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Correspondence from Roy Leffingwell to Aleister Crowley
[EXTRACT]
[11 July 1943]
[Recalling a performance of the Gnostic Mass performed "in the rough" on 28 August 1939 at the farm of Floyd Wade.]
We had no paraphernalia. We circumscribed a Temple among the rocks. We used a rock for an altar. Another for a tomb. For a robe Wilfred [Wilfred Talbot Smith] had an old army overcoat that we found there. For his crown, some leaves intertwined. For the lance, a stick of wood. . . . Wilfred was so intent, so reverent, so impressed with the solemnity of the whole ritual that it literally tore him apart. Regina [Regina Kahl] couldn't go through her love-chant due to emotional choke-up. Wilfred, in an old army overcoat and some ridiculous leaves on his bald head, looking, acting, feeling every inch the Priest. The finest rendition of the Mass I ever saw him give.
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