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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Oliver H. Masters
140, Piccadilly, W.1.
August 26th '42 E.V.
Sir,
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
I find your letter as vile as it is impertinent and ignorant.
Lady Harris [Frieda Harris] well knew that she was exposing herself to the lewd jeers of such envious and malignant crawling creatures as yourself.
She well knew that I should never have consented to her putting herself in so invidious a position.
She accordingly took every possible precaution to prevent me from learning her intentions. In fact I was informed of the Berkeley Galleries Exhibition [of the Thoth Tarot Cards] by the "Evening Standard"—and that only after it had been open for nearly a week.
Even after that surprise, I was only advised of the further display in Conduit Street by the personal intervention of the Editor of one of our great weeklies.
Lady Harris, in order to manifest my life's work to the world, defying the brutish malice of my detractors, has not only given four years of her life to working upon my Tarot designs, but has made a gesture of sublime self-abnegation, courage and nobility which should stand an example to all men and women for all time.
Love is the law, love under will.
I am, Sir,
Yours faithfully,
Aleister Crowley.
Oliver H. Masters, Esq.
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