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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Jane Wolfe
[16 March 1943]
Your most welcome letter of Feb. 26 came just in time to stop me putting Interdict—and your history will tell you what that means—upon the Lodge.
Really, it is a little puzzling. Letters dated Feb. 14 tell me that Jack [Jack Parsons] had flouted my instructions completely; now on Feb. 23, he writes that he is complying with them! I surmise that pars. 2 sqq. mean that Smith [Wilfred Talbot Smith] is in some sort of Quarantine—he can make a fine yellow flag out of his yellow streak!—in some part of the grounds of 1003 [1003 S. Orange Grove Avenue]. This for humanitarian reasons. I can't exactly forbid this; but the objection to it is that it will do no good to Smith. I had hoped so earnestly that the retirement would make something of him. But I'm afraid he is a dyed-in-the-wool parasite.
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