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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to John Symonds
7 Sept [1946]
Dear John Symonds
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Oh well—what must be must be! So 121 Adelaide Road be it!
"Samite". I am far from "anti"—ask the Angle Palestinian Society (here last week) about our long friendly discussions, my introduction of their chess-playing member to my club—and so on. Mellinger [Frederic Mellinger] (here probably between now and Sept 14) my head man in Germany is a Jew.
All the same I will insert an apotropaic note in that poem.
Here is the universal rule. When a minority is strong enough to make trouble, it always does so. Think over the I.C.S. Islands in India, and the White minority in South U.S.A. and you will understand better. When you have lived among such, better still.
Back to that poem for a moment. Spend a week-end at the Metropole Brighton and you will return a raging foaming fuming Anti-Semite—or have proved yourself a very fine philosopher!
"Every man and every woman is a star" AL I III.
Love is the law, love under will.
Yours, much better.
Aleister Crowley.
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