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Correspondence from Charles Stansfeld Jones to Gerald Yorke
16 June 1948
Dear Yorke,
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law!
Yours of 10/6/48 arrived yesterday. There is really no special need for reply since most important points are answered in other letters you will have received by now. But there are one or two points which might well be taken up; so here goes.
No matter how many additional "Comments" may be found, written in between times, the END results remain the same. I think the very brief "Comment" is the final one, and is that referred to by Germer [Karl Germer]. (Of course, if G.[ermer] were reasonable, one could ask him to explain what he did mean: perhaps you could ask.)
The point I AM interested in is: Have you anything to account for A.C.'s writing that brief comment? Can you account for his complete change of attitude towards life, and for his later diaries showing no further magical work? (That is, from such evidence as is before you?). Please spare time to answer this.
In regard to your offer of various further "commentaries" etc. and your questions. I have nearly 400 pages of the long set—which I see is not nearly all of it. But I don't really want or need any more just now. Am glad to know you have it, though—and other items you mentioned previously.
The real point is this. There can only be one true world-view; there can be thousands and thousands of more or less false ones. In intervening years I believe that I received from other hands a world-view which is at least nearer to the true one than anything A.C. ever got by his methods. Therefore I shall naturally prefer to try and transmit the best I have to others, and can see no good reason for filling their minds, or my own, with that which I can clearly see to be illusory—however fascinating—such as A.C. produced. He, himself, seems to have realized this danger and "cut it out" to some extent by means of "Comment". But I am fully convinced that his magical formula was not the best one; so it failed him—and will fail those who try to copy it.
I feel that I have done my "chores" in getting out of the magical web into which I was "caught". The puzzles of Liber Legis are solved so far as I am concerned. I know quite well what I went through, and how I got out. I know the personal numerical formula which worked. That cannot be duplicated by another. But the same proportions can be used for more general purposes—these I have indicated and freely given, even to Saturnus [Karl Germer]. I also know the inner magical formula used, and the various stages by which it was arrived at. This, I know, is valuable. For the moment there is no means of transmitting it without building a New Mystery School and devising a whole set of new rituals. The old ones will not lead to it—for I am certain A.C. did not have it. But if we have entered a really New Cycle, this re-building may not be necessary.
If people are allowed and encouraged to DO their true wills—or what they think to be such—they may automatically be led by Divine Guidance to discover the special formula most suited to their need and satisfaction. This, time will show.
This same argument applies to the question of any further qabalistic workings, such as you point out. It is true that we could go into any number of ramifications and use prime numbers and multiples, etc. etc., but the fact is that the few simple numbers and combinations actually needed to solve the problem of Liber Legis, were discovered and applied and have worked, and so—that's that. Further work won't change the fact. I hope my "number and letter" worries are over—at least for the present. Also you and Handel [Albert H. Handel] have all my workings in writing. What's to be gained by working out further combinations to "solve" what already has been solved? The thing now, is to get down to essentials—to cast off the remaining "fetters" and step out on the Open Road.
Your in Unity and Love,
Achad.
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