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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to W. Dawson Sadler
[EXTRACT]
[21 December 1944]
[concerning Crowley's dislike for Arthur Edward Waite and his account of finding grist for his anti-Waite mill]
. . . one of the most providential occurrences in my life. No sooner had I landed in New York in 1914, than I found the papers teeming with headlines about Arthur Waite, "Burn the brute, cries Mother-in-Law," "Waite confesses giving poison that killed millionaire Peek," "Dr. Waite's wicked man from Egypt,." "Waite confesses to two murders," and so on. I cut out all these headlines, and had them stuck on a page and photographed, and so was able to announce his resurrection to damnation in March 1919. I naturally called the article [Dead Weight] in No. 10 [of the Equinox] the Obituary, because the Equinox had to stop for five years, and I thought I had better finish him off.* In actual practice he only died in, I think it was the summer of 1943.
* If he had died, I shouldn't have made fun of him.
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