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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to John Symonds
Sept 10 [1946]
Dear John Symonds.
93.
Thanks for yours of the 9th.
A witty hostess—I believe in Disraeli's time—summed up "Every nation gets the Jews it deserves". However, one day business will take you to "Jew York": you will understand the feeling better. Anyhow, I enclose my "apotropaic"—it ought to clear me. 100 years the Jew here stood for integrity, good manners (bar some servility in the lower classes) and benevolence. Mild jokes about pork and noses, but no ill feeling. See "The Bab Ballads"!
Also in Germany; note that the Prince Consort's father was a Jewish banker. It was the Russian revolution that crashed it all; everywhere, Jews were identified with Communists.
One other point you have forgotten; Olla is first of all the self-expression of Everyman. "Every man and every woman is a star". Is Lady Macbeth to talk like Florence Nightingale, or be dumb?
I think you are right to suppose that we are not really different—though I share your opinion of Roy Campbell, I might disagree with you about Rabelais. You are not I—or what a dull world it would be!
93 93/93.
Yours.
Aleister Crowley.
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