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Correspondence from Gerald Yorke to Karl Germer
12 July 1948.
Dear Germer,
Your 30/6/48. Please add to my bibliography of official books LXX, The ceremony proper to obtaining a familiar spirit of a Mecurial Nature. MSS. (I have sent you a typescript of this.) XCVII. The Amalantrah Working. Part only in typescript. (In my collection).
I return Simmons' letter. I have never come across him.
I enclose for your collection a copy of the Manifesto To Man. I got two out of the Magic Circle. They will not part with the original MSS on a sheet of vellum nor with Liber VII.
Do give me details about A.C. having got the Stélé of Revealing itself many years ago". I was sure he had not done so, from the many references in letters and diaries that he was about to do so. In 1923 he wrote to Mudd [Norman Mudd] "At the time I satisfied my conscience by taking 'abstruction' as coalescing abstraction and construction. I therefore caused a construction of a replica, thus both taking it away and making a new thing. I now see that this was childish. I feel sure the word is vitally important. The two verses must indicate some terrific Magical operation". On several later occasions he was planning, or trying to raise money, to go to Cairo to get the original, but I am sure it never came off. Do please tell me how he came to get it after all.
Another batch of effects will be shipped shortly. Please note that the bound typescript of Liber Aleph contains in holograph on the reverse of the pages a large section of magical diary. I will include the Hopfer [Oskar Hopfer] diagrams if Frieda [Frieda Harris] returns to her flat in time for me to get them from her. Your final consignment will not be as bulky as this one.
I am sending you separately by parcel post the Yi King sticks, a Tree of Life tie pin made by Schneider [Max Schneider], and an Egyptian statuette mounted in gold, which I think given the old boy by Lord Tredaeger [Evan Morgan], who has since become a R.[oman] C.[atholic].
You will have heard from John [John Symonds] about the Hastings printer before you get this.
Kenneth Grant's wife [Steffi Grant], whom A.C. never saw, is I think as knowledgeable as Grant, while she is certainly as enthusiastic. She is a years or two younger than him. They are a very remarkable couple. I do not think that either of them are now tied to their parents.
Louis [Louis Wilkinson] has given me a cheque for half the expenses of the old shipment. Many thanks.
Jones [Charles Stansfeld Jones] writes me "The only other black note book I have contains the verses of Chapter I of Liber Legis with the brief beginnings of a second commentary thereunder in some instances. Every word therein is included in typescript to second Commentary which you have, together of course with much more. So there is nothing to send you on that score. The same applies to notes I have mentioned as crossed out in pencil and copies. These did survive. They were O.T.O. material which I know you have, and in as far as 'open', already published". All he has therefore which we do not have is two parts of The Diary of a Magus (in U.S.A.) which we have in a summarised form in The Urn. I doubt therefore whether it is worth going to law with him to get it.
I am sure John will not be finished before Xmas. Even so this is not bad going, considering that he works in the day time in the offices of Lilliput, a magazine of which he is literary editor.
It will take you some time to sort and catalogue properly the first two sections of the effects. You are getting in the second lot a number of folders with miscellaneous typescripts in them. You can no longer trust the list of contents on the outside of the folders in my handwriting. Any item not included will be in a third batch when we send it.
No hurry about the astrology typescript. If I had known of Grant at the time I would have got him to copy it.
Yours
Gerald Yorke
P.S. I have in my collection the Besant [Annie Besant] and Krishnamurti manifestoes [Madame Tussaud-Besant & Avenger to the Theosophical Society respectively], and one other [World Teacher to the Theosophical Society]. They are with John at the moment. Later when I get them back I will copy them for you.
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