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Correspondence from to Gerald Yorke to Charles Stansfeld Jones
1 April 1948
Dear Rashoni,
Your 26/3/48. Copies of A.C.'s letters to you from 1913 to 1916 have not survived amongst his papers. I think that they would help John Symonds in his Life, as the only material for this period id the unpublished section of A.C.'s memoirs [The Confessions of Aleister Crowley] together with my typescript of The Urn, and part of the Amalantrah working which I bought the other day. If you can see your way to sending them to me it would be most helpful.
Not yet having received Liber 31, I am still in the dark about much that you write. A.C. as he got older was always making people his magical heirs. In 1932 for instance he made me his magical heir and successor re. A∴A∴ and also his literary executor; and on his death I was supposed to have him embalmed, and then rebuild Christian Rosencrantz's tomb and put the old boy inside it, but he did not give instructions on how to make the ever-burning oil He soon revoked both documents when he found that like you I was not prepared to do his will in everything.
I see that Tränker [Heinrich Tränker] is the X° O.T.O. in Germany, whose name you left blank in your previous letters. It is actually debatable whether Reuss [Theodor Reuss] passed things on to him, or whether he took the seal and other papers from Reuss's widow. I will send you what I have with regard to this on my return to London and my papers.
I wish we had a full diary of the Amalantrah working.
I am extremely interested in your further work, your relations with your Roman Catholic Lion, and the reconciliation of Michael and Lucifer. You give me just enough to whet my curiosity and not enough to judge whether it is good work, or just another case of delusions. There is nothing so difficult as deciding when qabalistic correspondences and the numerical calculations are genuine revelations, and not mere coincidence and illusion. I cannot judge without seeing a good deal more, and even then it is questionable whether my judgment is worth having.
In some ways our relations with A.C. ran a parallel course. He accused me, like you, of not accounting properly for his books, etc, and of ruining his concerns, even trying to bring a lawsuit. I laughed at him and remained friendly. When I found that he would insist on my carrying out his will where it clashed with my own, I refused to have further official relations with him and handed over my probationers to him (there were only two of them).
Your secret order which covers the intellectual aspect interests me. Has it any representative in England? If as it seems from your letters it is a Roman Catholic organisation, I expect it will have an English Representative.
Yours,
Gerald Yorke.
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