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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Louis Umfreville Wilkinson
[On notepaper of Sesame Imperial and Pioneer Club, 49 Grosvenor Street, N.W.1.]
Louis Wilkinson Grove Heart Ripley Surrey
London W.1.
10 June 1942
Dear Louis
I was right; I had given the Swiss 10/- too much. The honest bloke returned it to-day.
“Et mon esprit, toujours du vertige hauté, (He started with Pascal’s “Gouffre”) Jalouse du héant l’insensibilité —Ah! ne jamais sortir des Nombres et des Êtres!
I make it: “Mind, haunted by vertigo’s dizzy stress Aches for the apathy of Nothingness. —Ah! never Number see or Being know the light!”
This last line is X.O.P. n 1
The shame-making truth is that I’m not at all sure of the meaning, either of my own line or His!
Is there perhaps an allusion to Symbols in Pascal’s humbug—misosophy? (Good word, that: not in my dic.[ionary], though it’s a common object of the seashore!) Does he want to get out of them, or is he afraid so to do? Or is he?
My line, at the best, is clumsy & obscure. Will you please enlighten my darkness? We beseech thee Good Lord!
(The other two seem O.K. to me.)
See you [symbol for day] 12.45 at usual place? But if my ’bus comes along & H. & B. & Galata are good—Hooray!
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