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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Gerald Yorke
Aston Clinton, Bucks.
June 1 44.
My dear Gerald.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Many thanks for filled form; but no chance of your being forgotten! You get a specially bound copy, with inscription nobly conceived, carefully composed and artistically executed.[1]
About the other matter, it is the absence of my diary that started the doubts. But your data will help me to check it in another way. The trouble, briefly, is this. I supposed that the Tarot [The Book of Thoth] a/c [account] was paid, bar the usual fuss at the end: at the worst, say £60. They always wanted cash in advance for small extras, so how could I imagine there was £373 owing??? A smashing blow! And I still feel sure that some sums paid in were not credited; hence my query. Subs have come in surprisingly well, but there is still over £100 to find before I can get full possession of the books! This means that I may have to sell up Jermyn Street—even to my clothes! And I had so hoped for just one summer full of work and empty of worry, before I passed in my checks. Listen! I often missed lunch because I hadn't the energy to walk the 100 yards to the restaurant!
Here I am rapidly becoming my own man again. I hate to ask you who have already done so much for the Work; but the end must be near in any case. Would you take one of the enclosed, which I am sending to one or two 'possibles'? It would give me summer, and put me on my honour to get this 50-letter book [Magick Without Tears] before I conk out. It will help the world more than any other, in its way.
Love is the law, love under will.
Yours ever
A.C.
P.S. Love to Angela and the rising generation!
1—It was not specially bound, but the inscription reads "To my very dear brother in the Great Work V.I. (whether he likes it or not) let this volume bring Full Understanding. T.M.Θ. 666 With friendship.—G.J. Yorke
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