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Correspondence from Wilfred Talbot Smith to Aleister Crowley
18 May 36
Care Frater
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It is some time since I have written to you, but there has been nothing much to report, and I have been frightfully tired besides.
Max [Max Schneider] I understand has written you the little flare-up over his attention to G Haitz: my throwing of the young lady into his lap seems to have been a doubtful kindness. . . .
Things move slowly. . . . There is a slight improvement in the number of people who attend [the Gnostic Mass] Sundays. We put through another two First Degree last Friday, and another is to go through next Friday.
. . . Paul Case, of old time Golden Dawn, was here for the first time last night. I mentioned him to you a long time ago as the fellow who had the Equinox and other works which he used for his source of supply for lecturing and classes. . . . I think he is all right so far as he goes. He had apparently started some organization of his own in Pasadena.
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Fraternally.
P.S. Just as some time ago I got some slight realizations and experience of the free-flowing of the will, so still more recently I got a conception of the withdrawal of Smith from the picture and letting the Self (shall I call it?) come through. I think there is a knack to it in both cases, but the devil is to hit if off again, and the conception of it gets dim in the meantime. It is clear that one would be a better piece of machinery if the personal drive of the will and the ego Smith were eliminated, but how to get the trick permanently operating?
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