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Correspondence from
Friedrich Lekve to
Aleister Crowley
Friedrich Lekve
Hildesheim (Germany)
31st Dec. 1936
Most reverable Master Therion,
Do what
thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
I am using this last day of 1936
to thank you! Thanks for your last letter with the
enlightening explanations to my horoscope, thanks for the
immense spiritual abundance you gave to the world in your
numberless works and instructions. You can scarcely imagine,
how happy I am, that I found after many years of successless
search finally your name and your work and with them the
possibility of direct lessons in spiritual evolution by the
kind instructive help of S.[oror]
Küntzel [Martha Küntzel].
It was this year 1936, when I found the first contact with
her and on this way also with you.
What you wrote about the powerful
figure of my horoscope is encouraging me in my endeavours to
proceed on the way of the Great Work, for before becoming a
teacher I think that I have to learn still much more and
first of all I have to gather the first grades of practical
experience, which never can be compared with the greatest
extent of pure theoretical studies.
This is the reason, why my daily
work starts, as far as my time allows it, in spiritual
exercises, some of them I wish to mention hereunder:
Raise in the morning with the
pronounced resolution 93. Washing with the idea, that also
my spirit and soul is cleaned by the washing.
Eating with the idea, that
the meal is giving me resp. to my body the power and force
to fulfil the Great Work, as far as the body can help.
Mantra yoga "Akadua tuf
urbiu" on the daily 4 ways to and from my business work,
i.e. totally 40 minutes, and I mention, that the mantra is
returning in every silent moment.
Prana-Yama daily 3 times with
10 cycles of 15 sec. breathing in and 25 sec. breathing out.
Asana: 2 times daily at 20
minutes each.
Gnana-Yoga: i.e. studies in
spiritual works daily about 1 - 3 hours.
You mentioned the two planets
Neptune and Moon to be held in good order at their places;
there was some years ago a man of the name "Grosche" or
"Gregorius" [Eugen Grosche],
who told me, that this figure would be bad for splitting
magick.
But I heard later on from S. Küntzel, that Grosche and his friend Tränker [Heinrich Tränker],
whom I did not meet up to now, are brothers of the left
path, and I am glad, that I felt after some time of
acquaintance a certain uneasiness about Grosche, so that I
left him.
But this figure Moon in
conjunction with the Neptune in the Cancer seems to give
some deep sensibility esp. in dreams, and there is
especially one dream I had in 1929 which I wish to tell you
in short words:
I stood before a mountain, on
the top of which I saw an old castle, and when I saw it, I
felt remembered to the Wartburg, and I said to my female
companion—I do not know, who she was—that I wished to climb
on the top of the mount to see the castle. After this I
found me at the edge of the mount in a wood before a big
tree, and considering it I perceived, that my female
companion did not wish to accompany me and that she
disappeared without any Good-By, and I ascertained also with
some surprisal, that the tree became bigger and bigger, and
suddenly it burst and fell. Now I went on into the wood, as
I had resolved to reach the top of the mountain, but my way
was without strong own resolution, I walked on as driven by
an unvisible power, without any fixed path. Moreover I was
surprised on this way by another obscure event: around me
there shot from the earth unnumerable young trees but
already in their youth fell down and new trees came, always
falling again in their youth. I was astonished, that none of
these trees did touch me. Suddenly I had obtained the top of
the Mountain, but there was no castle but only an empty
lawn. I let my looks go around, and in this moment I felt,
that the mount under my feet would move and under my feet
the earth began to rise, quite slowly, so that after some
time under my feet a hill began to grow from the Interior of
the Mount, and I saw the fresh brown earth growing forth
more and more, and the hill on the lawn on the top of the
mount became a mount again so high, that clouds and mist
covered the feet of this new mount. After some time the
growth of this new mount of fresh earth stopped, but now
appeared some round metal cupoles (I imagined: steel) as
revolving armoured turrets, and suddenly I stood on the top
of the greatest of them, and I looked around again to see
where I was. And this wish was enough for the clouds and
mist around me to divide, and I had a splendid look into the
world, and I saw with astonishment, that the mounts, I
wished to climb at the begin of my walk, were deep deep
under me, scarcely to aperceive. And now a woman, the
neighbour of my fathers house, where I shall return probably
in some years, appeared and congratulated me, that I had
reached this high point in only 15 years.
I told you this dream, for this
dream is always with me, and sometimes I feel, that it
contains the hint of the possibilities of my present life.
With my nest letter I wish to inform you about my plans for
my work for Thelema.
Love is the law, love under will.
Yours very sincerely
Friedrich Lekve
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