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Correspondence from Gerald Yorke to Charles Stansfeld Jones
3 July 1948
Dear Jones,
Your 28/6/48. You have at last come out definitely in favour of obscurantism. I am beginning to appreciate the last page of A.C.'s Thumbs Up, which gives a list of names in connection with AL III 42. The list begins "De Wend Fenton, bankruptcy, general collapse" and ends "Charles Stansfeld Jones, went mad, joined R.C. Church". It would not surprise me if a notice to the following effect appeared in the preface to the Life. "Much valuable manuscript material has been withheld by Charles Stansfeld Jones of Vancouver, known to the Brethren as Frater Achad, for fear hat reference to them would prove discreditable to 'his magical Sire'. It is significant that one of the few openly to proclaim that the Word of the Law is Thelema, and that Liber AL vel Legis is the 'Holy Book of the Aeon', should be afraid to make some of these diaries available for study. Such obscurantism is remarkable in one who claims that he is Crowley's spiritual successor, although Crowley himself disowned him when he joined the Roman Catholic Church".
Since it is your will not to send any more material to help with the Life, I will not refer to the matter again. Once however that the Life has been published, I shall return to the subject from the point of view of getting together as complete a collection as possible for presentation to the British Museum.
With regard to your wish that I should not show Liber 31 to anyone—a wish I propose to respect—have you any objection to the purely qabalistic section being shown to a serious student? By that I mean I would copy out the small portion which is interpretive of AL, and would omit the major part which describes your personal experiences.
Yours,
[holograph note:] P.S. Many thanks for copy of the Will dated 1905. I shall recommend John [John Symonds] to reproduce it together with the other two holograph Wills in my possession. One of them is as remarkable as yours. It is interesting that there is no reference to the MSS of Liber Legis in your Will. Would you like copies of mine? I am always willing to reciprocate when it lies within my power.
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