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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to John Symonds
9 Oct 46
Dear J.S.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Thanks for your note received this morning with the manuscript. I am getting a fair copy made of the complete book as far as may be possible, and this may take some little while, but I will lose no time about it.
Your letter opens my lips. I had a terrible shock one morning when I opened a letter from you in which you described Tambi as your friend, because I remembered only too clearly that when his name came up in our conversations down here, my only comment was "that drunken nigger."
I decided to say nothing, and leave time to clear the matter up, which it has now done.
You know, however little we like it, and however contrary it is to theory, THEY ARE—education only makes it worse. Tambi's uncle was Solicitor-General of Ceylon and by of having a great Yogi, who wrote two portentous Commentaries on the Gospels of Matthew and John to prove that J.C. was also a Yogi, and in the course of his remarks he mentioned that one Gospel says that Christ rode into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday on a Colt, and the other Gospel says on an Ass, and that wicked infidels make much of the contradiction. "Why" exclaimed the annotator, "there is no contradiction at all—why should He not have ridden with one foot on the colt and the other on the Ass "as in the fashion of a hippodrome?"
There is nothing you can do about it except keep away.
Thanks so much for your enquiries about my health and so on. I have been having rather a hard time, but I think the worst is now over. Thanks also for sending the Hemminger cable.
My birthday is on Saturday the 12th: couldn't you manage to come lunch here? I am hoping that Louis Wilkinson may come.
Love is the law, love under will.
Yours sincerely,
A.C.
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