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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Wilfred Talbot Smith
[circa June 1935]
C∴F∴
93.
Your letter re Russell [C. F. Russell] etc.
1. See Magick [Magick in Theory and Practice] p 240. (One Star in Sight should be printed and issued as widely as possible). Russell has clearly been obtaining money under false pretences. He was expelled many years ago, and has no right even to speak for the A∴A∴
You must get those who have paid money to go at once to the District Attorney, and complain. This applies to any person who has taken for degrees to the A∴A∴
Get your Lawyer to read One Star in Sight, and let him handle the whole matter.
But act promptly!
I do not think that I can come to Los A[ngeles] until my affairs in England are thoroughly cleared up. I could not get a visa—at least, I doubt it. It might help me if I were wanted as a witness in a big prosecution of Russell and Co.
In any case money is needed over here—and a whole lot of it.
It is quite legitimate to ask for funds to support a cause; (but of course) no "magical" reward may be promised. You may say, though, that I personally will repay just as soon as my triumph over iniquity makes it easy for me to earn large sums from newspapers and so on.
Incidentally, you might get a big paper to finance the whole business.
93 93/93
F∴[raternal]ly
666
P.S. Get hold of Dorothy Olsen. Surely she cannot be an accomplice in the theft of the Chicago stock—which, I gather, must have been the basis of the Russell frauds. Ask lawyer what to do. She wrote last Fall, asking for my address. I replied by return, and have heard nothing further.
Don't know Attanzio.
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