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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Karl Germer
c/o Dennes and Co Clifford's Inn London E.C.4.
Answer to yours of Nov 16 From Camp de Garo: previous letter not To hand
Carissime Frater,
93.
I am overwhelmed with joy to hear that you are alive and well. I have had death in my heart since May 10. I kept on cabling you as long as Brussels was on the wire. I made sure that the Gestapo had caught and murdered you. Naturally, I have been blaming myself! It made me very ill all summer; I came to Torquay for the winter, and after a month fell very sick indeed—the doctors and nurses kind of sick—for some six weeks. Since hearing from you I have been quite a new man; and, though my heart is definitely not too good, and I have a ghastly time ahead with the dentist, news of you give me the courage to go on.
The Tarot is finished, though F. H. [Frieda Harris] is doing two or three over again. Also my book [The Book of Thoth] to go with them. Mike the Kike swore he had a backer to produce them it needs some £1500 actual cost. Probably he was lying, as usual.
When we get them out, I want to lecture in U.S.A.—I hope you are there by now! I have written several names and addresses in my covering letter to Cora [Cora Germer], and am enclosing with the Word of Spring [Word of the Equinox], instructions to welcome you and help you in every way. It is not much use going into more detail until I hear that you have received this.
With all deep love,
93 93/93.
Fraternally 666.
I am just moving once more; will let you know when I get settled. Meanwhile c/o Dennes seems safest.
A.C.
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