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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Jane Wolfe
c/o Dennes & Co. Clifford's Inn London E.C.4.
Feb 12 [1941]
Dear Estai,
93.
So glad to hear from you! Such a clear intelligible letter, too; your first!
I've been ill a whole lot—The old bronchitis at me again. And I don't know where I'll be in a month or two—not that I'm alone in that!—so I give you the London address till things settle down, if ever they do!
About the Taro [The Book of Thoth], we ought to have started printing etc this month but the backer seems to have backed out, for the moment. It's very hard to make plans at all, with everybody screaming about invasion. Our whole strategy seems to be directed towards goading the Huns into trying it.
My German crowd have been pestering me the last 5 years about Liber AL and Hitler. They claim he has got it, or been inspired on the same lines and is working it out, all wrong of course, but anyhow half of it.
Karl [Karl Germer], who has no doubt been murdered or worse, urged me in one of his last letters to read Raushning "Hitler Speaks". Yes, it is astonishing how closely his intimate thoughts run on the same rails.
I don't know where Liber 418 [The Vision and the Voice] commentary is at the moment—where is anything? And has it been [illegible] or not? The difficulties of communication are great—and your Sanctuary isn't doing much to help things along, is it?
I am very glad to hear about your talks and making everybody write papers. Quite the right idea.
Somebody sent me Seabrook's [William Seabrook] book—I suppose the censor held it up.
I would like a copy of that diary. Delighted to hear about Jan New: encourage her all you can—Sooner or later we shall break through into younger minds. Of course, I have never understood how in nearly 20 years your group has not caught on. I thought everything grew rank in California. Can you tell me why? I've been inclined to think that W.T.S. [Wilfred Talbot Smith] somehow puts people off—or is it Regina's [Regina Kahl] manner? Perhaps it is the Masters after all—cooking slowly to get the best effect.
Best of love to you all. I should appreciate more frequent letters.
Yours fraternally,
666.
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