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Correspondence from Karl Germer to Gerald Yorke
23 May 1948
Dear Yorke:
Yours of May 7th with copy of "the Commentary called D". Thank you very much! I read it through and found a few typographical errors: some are obvious and can be corrected; some are doubtful, and some day when I have more leisure, I'll send you a list and ask you to check.
The list of stuff you bought from Kerman [Isidore Kerman] is certainly surprising. I agree £100 is quite a lot of money for that. As you so kindly offer to send all this material to me some time later to be copied, I would like to say now again how I marvel at the assistance you are giving me gratuitously and spontaneously. I am so little used to such an attitude of frankness, generosity, and spiritual honesty, that it give me ever again a pleasant shock. It is hard to tell you how deeply I appreciate this help.
I ought to have sent you some of the material which you mailed me with the request to have copies made here and then send you a copy. I'm afraid nothing is finished yet. The 90 page manuscript on Astrology has been started, but there is slow progress as the lady in California who offered to do it is writing a novel and can only devote part of her time to it. But it is not forgotten. The same applies to other things. Should I forget anything, please remind me later.
Commentary on the Book of Lies: I do not possess this.
Symonds [John Symonds] should have received Jane Wolfe's reminiscences by now.
Jones [Charles Stansfeld Jones]: Your letter to him of 3/5/48 strikes me as very good, though I do not know the letter or document to which it answers. I could never have composed such a letter. It reveals a deep understanding of the over-all picture.—I enclose copy of a letter which I sent Jones when he urged me to take a stand and write him.
Constitution of the Order of Thelemites: some time ago I asked you and you promised to send me a complete copy. Did you mail it? It has not arrived so far. I am anxiously awaiting it. Please don't forget it. Is it such a lengthy paper?
Money: Can you wait a little while for what I owe you? I heard from Wilkinson [Louis Wilkinson] that the Official Receiver is beginning to review his stand, and W.[ilkinson] has hopes that he will release the cash. If you could wait a while it would be of great help at this juncture.
Headquarters: I have decided on a place. It is located in Pennsylvania about 110 miles from New York City. Completely secluded with 4 acres of land in hilly and wooded country, far away from traffic. It has a 100 year old house of heavy stone construction, with modern conveniences not yet completed; no water and electricity yet. The completion of the place will take my last resources. However, I want to begin with an addition to serve as a sort of offices and library as quickly as possible and finish this year. I hope I can do it.
Handel [Albert H. Handel]: Let me add a word about him. I have know him since 1927 or so and renewed my acquaintance with him soon after my arrival. Relations were pleasant, as he is widely read in occult literature, knows innumerable people. But he withheld from me the fact that he was all the time a follower of Achad's, and, with him, against certain parts or verses of The Book of the Law. My relations with him have cooled since about a year. I gave always considered him the pure intellectual type with hardly any mystical or spiritual insight. From Achad, with whom he seems to have frequent relations, he seems to have learnt the habit to criticise and interpret verses of AL 220 in similar ways as Achad does in some of his letters and communications. I never took it serious before. But I do now.
Any shipments of A.C. material you send over should be addressed to me at my New York address. The shipping broker will get in touch with me for customs purposes, and I may have to present myself. Then is the proper time for me to make arrangements for sending it to Pennsylvania by truck (van).
I am most anxious to take possession of that house in Pennsylvania which I hope I can by July 1st. By that time also, I hope Symonds has finished his book and the remainder of the library material can be shipped over. It seems to take several months before such shipments arrive from England, and have passed through all the routine formalities at this end. The case of sheets has not been advised at the Customs yet.
Sincerely,
Karl Germer.
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