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Correspondence from Charles Stansfeld Jones to Gerald Yorke
29 June 1948
Dear Yorke,
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law!
I think it is rather confusing for you suddenly to introduce the term "guru" into this correspondence. You have no knowledge whatever as to who may or may not have stood to me in that capacity, and it is obviously none of your business. But, insofar as this term may have been used in reference to A.C. in my regard, in a loose and inaccurate sense, please take note as follows.
My career in the A∴A∴ began under Frater Per Ardus [J.F.C. Fuller], to whose discipline I owe a great deal, and continued later under Frater O∴M∴ from whom I received much valuable service free of all financial cost, for which I shall always be grateful. This relationship continued until June 1916 at the Summer Solstice. At that time I undertook to pay my magical debt to O.M. in full; this involved giving up all that I had and was, so far as it was humanly possible to do so, and included the definite act, which is of record, of giving up the Master Himself, viz: completely dissolving my relationship with him. This relationship has never since been renewed. At that time O.M. had not become Therion 9º=2o I have never in any sense been under Therion as a "guru" or in any other sense. I have given him that courtesy title when referring to him as an official of the A∴A∴, but never in any sense as "my" Master. My career in the A∴A∴ has since 1916 been an independent one, with full right to agree or disagree, support or otherwise any action or policy which may from time to time have been that of Therion. Please, therefore, do not in my regard use expressions such as "denying my guru" if thereby you mean A.C. or Therion. I shall never deny any real relationship I may have had with Frater O.M., and what these relationships were is more or less shown in my diaries for that period and in correspondence with him not in your possession.
While it is truly none of your business, I am rather shocked at your words "denying your guru, as I myself have done". My good brother, you alone know what you meant by those words, but you may not realize as clearly as I do the consequences of an unpaid magical debt, supposing you to have accepted from A.C. (or another) without having been prepared to pay in full for what you received—or perhaps, later, grabbed. The only thing I might ask is that you be careful not to spoil the budding career of another, such as J.S. [John Symonds] in the course of trying to fulfil your own ambitions.
Yours in Unity and Love,
Achad.
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