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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Max Schneider
23 Jan 36
Care Frater, 687
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
I am sending this through 132 [Wilfred Talbot Smith] because, unless you two can work together I am not going to work with either of you. The fact of your qualities being so different is the very reason why your combination should be so invaluable.
I think you ought to harpoon Walker [Reverend Wayne Walker] without delay. Go and tackle his beastly secretaries and people. Give my warmest greetings to Irene Love and tell her that I will show her what love means. Make her tackle Walker properly. Put the facts before him and get him to assist us in corralling the AMORC. She must cable him, she must call him up on long distance, she must fly to him, she must perform the IX degree to bring him back. But he has got to help us to put a pinch on Rosicrucian Park, which we shall turn into a Country Club, so as to be able to live in nice little tents in the desert and look at our noses. Less enthusiastically, Wayne Walker must be made to see that this is the great opportunity of his life to pick up the crop of pears sown by Lewis [H. Spencer Lewis] and Burbank them into the high grade wheat of the O.T.O.
Yours of Jan 5th. I can only repeat my instructions about W.W. [Wayne Walker]. 132 has got to help you with this, because he is the official bloke with the Charters and Letters and Photographs and all that bunk.
Your final remark is not unexpected. Lewis is merely the last of a very long series of men who have tried to play monkey tricks with the Great Order. He is merely the last to have got it in the neck in consequence. I cannot approve of the following suggestions, but anyone with any sense would pick it up vigorously, and after all I am not sure that I disapprove so strongly. It should be salutary for the world to understand that the Masters never fail to avenge insolence and treachery. You might prepare a list of those who have attacked the Order, the details of what happened to them, and make a newspaper story.
I can supply one item: Norman Mudd, an enthusiastic disciple, got the idea that he was destined to be the Judas of the movement. He was found in the sea off Guernsey, fixed in a vertical position, with a rubber tube tightly twisted round his neck. Smith and Jane [Jane Wolfe] ought to be able to quote quite a number of others from the De Wend Fenton and Bottomley [Horatio Bottomley] upwards.
Love is the law, love under will.
Yours fraternally.
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