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Correspondence from Frieda Harris to Aleister Crowley
[EXTRACT]
[14 November 1941]
"Being so willful you must die" but I wish you would not crash the work. Your re-action to my letter was extremely personal. Again & again I have seen you kill your own efforts in an attempt to achieve balance. Instance: You killed your 1st attempt at a friendship with a little girl by throwing a rat on her balcony in what you might have responded had she opened negotiations in this way? I think you would have been angry, you are angry when people insult you. This card again is an instance. The fact that people are such fools that they don't realize the form of that picture, does not prevent other fools from turning it into a pornographic picture. Watkins for instance, all ready at the moment to help me, will refuse. Yes it will be found to be a Tarot Card. Oh! I wish for my sake you would not do it. It seems hopeless to ask you not to degrade the Work you are put into this planet to do, by opening the gate to absurd comment. You will fail because you will not believe in the clever silly sort of person who is too clever to be bludgeoned by you into blind acquiescence. I am writing in the post office. I feel deeply about this. I am unable to withdraw the card yet for the sake of the Work in which I have laboured for 3 years I implore you to think again & not to be so obstinate, which I know is one of my faults or so lazy as to allow this publication to continue.
It is the sort of thing you have done over & over again & yet you complain that you are not in the position of authority & are persecuted. . . I am not writing to the Master but to poor tiny Aleister.
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