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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Anne Macky
[EXTRACT]
[19 November 1943]
It is difficult to write "cheering words" on occassions of this kind [the death of a friend of Anne Mackey's]; it always sounds like, and usually is, humbug. And yet, as the immediate poignancy is past, and one can face the event with a calm mind, it is honestly helpful to remind oneself of certain fundamental ideas of philosophy. 1. It is a play of Nuit. 2. Every experience, however painful, is a gain; for it expands the universe of the mind, and enriches it. 3. Every experience is a necessary step, and in accord with one's True Will, for it is oneself and not another that originally determined the conditions of this life. 4. Enriched and ennobled by the friendship which is past, one is fit to grasp as new friendships of even greater significance and value.
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