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Correspondence from James Gilbert Bayley to Karl Germer
[7 January 1950]
Care Frater Saturnus.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Thanks for your letter of the 13th ulto. I don't want to engage in any long rigmarole about Crowley.
Your long consideration of my last letter has misled you.
There is one tag as true today as ever it was, and that is 'Actions speak louder than words'. When you are judging a man whether he claims to be a spiritual teacher or otherwise, that is the touchstone by which he can be proved. Words, words, words: Crowley wrote millions, but what has his actions throughout his life shown?
I have know him a ling time, since 1909, and the time of the Rites of Eleusis. I have known a great number of people who were connected with him. I knew Fuller [J.F.C. Fuller], the man who wrote the Essay on Crowley's poetry [The Star in the West] etc. which won the prize of 100, but he was never paid.
Neuburg [Victor B. Neuburg]: he put much money, all he had as a matter of fact, into Crowley's projects, and he never received a 1/2d back; this was the cause of his break with Crowley.
George Raffalovich: the same applies in his case.
H.E. Inman [Herbert E. Inman]: in his words 'Crowley was a cad'. He loaned him money, and when he fell on straightened times he wanted it back. Did he get any of it? You know the answer to that. His request was dismissed, his letter was not even acknowledged; and he did not even send him a parcel of useless and unsaleable books as he sent to Sir Gerald Kelly in payment of a loan he had made to Crowley.
Edward Ward: he went to Burma, but was on tenterhooks lest Crowley should try to touch him for an unsecured loan before he sailed.
Leila Waddell: the violinist and an Australian who went to America, whom Crowley followed hoping to live on her earnings. She was a good violinist. She had lived with him and knew him.
Mr. and Mrs. Hammond [Benjamin Charles Hammond]: Mr. Hammond the engrave of the plates for the O.T.O. diplomas who never received a 1/2d for the material labour and his pains, whose best plush chairs Crowley plastered with his excreta.
I could go on reeling off dozens of other people who had despicable, abominable, criminal tricks played on them by that scoundrel.
Love is the law, love under will.
Yours Fraternally
L.O.V.
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