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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to David Curwen
The Ridge, Hastings
19. 2. 46
Care Frater,
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
At last I find myself able to pay attention to yours of January 28th. I must renew the apologies which I enclosed with your set of Letters.
A member of the Order [Frederic Mellinger] has just arrived from Germany and has kindly promised to get my papers into some sort of shape for me during the four or five days that he is with me, so I hope that in the future things will be a little more regular than they have been in the past.
Thanks for the return of the typescript.
I am at a loss to know what you mean by your letter in which you discuss ten points. I think it must have gone astray. I can remember nothing of any such letter.
Thank you very much for your remarks on what we may call the Indian Method. You are quite wrong in thinking that it is not my intention to continue with this method, but I made up my mind that there would be no sense in starting it unless I was prepared to take it seriously and I feel that I can hardly do this until my dentist has finished with me, which I hope will be by the end of next month.
So please do not regard your instructions as wasted; in fact I am going to bother you by putting another question. I am not quite sure what you mean by Celibacy. If you were to take this word in its ordinary meaning I think I may say that for the last few years I have completely qualified to carry out the operation. I rather doubt whether this point can be settled by writing, and I hope you will give me the opportunity of talking it over with you. When the dentist has finished I suppose I can come to London, and do myself the honour calling on you, if it is inconvenient for you to come down and stay with me for a day or two.
You say "Watch carefully that no evil effects arise from the sulfur"—but what effects are to be expected?
My diet is, I think, quite satisfactory, my principal food at present is milk and egg, and the nearest I get to anything sour is an orange or rather its juice. Is this supposed to be forbidden?
The more I consider the matter the more I am inclined to have a shot at it; but as you yourself say it is a long laborious process. I should feel more inclined to start if I had better indications as to the meaning of the word "long." You apparently carried the business through very conscientiously for three years without, so far as one can judge, any notable results, and that is no doubt rather a typical case, as you yourself say, it is laborious and one would like to know that one was getting somewhere within a comparatively short period. However when the Ides of March or rather the Calends of April have passed, we may be able to decide something more definite.
Your sincerity and confidence have decidedly impressed me.
Love is the law, love under will.
Yours fraternally,
Mr. David Curwen 71 Melcombe Street Baker Street, NW1
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