Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Augustus John

 

 

 

 

Netherwood

The Ridge

Hastings

 

 

27th September, 1947

 

 

Ex Castro

Nemoris Inferioris

 

An Ixxl

Sol in 0°Libra.

 

 

Care Frater

 

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

 

The Greetings of the Equinox of Autumn.

     

The Word of the Equinox is brilliance (Ring settled on the last five letters) AL. I 64

     

The Oracle of the Equinox is times (AL II 36)

     

The Omen of the Equinox is VIII Pī (love)

 

Love is the law, love under will.

 

Yours fraternally,

 

9ŗ=2o   AA

 

 

From Chiaroscuro: Fragments of Autobiography by Augustus John, Jonathan Cape, London, 1952, p. 82.