Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Gerald Yorke

 

 

 

Bell Hotel [Bell Inn]

Aston Clinton Bucks

 

 

29-4-44

 

 

Dear Gerald,

 

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

 

Prospectus at last! Those getting more than one copy [of The Book of Thoth] have one specially bound—1/2 Morocco instead of 1/4 (Full N[o] G[ood] can't get skins big enough) be a wise virgin!

     

This place is working miracles, lifting me out of the dull sanity to which London had ground me down. So here's a lovely lunatic's idea—send the prospectuses by Registered Post! sealed with best wax and signet. If only I had a drink, I should enclose stamped addressed registered envelopes for victims to enclose cash. (That would cost only another £5 or so; but is it good policy? Tricky: what's your advice?)

     

Love to Angela, Johnny, Vincent, Michael. . . .—I feel like Macbeth watching Bagmio's cavalcade! What! will the line stretch out to the crack of doom?

 

Love is the law, love under will.

 

Yours ever.

 

A.C.

 

 

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