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Correspondence from Wilfred Talbot Smith to Aleister Crowley
23 Feb 36
Care Frater 666
Your letter of February 11th pleased. We are trying to swing Walker [Wayne Walker] into line, but he can't be railroaded. Five of us, Jane [Jane Wolfe], Regina [Regina Kahl], Max [Max Schneider], Jacobi [Oliver Jacobi] and I drove down to Long beach, 30 miles, to one of his initiation ceremonies. He had invited us. . . . He has evidently taken a fancy to Regina, and with her five years of drilling she will take the matter seriously. We have to wait his move. After an affectionate and complementary remark he said he would get in touch with her in two or three days. The dear girl has just had a bitter disappointment, She thought she was enceinte, but it evidently is only irregularity due to change. I must say her attitude towards the anticipated event was broad and fine.
I have turned over the Sunday evenings after Mass [Gnostic Mass] to Max and Jacobi. . . . Likewise I am letting them put on the next Minerval, Jacobi as Saladin, Max as Emir and Mary Green as Wazir. . . . I think it will be better for me to act as director. Besides I was tired of trying to do it all myself. . . .
Just recently I omitted the mandate "Sentimentality, sexual and spiritual, must be sternly suppressed". The repercussion was almost instantaneous, and I have to build up again. The new partner has decided promise.
93 93/93
Fraternally.
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