Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Grady McMurtry

 

     

 

Netherwood

The Ridge,

Hastings

 

 

2/8/24

 

 

Dear Grady,

 

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

 

Thanks for yours of July 20th. Also for the Army draft, which was particularly welcome as I have a whole lot of things to clear up at the end of this month.

     

I think I have already acknowledged the receipt of The Yogi. Frieda [Frieda Harris] has said nothing about her Rabbelais.

     

The trouble with your poem is that it is an anti-climax; you begin with exalted symbols and drop down to a rather cruder conception.

 

Love is the law, love under will.

 

Yours ever,

 

but feeling rotten Aleister

 

 

Lieut Grady McMurtry

1930th Ord Ammunition Co (Avn)

A.P.O. 744

U.S. Army

 

 

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