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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Grady McMurtry
Ashton Clinton Bucks
Oct 16 [1944]
Dear Louis,
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Yours of Oct 7 turned up just as I was on the point of beginning to wonder about you—two or three times before that has happened—you must be clairvoyant!
But you are certainly economical with your news! You don't refer to the O.T.O. at all, to your prospects for the IX°, to say nothing of the Caliphate. Did you get two or three letters about this, and my proposal? I want to know as soon as possible, though of course I wouldn't like to hurry you in a matter of such importance.
Did you send anything to Karl [Karl Germer] on Sept 1 or Oct 1? I rather hope so, as these last two months he has fallen very short of the target. Luckily, I sold enough Tarots [The Book of Thoth] to make up for it.
(Then—did you get your Coleridge?)
But I'm a bit nervous; I should have to go on paying two rents at least until A in 0° [illegible]; London is still no place for creative work. The big blow (of the theft of £373.16.4) still keeps me down. I must have told you all about this; I feel sure one or two letters of mine never reached you.
Jack [Jack Parsons] sent on the $80 O.K. I got a very good letter from him a week or so ago. The great point of all is the Aspiration; and I am now satisfied that he is sound on this. He sent also a poem, by far the best I have yet seen of his.
So look to your [illegible], young fellow!
No hint, no hope of a printer! I really think that our only course is to buy one, or a share in one. I'm trying to interest capitalists. Alas! I am so poor a hand at all such negotiations.
You have a typescript of the Tao Teh King, haven't you? Of Liber Aleph I think not. Here the best plan is for me to send copies of them to Ashworths and have say 4 new copies made. I would do this, if I were less nervous about cash in hand; it's another expensive job. My secretary (part time) couldn't do it; she has already the O.T.O. Manifesto and other papers of O.T.O. to fill my spare hours. These I am sending you as soon as ready. But I must have more money, somehow. I may try to get a bookseller to take 50 Tarots at £6 to hide away for 10 years or so. But to hide 50 costs £50! Hell!
I will ask [illegible] to find you a Yi King and get some one to write into it all my notes from my own copy. But that again is a No. 1 Job!
Can't drivel away any more; here's all the best!
Love is the law, love under will.
Yours,
A.C.
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