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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Phyllis Seckler
Oct. 20, 1943 e.v.
Dear Sister Phyllis,
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Mr. Germer [Karl Germer] sent me your letter to him dated July 20 and the album of cartoons.
Let me thank you for the frankness, clarity and sincerity of the letter, and for the brilliant observation, balanced psychology, and wittily achieved expression of the album!
I say it quite seriously: I have had more illuminating information (from the cartoons in particular) than I had from all the rest that has come from California in the last quarter of a century!
How it vindicates Browning's: thesis in "The Ring & the Book"! Only through Art can one obtain a three-dimensional picture of life.
Now, my dear girl, there is no need to tell you anything. You have all the courage and all the commonsense necessary to pull you through.
I will only remark that, whatever anyone may say, you have in me a sincere friend and admirer! On me you may always rely, if ever you need me.
Love is the law, love under will,
Fraternally yours
Aleister Crowley
P.S. The great J.W. Parsons [Jack Parsons] describes you as an 'indigent cook.' Anytime you would like to collect a few thousand dollars the letter is at your service.
Strange too; even He is not without detractors. A man over here—not one of us—from Washington, D.C. who knows him described him as: "A yellow pup bumming around with his snout glued to the rump of an alley-cat."
More truth than poetry? Please, a cartoon of this!. A.C.
Love to Max [Max Schneider], Georgia [Georgia Schneider], Jean: 1000 apologies for not having written. Accidents, illness, no secretary. Woe is me! A.C.
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