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Correspondence from Karl Germer to Jane Wolfe
K. J. GERMER 260 West 72 New York, N. Y.
January 24, 1944
Dear Jane,
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Your letter of Jan. 16 with the copy of yours to Aleister came last week.
First: re that little confidential Note from A.C., please calm my mind, that I have your promise never to discuss this with anybody, whoever it may be; and, second: that you have not made a copy of it; should you have done it, please destroy it.
In this connection, can you tell me who this Jeannette Hayes was in relation to Norman Mudd? I don't think I ever heard her name?
Now your letter. What do you mean by "attempting an opening elsewhere"? (in par[aragraph]. 5 of your letter).
I don't think Jack's [Jack Parsons] position has as yet been fully confirmed. I am waiting for news from Aleister about this. So, meanwhile, I think it would be quite correct if members pay their dues to me, or to anybody who knows the fees and is prepared to collect them and send them on to me. I have confidence in you and Ray [Ray Burlingame] to do this. However, I don't wish to cause confusion. Therefore, if you have already contacted Jack in this matter and told him that dues would be paid to him, I won't interfere any more, but just wait what happens. I have sent Ray's and Mildred's [Mildred Burlingame] fees to London.
Thanks for your analysis of Georgia [Georgia Schneider]. Very interesting.
Re your letter to A.C. No need my going into this, though it was very illuminating. But A.C. will write you himself. Only this point about the S.W. [Scarlet Woman]. I stick to what I had written to you and others. Don't you see that there had been very much talk and gossip at Cefalu and elsewhere about not only the S.W. but all kinds of other verses in AL. I will only recall Mudd. Most everyone identified him—or herself with something or other in AL or other Holy Books. It is so sweet to be able to do so. And the demons that inspire those thoughts are so tender, alluring and make it so easy and self-evident. A.C., I suppose, joined in the game to some extent, until a particularly violent obsession by Mudd embodied in possibly 50 pages of his close writing, worked out at my house in Weida, and mailed to A.C. in Tunis in 1925, worked the miracle: A.C. wrote the Comment, driven to agonies thru Mudd's ravings. He realised the source of the danger. The better and more complete you eradicate any such and similar thoughts, and forget all speculation and rumination, the better for all concerned. I am afraid the old habit has been carried on to some extent in Agape Lodge?
I think this is all for the moment, so will close.
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Love as always,
Karl
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