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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Edward Noel Fitzgerald
Randolph Hotel, Oxford.
Oct. 20. 1942.
Eq. Greetings.
Dear Noel,
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
So glad to hear from you, and thanks for the Greetings wire. Fine work for the E.S.F. but for the Order. Will you do a Mass Observation (as per enclosed) for me on Liber OZ. I can send you spare P[ost] C[ards] if you like. Get them to stick them up, nail them to a church and town hall doors and so on. Start something! I enclose also the poem you so much admired.
London is worse all the time. Religious persecution all over again. We need a dose of Stalin or Leon Blum or even—well, someone who would get rid of the Jews as well! Really, it strain's one's love for one's country almost to breaking point. However, I did make a record of the Hymn to Pan—5 minutes all but 2 or 3 seconds continuous roaring and raging: so my lungs are not quite done for. The magical effect of that recording will soon be seen in London. I'm off to Oxford tomorrow for a week, and I hope that when I get back, there will be no more 17 Cavendish square! (I know, this is obscure: I'll tell you all about it when I see you.)
Don't know about curry things—I gave up trying years ago.
No, I've found no books or anything else.
Write to Lady H. [Frieda Harris] direct about your Brum [Birmingham] idea.
Love is the law, love under will.
Yours hopping mad,
A.C.
[Enclosure as follows.]
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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