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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Louis Umfreville Wilkinson
13 Oct. 1942
Dear Louis,
Do What Thou Wilt shall be the Whole of the Law
Not at all surprised, but none the less delighted, to receive a birthday letter from you. All I ask in addition is a Gift; I suggest one like Mercy, blessing him that gives as well as him that takes. Videlicet, send me a Record of Research.
I am sending it out to all my people, and think it should form an adequate basis for a practical political campaign. I don’t think it would bore you; indeed it might help you in your own work. Of course, I am expecting from most of my victims little more than a superficial and quite objective report; from you I shall hope for champagne foam of sly wit as well as draughts of the robust wine of your deeper thought.
London is no less London than usual; perhaps slightly less tolerable, or I the more irritable than the wont. Enough to swing the balance and decide me to try Oxford for a few days at least. So, on the night of Oct. 20th and until further notice, I shall be found at the Randolph Hotel in that antique and celebrated city. I am told, by the way, that someone has thought of starting a University there. Indeed, on rumour has it that there is already something of the sort. I will have a look when I get down there.
Yours ever
Aleister (a spiral of depression).
Please return enclosed; being the original (and I have no copy here yet) it has to go in the Archives of the Order.
Love is the Law, Love under Will.
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