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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Karl Germer
[EXTRACT]
[5 October 1938]
I do not think it is peace at all, and I do not see the slightest reason for altering my view on Hitler. I do not recall any historical event which would justify us in supporting that Hitler's work would be in any way permanent. My view is that he is driven from one desperate adventure to another by the necessity of continually demonstrating to the un-thinking section of the German people, that he is a great and successful man.
Of course, I have always considered him a prophet in the Old Testament sense of the word, a more or less inspired madman who brings about the things that he prophecies, or desires, by exciting mass hysteria. These tactics are successful in these latter days of education, which has robbed men of their power to think for themselves. The Independence of the Press which was in the early days a safe-guard, is now completely destroyed, and sober opinion has hardly any chance to express itself at all.
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