Correspondence from Jane Wolfe to Karl Germer

 

     

 

5169 1/2 Fountain Avenue

Los Angeles, 27, California

 

 

April 17, 1950

 

 

Dear Karl:

     

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

 

LXV arrived this a.m., per express. Slower than parcel post, which Watt [Alexander Watt] said he would use. The binding is splendid.

     

My doldrums have disappeared, and I am giving the credit to LXV. And I now ask about the "Letters"[1] yet to be copied, those not heretofore read by us. You said there were such. I could do them by easy stages. Also I am taking up pranayama again, in not less than 5-min. periods to start. Little enough, but when I wake at night I can take 10 minutes. "Your life depends on your breathing" meant to me, at the time, better and more full breathing than I was in the habit of doing. Could it also mean more than physical life?

     

A letter from Yorke [Gerald Yorke], which I enclose. Please return. In sending The Law I made a short comment on Yorke's article in the little magazine, saying I could accept criticism of the man Crowley, as folks could not understand, but that I was disappointed in the Sunday Supplement reporter as I had expected a biographer. I did not let out a squeak about his article, so now, as you see, I am trapped. I shall write Bayley [James Gilbert Bayley]—no more than a friendly note, however; mebbe I can start a bit of a thaw.

     

I am acknowledging receipt of LXV to Watt by this post.

 

Love is the law, love under will.

 

Love, health, and wealth,

 

Jane

 

P.S. Strikes me I've taken over the Jones [Charles Stansfeld Jones] act of pelting folks with letters.

 

 

1—This refers to the collection of correspondence which would later be published as Magick Without Tears.

 

 

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