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Correspondence from Charles Stansfeld Jones to Gerald Yorke
30 May 1948
Care Frater V∴I∴
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law!
I have just received yours of 29/4/48 by slow mail together with comment on Liber LXV and copy of The Constitution of the Order of Thelemites. Very many thanks. I shall greatly enjoy study of the LXV commentary.
You say "You will see by par. I. b. that A.C. regarded the Word of the Aeon transmitted by Aiwas—presumably the word THELEMA—as paramount." I take it that you refer to the statement "The Word of the Law is Thelema". This is a quotation from Liber Legis I.39. It is quite clear. You really do seem a little mixed-up about this Word business.
If you will refer to page 7 of the MS. on LXV you have just sent me, you will find at least one point cleared up: "There is a quite different reference to the Equinox of the Gods, ABRAHADABRA, the Magical Formula of the Aeon (not to be confused with the Word of the Law of the Aeon) . . ." Neither the word of the Formula, nor the Word of the Law of the Aeon, is the "Word" under discussion in our correspondence.
You say of "The Constitution . . .": "This document records the revision of the A∴A∴ to accord with the Aeon of Horus." The document says nothing of the kind. It refers to the A∴A∴ as something quite other, and says that members of The Order of Thelemites shall in certain respects be trained as pass the tests of the A∴A∴, and so on. My own training and Grades were and are of the A∴A∴ I have also certain functions in relation to Liber Legis and the Law of Thelema. But I have never joined, or become in any way responsible for, the Order of Thelemites, as outlines in the Constitution which I have now read for the first time. This, and all connected with it, as a special "Order" and "Constitution", is clearly, by what you tell me, the affair of Saturnus [Karl Germer]. (Although, lacking a copy of A.C.'s Will, I do not know whether specific mention is made therein.) We must wait and see what he does about it. It is for Saturnus, not me, to decide whether he thinks such matters abrogate or not.
Yours in Love and Unity,
Jones.
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