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Correspondence from Frederic Mellinger to Karl Germer
[EXTRACT]
[25 April 1943]
And now, I feel, I may give you,
without any minimizing mental reservations, that clear
answer to your question about what I owe to W.T.S. [Wilfred
Talbot Smith]. May-be, any
good priest might be saturated with the letter and spirit of
the scriptures he is preaching, as Wilfred is. But not every
one is a personification of the essence of what he
teaches, to that extent as Smith personifies Will, the
Spirit's basis. I owe to his example the best part of
my understanding (as far as it goes) of that sacred mystery
of the union between Spirit and Matter. That he was not all
the time able to fully apply this astounding capacity
to mundane affairs, has its reason in complexes (
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sapping the lifeblood of his spiritual vision. If you would
have seen him once performing the part of the priest in the
Mass [