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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Eliza M. Butler
The Ridge Hastings
E.M. Butler, Newnham College, Cambridge.
16 Jan [1946]
Dear Professor Butler.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
So many thanks for yours of the 13th. I will have the sketches packed to-night and sent off to-morrow. It is not 'Miss' but 'Lady' Harris [Frieda Harris], by the way. There are six or seven of them, so I had better explain that this one's husband is Sir Percy Harris, Bart, until this last election M.P. for Bethnal Green and Chief Liberal (Sinclair) Whip. She will be enchanted that I have found a good home for her last babies. The creases are not my doing; your frame maker should be able to damp and press them out.
I hear that Fay Pomerane [?] has not touched my ambit. Remember that I have always been more or less a hermit. Instance. Passionately devoted to Ancient Egypt, I spent 6 weeks in Cairo (in 1904) without visiting a mosque or a museum. I never even went to see the Pyramids. Let them come to see me! was my explanation.
This reminds me, I don't quite know why, that I am most anxious to acclimatize your mind to the point of view of the High Initiate. Imagine a man whose only contacts with the Universe were his scientific instruments. He will not only conceive an utterly different idea, but work upon it by means which appear to the normal man totally irrelevant. So it is not necessarily irrational to perform a symbolic gesture which nobody understands, or even notices, to bring about a cataclysm in history! Don't reply "Post hoc propter hoc": the test is whether one can do it again when occasion requires. Still, no matter for that; the point for you is that some people think so, and act accordingly.
Love is the law, love under will.
Yours sincerely
Aleister Crowley.
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