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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Karl Germer
The Ridge HASTINGS England
3/7/46
Mr. Karl Germer
Dear Karl,
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Thanks for yours of the 25th ult and 26th ult.
Please thank Sascha [Sascha Germer] for her programme and message.
I went to London last week and saw a first-class man about my eyes. He says—as I expected—that the local imbecile (Mason) is a fish, and that his only title to have any connection with my eyes is that the potatoes with which they made the chips to serve him were full of them.
Anyhow, he says that the cause of my trouble is tobacco and amblyopia, and I must cut off smoking immediately and for ever. This I am doing in rapid stages.
He wrote, however, to my physician and suggested that I am suffering from two completely fatal diseases, and I think that this is probably the case. I shall know in about a week or 10 days. It is really a very nice game they have of playing ball from one to the other. You find you are getting bald, and the man is not content to treat you but sends you to a chiropodist as well! Well, we shall see what we shall see.
I do not quite follow Cullings' [Louis Culling] letter, but I cannot see that Jack [Jack Parsons] is anything but a victim. Of course he should never have done anything without asking my advice.
The appearance of Betty's mother on the scene is rather sinister; she must have been abominably brought up. I think it is nearly always the fault of the mother running around playing the fool as Betty has done for so long.
To round off this subject I have just had a long letter from Jack. He is very penitent and admits his own abject folly. I am enclosing with this a copy of my reply to him. I am sure there is no need for doing anything drastic. You must, above all, be just. I think of course that you should insist on his carrying out his obligations to Dr. Wilkinson [Louis Wilkinson]. The rest of what I have to say on this subject will be found in my Letter to Jack.
Mr. Karl Germer (2) 3/7/46
With regard to Achad's [Charles Stansfeld Jones] communications: I can make no sense of any of them, and shall ignore the whole matter. Achad went completely insane in the strict medico-legal sense of the term in 1925, and he has been getting deeper in ever since.
I am writing to Frederick [Frederic Mellinger] by this post, and as I hope to be seeing him towards the end of August I do not think I need to deal with this matter in this letter. Why he should have tried to put the authorship of the Three Wishes on to you is a complete mystery to me. I have written to explain how absurd any such idea is.
I have got so much work on my hands this afternoon that I really cannot say any more except to wish that you have had a really fine journey so far, and that it will continue in the same vein.
Love is the law, love under will.
Yours fraternally,
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