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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Gerald Yorke
The Ridge Hastings Sussex.
26 Mar '45 e.v.
Dear Gerald,
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Thanks for yours of the 23rd. To too do not know Williams, but I cannot conscientiously encourage a meeting with the Clover-Dweller.
I don't altogether like Williams's letter—I can't tell you why. Do you know anything about the Brotherhood of East Feuike [?] ? You know my life-long views and the passage in the Book of the Law I. 10.
Perhaps an address care of Boots does not encourage me, and certainly anyone who takes Regardie [Israel Regardie] seriously and can't spell my name, does not particularly appeal to me.
I think I shall not answer it, but file it in order to refer to it in case I should again write to Yvonne—that is, unless you want it back.
Thanks so much for your constructive criticism on the chapters, but especially for rising to my "Jock Scott" about Ophidian Vibrations. Do you remember how and why the term was invented? It was really a combination of myself and Jock Walker. By the way, have you heard anything of him, of late? I haven't directly, but Haw told me that he had got a divorce—she at least is married again, and I believe, escaped from the Channel Islands in time to avoid the worst.
I cannot comply with your suggestion to make a short historical account [of Crowley's relations with Aiwaz], for the simple reason that the occasions are innumerable. In one sense you might call them continuous—but if you mean special occasions like the Ab-Ul-Diz and Amalantrah incidents, I think that these are already on record quite as many data as can be usefully known.
With regard to the H[oly] G[uardian] A[ngel], one is obliged to restrain oneself by a feeling which I can only describe as personal delicacy, the sort of thing which prevents a Mohammedan asking even his dearest friend—'How is your wife this morning?' Unless anyone has attained to that Knowledge and Conversation, it is difficult to explain. It is in fact so powerful that one does not wish to say anything about it at all. If you will look back at your 'Magick' [Magick in Theory and Practice] page XXIX, you will notice that the Motto in the Grade of 5º=6o is left blank—and that is why.
I cannot agree with you wholly when you say that Hindu has no H.G.A. In the important Samadhi's there is one between Vishnarupadarchana and Atmadarshana, the Sanskrit name of which I have unfortunately forgotten, which is at least of this character. I never experienced it and so I can tell you nothing about it.
I cannot agree either about the Buddhist and his saints; this is not orthodox Hinayana Buddhism, though the Jains have their 72 tirthankas, and no doubt the Chinese Buddhists have something similar—but you know much more about this than I do.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by saying 'the effect is the same', because I don't think that that is the case. The relation between the H.G.A. and His client is a strictly personal matter. Two different men could not have the same H.G.A. I will read the Letter again and clear up these points if I can do so. I think it would be fair to say that the H.G.A. is a Being in the identical Path with that of His client and this fact is probably the reason for the confusion between Him and the "Higher Self".
I am sorry you do not like No. 12, I will try to make it flow more harmoniously when I revise it.
I am in fact principally engaged in re-grouping the Letters [for Magick Without Tears] under Subjects, and revising them in the process. I could not bear anything of mine to appear asynartete, which is even worse than spelling separate seperate.
Having thus smitten, I smile and thank you again for a really useful letter.
Love is the law, love under will.
Yours,
A.C.
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