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Correspondence from Karl Germer to Jane Wolfe
[7 October 1943]
Need I say that I was glad to get your note that you had moved out? I had expected it—and yet I kept being afraid—not for the Order, but for yourself. Your ties had been too close all the time.
I wonder whether you see the problem? I have got a pretty clear idea of it; some of the recent letters that Smith [Wilfred Talbot Smith] sent me, and to which I did not reply, made it all quite clear where he is. It was all Choronzon. But it may be that he has been on the brink for years and that the real step was never taken.
Ray Burlingame wrote me a long letter a few weeks ago. One passage reads: "We wish particularly to give the highest praise possible to the efforts of Jane Wolfe, who has been and is the real light and inspiration above all others of the group." I was glad when I read this. I believe you had put your own light too much under the table.
Let this be enough for this moment. I should have been moving Oct. 1st, but we are still in a hotel, with no files or other commodities available; they are all packed, as we thought we could go in on the 2nd. We'll be lucky to move in Saturday.
I have deferred notifying the members of the former Agape Lodge that I have dissolved the Lodge altogether: I have come to the conviction that the name smells, politically and otherwise. If at any time it is resurrected, it should be under another name that has no past bad traditions. Needless to say, that anybody who will keep up relations with Smith or Jack [Jack Parsons] will no longer be a member of the Order. As soon as I have the time I will compose and circularise a letter. Only it seems so ridiculous to me. I would have to send it to Helen [Helen Parsons] and Betty [Sara Northrup] too and to some others who are only in Agape because of the job they had in Jack's shop. Well, I'll see. And do write a general report to 666, 'with a copy to me, when you feel like it and after consideration and reflection.
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