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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Wilfred Talbot Smith and Max Schneider
London
9 June 36
C.F. 687 [Max Schneider] and 132 [Wilfred Talbot Smith]
93
There does not seem to be much in your letters except this nonsense about Georgia [Georgia Schneider]. In all these years, the bulk of your activities seems to have been a series of intrigues with quite useless women, Trailing around on the loose. None of them has ever come to anything except Regina [Regina Kahl]. All this is a dispersion of energy, and very contrary to the principle of silence. You can never get beyond the clique stage of a Movement on these lines, because the interest is purely personal and parochial. You have got to find some point on which to focus general interest, to arouse controversy, to have meetings of indignation and protest all over the country. You have an ideal background. Look at these lunatics Roosevelt, Townsend and such! They assert insane principles and sweep the whole country.
That is only done by hoisting an impersonal flag, and refusing to be side-tracked by every wandering tart.
This is all my fault. I have never carried out the injunctions about the Book of the Law, as I should have done. I am now going to concentrate on that. We hope to get it reproduced with Comment and so as enjoined, and we think that if this is done it will open the way completely. Copies will be sent to you, and it will be up to you to raise hell.
93 93/93
Fraternally
666
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