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Correspondence from Karl Germer to Jane Wolfe
K. J. GERMER 260 West 72 New York, N. Y.
March 14, 1944
Dear Jane,
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Thanks for your M.O. [Money Order]. The $ this month very much reduced—transfer was cabled to London to-day. I think most everybody reduces, or defaulted altogether, because of the tax.
My dear Jane, you should learn to have confidence in Aleister's plans. They should have the full support of all of us. Don't you realise that only if this full confidence exists and is manifested (with, shall I say, enthusiasm?) can there be any success. There must be confidence, but also discipline. And it has always been the lack of both that has led to failures. (I know arguments you can raise: my experience tells me that they do not apply from a deeper point of insight.)
I am completely out of touch with Jack [Jack Parsons], and this may be best. Ray [Ray Burlingame] wrote me that he has been asked to 1003 [1003 S. Orange Grove Avenue] for a discussion, and so have probably been the others which is allright. I shall advise Ray to attend—then it is up to him to chose Max's [Max Schneider] circle or 1003. The angle that interests and concerns me is contributions. You and Ray have been most wonderful and if you join the new lodge I suppose it would be only fair to pay contributions through Jack for the collection of a regular transfer through him to A.C. Naturally, after two years experiences with Agape [Agape Lodge], I am doubtful about the results. I will, however, give Jack the benefit of the doubt and hope he will be able to make a substantial transfer to A.C. regularly and that the forming of a new lodge and payments to him which hitherto were sent to me, will not prove detrimental to the support of the G.W. [Great Work]. I would quite understand an interim phase where expenses might be high. But, if the activities are started right, the end might be able to support the G.W. much better than was formerly or is now the case.
In all of this, you can entirely choose your own path. Let me soon hear form you.
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Love,
Karl
P.S. I wish to stress a recent repetition of the injunction by A.C. in an emphatic way: that any intercourse with W.T. Smith [Wilfred Talbot Smith] means expulsion. As the situation at 1003 is not quite clear to me, and if W.T.S. should still be there, there might be danger of contact. Please warn anybody that there is no change in that respect in the policy of the Grand Lodge. I have only written this to Ray and Mildred [Mildred Burlingame].
Karl
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