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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Jack Parsons
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[19 February 1946]
I do not understand at all the arguments about the 9th degree which occupied so much of your letter of Jany. 26th. I do not see why you should not take it all simply as a labour-saving device. To follow out fully all the formulae of technical ceremonial is really too much like hard work, though for that very reason of course it is enormously valuable. At the same time one must consider that the whole tempo of the world has changed since the 15th Century or thereabouts. . . . These considerations alone made me very happy when I was initiated into a method which produced equally good results without all this how-d'-you-do.
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