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Correspondence from Jane Wolfe to Aleister Crowley
[20 January 1943]
Wilfred [Wilfred Talbot Smith] has a mind that he cannot still and out of all this thinking, this talking—which fluctuates from day to day, mind you, in his desire to consider all angles or get a foothold (for he says things are too involved here for anything so simple as packing a grip and walking down the street)—comes what I understand to be the following:
1. Shall I go at all?
2. Shall I go with no intention of coming back?
3. Shall I go endeavouring to carry out the Instructions, feeling that no good will come of it?
4. Shall I concentrate on Church of Thelema for the time being?
This latter startled, me: I reminded him of Jones [Charles Stansfeld Jones] and his Psychomagian Society, but he could not see a parallel.
Jack [Jack Parsons] said he would stand aloof from any action—it was entirely up to Smith. Yet Sunday, on entering Wilfred's room, I saw Jack deep in writing and when I said, happily to Wilfred, "O, is Jack writing his article for the Agape News-Letter?", Wilfred answered, "No, he is preparing a paper on the Church of Thelema."
Jack's instability I discovered quite some weeks ago—really instability and not domination. I presume his 4 or 5 Watery Signs are back of it all.
There is so much that is fine and splendid in Smith, it is unfortunate personal meetings cannot be held—even with Karl [Karl Germer], whom I love and admire. Yet both Jack and Smith think Karl treats Smith too much like a little schoolboy and in some respects shows a little lack of good manners. I offer this with all due regard for Karl, I hope: he is near and dear to me.
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