Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Grady McMurtry

from Alexander Crowley

93 Jermyn Street,

S.W.1

March 2 [1944]

C∴[are] F∴[rater] H.A. [Hymeneous Alpha]

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

Thanks for £20: will send formal receipt when pressure eases.

Thanks also for chit from [Karl Germer] which I return. Please let him have substance of following by same note.

"A.C. warned when Perry Tull first appeared with a story about missing insurance policy. A.C. had been familiar with this story for 40 years as part of the regular stock-in-trade of the Confidence Man.

So he is not surprised at 's views.

But writes of "facts repeated to me" (him)—I hope is absolutely 100% sure that they are facts. A.C. doesn't see why P.T. [Perry Tull] shouldn't have been allowed to stand in his defence. A.C. wants to know why that can't be passed on. could write A.C. direct without "giving Names."

I'm not too happy about you. All the time you were here you hardly spoke of the Work at all; when I did Adorations, you seemed sunk in apathetic gloom! It seemed clear that you didn't do this practice yourself—and everybody ought to. But you especially.

You won't get far with the Work unless you are in desperate earnest about it. Anything else whatever must be considered as no more than a necessary relaxation, or a nuisance of an obstacle.

Wake up!

Well, I've not much to boast about myself: I seem to be going through a spell of lassitude, and can't force myself. "Burned-off" is the modern word, I fancy. I dare say I'll be all right in a few days.

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Fraternally

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Lieut. Grady L. McMurtry

1475th Ord M.M. Co (Avn) (Q)

A.P.O. 638

U.S. Army

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