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Correspondence from Karl Germer to Jane Wolfe
METAL WORKING MACHINERY 260 West 72nd Street New York 23, N. Y. TEL. ENDICOTT 2-6799
March 1, 1945
Dear Jane,
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Yours of Feb. 24 with the enclosures received with thanks. I'll first reply to some points in yours.
I am sending pure Perique tobacco regularly, and have been doing so for the last three or almost four years. No use doing anything at your end. The matter came up because last year he had too large a supply and asked me to stop or rather skip a shipment. Then possibly due to was conditions, there was a considerable delay and he got a little short. But if he gets the parcels that are on the way he should be well supplied.
Yes, it would be wonderful if you would mutually send three or four parcels to Aleister per month. Don't forget: they must be marked 'Unsolicited Gift'. You know perhaps best what kind of things A.C. likes: natural food, not 'scientifically improved' on nature; fried fruit, figs, dates, apricots; red caviar, which he likes very much and is not expensive; chocolate. I sent some genuine Portugese sardines lately—they might be of great value because of the olive oil (I know from experience how much the body suffers from a lack of fats and oils). (The caviar should be well packed separately: one of my parcels arrived with the jars of honey and caviar broken and all messed up.) I think sweets are allright.
Aleister said the atmosphere in his new place at Hastings is very good and he likes it very much; the air is more bracing. Otherwise I don't know much more.
Of course, Jack [Jack Parsons] is at the same time repulsed and fascinated by Smith [Wilfred Talbot Smith]. I have seen that for years. I wonder whether Jack has access to the planes where he perceives Smith's magical workings? You should have had a reply from A.C. before this and I hope it has arrived or will so soon. I can't imagine A.C. taking any other stand than mine, as expressed in recent letters. Smith, as a brother, has been given a task. Upon fulfillment of that task depends his reinstatement in the Order, in one function or another, which remains to be decided according to the outcome of the ordeal, which in itself is given to clarify the T.W. [True Will] of 132 [Wilfred T. Smith].
If Smith runs away from the ordeal; or if he does not undertake it seriously with all his heart; he will just find himself out. But there is more: he will find himself the enemy of the Work and the Order, and will use all his stagnated, bottled up, distorted forces to operate in hostile ways to the Work, instead of concentrating them upon the accomplishment of that personal G.W. [Great Work] which alone would make him fit for a larger role, and for the accomplishment of his T.W. It is because of the putrid vapors which contaminate the pure air of its surroundings, that A.C. has always insisted upon spiritual quarantine in that phase, the necessity of which appears as unreasonable to the uninitiate, and seems almost as dictated by petty spite.
I think you should make this train of thoughts a theme for your discussions among members of the Lodge.
I might further add that, when it comes to the stage of the destruction of the Ego there are two forces at work: The H.G.A. [Holy Guardian Angel] and the Evil Persona. It's like a tug of war. Both will manifest in succeeding stages. If the latter wins—you know the outcome. It is only when the side of the H.G.A. has reached a complete and final victory, visible by definite proofs (a phase which may take years) that the candidate can gradually be welcomed back into the fold. The decision on whether this success has been reached can only rest with the Heads, or rather Baphomet.
I dislike from the bottom of my convictions that Smith should stay on the same grounds as the Lodge. Some sort of contact cannot be avoided; the atmosphere is bound to be contaminated; and Jack is no match for Smith's infinitely wider experience and knowledge in arts magical and control of their forces.
I do hope Jack will soon take a firm and categorical stand and carry out to the letter the instructions that A.C. may send, provided he does so at all, having given clear enough instructions long ago. It is a supreme test for Jack, and he just has to prove himself. These are the sort of phases when daily recital of the Holy Books [Volume I, Volume II, Volume III]—provided one knows them by heart—prove of such a great value. It makes for the creation of an armour which the emanations of the Evil Persona of a disintegrating soul has no power to pierce. It is never too late.
I think Helen [Helen Parsons], with her strong magical link with Smith, should be out of the Council for the time being.
I have said all, it's nothing but repetitions of things said time and again.
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My love to you and good luck. You have a valiant fight to fight.
Karl
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