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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Jack Parsons
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[15 March 1946]
I am particularly interested in what you have written to me about the elemental [Marjorie Cameron], because for some little time past I have been endeavoring to intervene personally in this matter on your behalf. I would however have you recall Lévi’s [Eliphas Levi] aphorism: ‘The love of the Magus for such things is insensate and destroys him.’
It seems to me that there is a danger of your sensitiveness upsetting your balance. Any experience that comes your way you have a tendency to over-estimate. The first fine careless rapture wears off in a month or two, and some other experience comes along and carries you off on its back. Meanwhile you have neglected and bewildered those who are dependent on you, either from above or from below.
I will ask you to bear in mind that you have one fulcrum for all your levers, and that is your original oath to devote yourself to raising mankind. All experiences, all efforts, must be referred to this: as long as it remains unshaken you cannot go far wrong, for by its own stability it will bring you back from any tendency to excess.
At the same time, you being as sensitive as you are, it behoves [sic] you to be more on your guard than would be the case with the majority of people.
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