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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Grady McMurtry
The Ridge, Hastings, Sussex.
26 Mar. 1945 e.v.
Dear Grady,
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Many thanks for yours of the 12th and 16th March. Those Stamps are just what I wanted. As to the children's names, I don't know them. It's simply that if I want to make a pleasant gesture to someone, and happen to have a few stamps, I say "Have you got any young friends who collect?"—because here are some!" So please don't go out of your way to get anything, unless you have the 1st Blue Mauritius, or something like that, that I could sell for £15,000.
I have really worked very hard on your revised Dynamics [version 1 / version 2], and I am sincerely sorry that I have to tell you that it doesn't click. I don't know what you are trying to prove, and what you are trying to bring about. I don't understand most of the expressions which you use, and your notes on Energy, which appears to be a kind of Glossary, only makes the darkness deeper, except when you explain terms which every school-boy knows. I am asking Mr. Grant [Kenneth Grant] to read it through and tell you separately if he can get anything out of it, but I see no reason at all why you shouldn't send it to people in the hope that they have better luck with it than I. I quite understand, on the other hand, your feeling that you ought to keep your energy stored up until you have got sufficient to release it with adequate results.
I am sorry about the candy. I think it is a hundred to one that the girl stole it and that her father pocketed the cash which I gave him for the postage. It is of course quite impossible to do anything about it, but if any more comes my way, I will not forget you. I got the two Steig books, and thank you very heartily for them. Of the two, The Lonely One seems to me much the better despite the shameful omission in it of a 'Portrait of a Man with Technocracy on the Brain'!
I got a cheque £10.0.0 on the Guarantee Trust from the U.S. Service on the 19th, but that is the only cheque I have had from you. I suppose the other was sent through Germer [Karl Germer].
I have had a bit of a blow personally and financially. The Dentist wants to work on me, if my general health will stand it, which I think is more than doubtful, for the next three or four months;--and that will cost a young fortune.
I am happy to enclose the Word of the Equinox.
Love is the law, love under will.
Fraternally,
Yours ever,
Aleister
Lieut Grady L. McMurtry 1814th Ord S&M Co (Avn) (Q) A.P.O. 149 U.S. Army
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