A dais was before it and the Orange and Green lights focused across in front of the veil. Each ray of the lights reflected in its self the whole interior scene on and on ad infinitum. The walls, pillars etc were vibrant with an intense force, intensified in the veil, which shimmered with it. He stepped onto the dais and was impressed with the idea that it was unusual and audacious. He gave some kind of sign and announced the object of his presence, calling me by some name, other than he knows me by. This message was received to deliver to me: "When he uses the Eye of Ra, he will gain the Eye of ? (The word he could not grasp, but recollects it had several syllables, was of an ancient language. He visualised it as of Siamese, Burmese, Easter Isle, or Indio (sic) China origin). The word was the name of a god, but, he was impressed that it meant or comprised the ideas of Wisdom, Articulation and Demonstrability".
Note. The only excuse for his having the dream that I can think of is the showing to him of a ring made for me by Max [Max Schneider] some two months ago; a cartouche of the Eye of Ra that I have had about twelve years. Max set it in the disk of the Sun, three points of the triangle showing, in red enamel, as the rays of the Sun are in orange. The shank is formed of two lotuses, and the bezel beneath in blue enamel with the initials of my two mottoes on either side.
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