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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Kenneth Grant
TEL: Aston Clinton 4. [1 P.M, 4 onward P.M. are the sure hours.]
Aston Clinton Bucks
Dec 23. 1944
Care Frater
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Your two letters, dated between Feb 19 and March 21, seem to have taken a long time to arrive! Very welcome.
Your usual luck still attends you. There were only 2 copies [The Book of Thoth] left till—when the binder finishes the next batch. It is not luck that your copy is bound in 1/2 not 1/4 Morocco; any one who buys two or more copies gets one of them like that. But it is luck that you get such an early copy; they sent me an assorted lot without looking! Idiots! Still, you profit. It is on the way. I thought you would like me to inscribe it; so I did.
Many thanks for the 99 that safely lie in the shelter of the fold. The one that’s lost on the hills away Far off from the gates of gold Away on the mountains wild and bare Away from the tender shepherd’s care can bloody well stay there.
The A∴A∴ & O.T.O. are quite asynartete, save that the latter body has accepted the Law of Thelema. “One Star in Sight” tells all about A∴ A∴& the typescripts I sent you (didn’t I?) all about O.T.O. I can’t understand your confusing them.
Well—when we meet.
Love is the law, love under will.
F∴ly [Fraternally] [Eleven-fold Cross] Baphomet X° 33° 90° 96°
[contained with the above letter] Bell Inn Aston Clinton Bucks Dec 23, '44 e.v.
Received from G.K. Grant Esq. on behalf of the Grand Treasurer General of the O.T.O. the sum of [illegible] £10.10.0.
Aleister Crowley
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