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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Gerald Yorke
57 Petersham Road, Richmond.
14 August 1939
Care Frater
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
I don't know if you got my last letter; I suppose you are in Scotland. I want to know whether you can help to finish the Tarot book [The Book of Thoth] as soon as possible, because my plans depend very much on it. These plans have been considerably advanced by the death of Spencer Lewis in California. We shall now have no intelligent opposition to taking possession of the organisation; they cannot carry on because there is no doctrine; all he did was to train his family and friends in the technical details of the swindle, and therefore there is no banner for them to raise.
Louis Wilkinson is going to America on the 3rd September and will take the matter up with Kramer, Mencken and Gertz [Elmer Gertz]. I am also writing to ginger up Smith [Wilfred Talbot Smith] and Schneider [Max Schneider]. Please let me know at once what time you expect to be back in London, and whether you feel equal to collaborating with me in the final putting together of my material on the Tarot [The Book of Thoth]. It is likely to make from 80,000 to 100,000 words and I think will need about a fortnight's work to lick into final shape.
Love is the law, love under will.
Yours fraternally.
666
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