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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Obtain Reactions to Liber OZ
12 Oct 1942.
Valley of the Thames.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
I do not wish to issue the following as an instruction, for I know how hard it is to carry out. Yet, let me say to that: the more difficult that it appears to you, the more value it will prove to your training. Further, I can think of no other sort of work which is (after all) within the possibilities of performance for every one of you that could be of greater use to the Order. Lastly, I should personally appreciate it as a gift on my 67th birthday; for 67 is the number of Binah, understanding—from each one of you, to help me in my greatest need, the understanding of the minds of men and women and children.
The work is this: Select six persons of your acquaintance outside the Order and obtain their reactions as fully as may be to Liber OZ. (A line block should be made, as cleanly as possible, and postcards made from it with no other matter than the address; your own, or that of headquarters, or both) Select six strangers met by chance in public conveyances or places of refreshment or entertainment, and do the same. "Argue not; convert not; talk not overmuch!" AL III 42. What I want is the fullest and most accurate account of the reactions, both in words and tone and gesture; give also the impressions you get of the individual.
I should like the matter put in hand at once, and pursued perseveringly. Each should set himself a fixed date for turning in his report, typed in triplicate, to local headquarters, which will retain and file one copy, the others being sent to New York, where another copy will be filed, and the third sent to me.
Love is the law, love under will.
In the bonds of the Order,
BAPHOMET O.H.O.
P.S. From my own experience I judge the investigator will be surely swamped by floods of incoherence and irrelevance, and it will probably be necessary to explain the meaning of a document exclusively written in words of one syllable.
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