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Correspondence from Karl Germer to Jane Wolfe
K. J. GERMER 260 West 72nd St. New York, N. Y.
February 14, 1944
Dear Jane,
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Yours of February 10 came to-day with the M.O. [Money Order] for which Many thanks.
I don't know what Selah means. The dictionary says its real meaning is unknown. I take it to have the same root as Salaam which means some sort of salute or "Hail" in Arabic. However, I don't think to attach any particular meaning to its use by A.C. in that little note.'
Furthermore: you may perhaps misunderstand the reference to Max [Max Schneider] in that note if you take it as criticising Max. It mentioned merely that A.C. had the premonition that something was impending about the movement in California. Then he received that package of letters I sent A.C. among them some letters between Max and myself, which threw light on developments at Pasadena. And the danger was not from Max's part, but from other influences. There was not enough purity and magical maturity in the parties involved at Pasadena to withstand the attacks by certain demonic forces.
Why should you of all persons have to take a hand again at heavy physical work in the community life? Would it not be enough for you to show up at evenings occasionally and radiate atmosphere? I think if activities are to be built up again there should be younger hands available to do the work. That should be part of the plan. By the way: is W.T. Smith [Wilfred Talbot Smith] still there? and Helen [Helen Parsons]? I just can't see how that could work. A.C. recently reiterated the stern injunction that no member must have anything to do with Smith.
Another thing: since the dissolution of Agape Lodge the contributions I have been sent by various individual members have enabled me to make a decent transfer to London monthly. I am much afraid that if those individuals would rejoin the new Lodge at 1003 [1003 S. Orange Grove Avenue, Pasadena, California] their contributions would fall off, and that would be a catastrophe to the Work. Nobody at Agape saw that the maintenance of A.C. in the first place; of the activities of the Order in the second, were of prime importance; the activities of a local lodge are of tertiary weight. Agape policy was always that their matters came first, second and third; A.C. and the rest came after. This must not develop again. And I shall ask all those members who have so kindly sent me their contributions in the last months with so much devotion, to continue doing so. I will not let any new Lodge jeopardise the Work. Almost everyone: Jack [Jack Parsons], Smith, Helen, Betty [Betty Northrup] have written me time and again that I was only out for money. Well, I am, because without it A.C. would hardly be alive to-day or in the state of health and creative capacity he is in now. You yourself will have to be very firm on this point.
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All my love to you,
Karl
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