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Correspondence from Karl Germer to Jane Wolfe
[18 May 1946]
Re Jack [Jack Parsons]: he has left two of my recent letters to him unanswered, despite the fact that the matters were of extreme urgency. This, to say the least, is unbrotherly. It is more: it makes the Work suffer and handicaps vital activities.
I am informed of Jack's manipulation of the proceeds of the money he got from the sale of 1003 [1003 S. Orange Grove Avenue]. Two pledges were involved; one, that 1003 was pledged on several occasions to the Work. Another, when he promised to pay me his arrears plus a substantial sum, when the escrow was lifted. Both pledges seem to have been broken.
He does not write me. So I am forced, to abide by reports I have received from other sources, and they coincide with what you say about his disposal of the money and his present situation.
This situation taken with Jack's actions before, especially his broken pledge to cease all relations with W.T.S. [Wilfred Talbot Smith], make me dubious of his moral strength, and his reliability, and his devotion to the Work. There is no more that I can say, except that I have a feeling that he has prepared a bed of thorns for himself. You can't fool the Gods too long. I keep hoping that it is just a matter for him to learn some lessons, and then come back into the fold. I feel a strange hostility from him towards myself.
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