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Correspondence from Karl Germer to Jane Wolfe
K.J. Germer 260 West 72nd Street New York 23, N.Y. Endicott 2-6799
April 20, 1950
Dear Jane,
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law!
Your letters of April 12, 16, and 17, with enclosures from Yorke [Gerald Yorke] which I return herewith.
LXV: May-be perfect outsiders ought to pay $10? What do you think?
Jack Parsons: Your explanation re his nature was new, but very enlightening.
Liber VII: Only those few vv 20-29 in Cap. V?? To help you with one little angle: Cap. II, vv. 13-20 brings a close description of the geography of the place where A.C. first met me in Thuringia; a close description of the scenery and the persons and the people (toads and cats, ye slimy things, the 'full moon'). Circuit of pines; tall yews beyond. When first reading the book I was bowled over, rejected it, until all the rest of the book began to give me real insight, and made me drunk. Some day, I'll have to write my Commentary, the one that A.C. never dared write, which can be published after my death. (Please keep this under your hat!) Similar remarks refer to LXV. The 'Preliminary Analysis' was written by A.C. in 1923. Since then very much light has been shed on so much of it. Again: it may be up to me to write a Commentary on the book some day.—No one else could do it. But you ought to be able to penetrate quite a lot from your knowledge.
I am under the firm conviction that we are heading towards very big magical events, or rather outer events of which the magical pressure on some Thelemites are but a forewarning. Still, one can say also that the whole period through which we are living is nothing but one big crisis, without beginning or end.
Women (your query on April 16). Read the 'Letters'[1] concerning 'Woman', and some others whose title I forget now. They give the formula of her method of working. ('Family', in part also).—Contrary to the American conception which has invented the fact that American woman are 'pure', resent 'sex', don't have any such 'dirty' desires, and that wicked, dirty, low, Man is only full of desire, sex, and therefore 'rape' etc. etc., the experience and the philosophy of other races and countries, are just opposite. The nature of Woman is to crave for fulfilment of her vacuum with an intensity that only few men can come up with her; so they use other means, in addition to normal, to prevent arising hysteria from lack of satisfaction. Why is Hysteria so prevalent in the U.S.A.? Why do women drink so much? Why can Americans only go to bed after having a load of booze first? It is all so funny.—But I think RHK [Ra Hoor Khuit] is on the job to remedy this.
Sascha [Sascha Germer] gets the most enlightening and frightening confidences from her U.S. female acquaintances. It took her years to obtain an understanding of this—to her—perfectly unknown behaviorism. She knows women who tell her to refuse herself to me and learn the American way, so that the husband pays a higher price!!! 'Oh! You European women don't know how to treat a man!!!' How abject all this is.
But it is the fault of the American men! They think they are very virile, because they fight among each other, think they are tough, and all the rest: but before their wimmin folk they crawl! The Sun has to dominate the Moon; the dog has to wag the tail; not vice versa. Right now you have these vice snoopers in L.A. A thing unheard of in a civilised country.
I hope Ero [Ero Sihvonen] is going to write me about his reaction to Roy [Roy Leffingwell]. He seems to have a surprising sensibility.—I hope Jean [Jean Sihvonen] is getting through the phase in which she is. The trouble is no one can advise her.
"Letters": Let's wait a little. I have proposed to Watt [Alexander Watt] to do them next, but being a very big job (450-500 pages), the resolution must grow slowly, I'm afraid he could only do it if we pay a good typist. The whole expense will be terrific. Typing—as you can only do 5 at a time, is unsatisfactory. Right now I'd need several sets.
Why do you feel trapped because of Yorke's article? Tell him straight that I sent you a copy, and say frankly what you think of it.
I leave it to you to act as you think best. He has help to make copies, so if you send him yours on load to return them with a copy for me—well and good.—Yorke is doing a really magnificent job. Very much that I would never have seen were dug up by him and he sent me copies.
Try your best to get on the right side of Bayley [James Gilbert Bayley], but don't mention me.
Keep your girl that'd do some typing on ice. One never knows.
My foot is healing very gradually; you must know that such a thing is merely a matter of patience. But it handicaps me awfully. I can't make progress in cataloguing the files as I'd have to go from file to file and from shelf to shelf. It requires much work to make one set of Magick Without Tears completely ready, collating, findings meanings mistakes, omissions, etc. etc.—and finally to make one or two copies. I think there are now some 85 'Letters' in all.
Love is the law, love under will.
Ever yours, with love from Sascha,
Karl
Is there still a possibility that you might be able to contemplate a stay here?
1—This refers to the collection of correspondence which would later be published as Magick Without Tears.
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