Correspondence from Karl Germer to Phyllis Seckler

New York 23

April 1, 1952

Dear Phyllis,

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

Yours of March 22 arrived yesterday. Take your time to answer, I can well imagine that your time is fully taken up. In fact, I cannot see how you can cram all your personal, your school, and your childrens' work into a 24-hour day!

Your letters always please me. I have often told you that I have watched you ever since you first sent those sketches and caricatures of Winona Blvd types in. I am very glad indeed to see how you follow your true guide, and how naturally all your thoughts and actions, as well as your whole life spring sanely from this simple root. It is so rare to watch some aspirant grow like this. I don't see where I'd have to criticize, or even to find a dent so that I could raise an interesting argument. I am glad to have to say that there is no magical bond any more between you and R.L. [Roy Leffingwell]. Surely, he served as a rung to a ladder at that time. And surely others ought to follow to get up to another rung. Does perhaps Liber Ararita, of which you must have a stereotyped copy (otherwise I'd send you one) help you to further understand this idea, of where the magician experiences all types of experiences, and discards them, because ultimately he dissolves all of them into the thirteen rays of the Crown, and that Crown is ONE.

Have you read Heavenly Bridegrooms. I once sent my copy to the West Coast, but I never heard whether anybody had really found much in that book: by an American woman who describes her intercourse with her H.G.A. [Holy Guardian Angel] at length. The book appeared, I think, in 1917 and was highly commented upon by A.C. in the Blue Equ[inox]. May-be  Jane [Jane Wolfe] has a copy? This is only a suggestion to assist you in reading literature that can throw further light on that puzzling problem of the H.G.A., and Adonai. I tried to explain my point of view when I made those two lectures on LXV, and tried to show how LXV gives it under the two symbols of the Heart girt with the Serpent: there are two separate entities who together produce Adonai. The true contact of these two takes place on invisible planes. It is possible that in rare cases the twain meet in the physical body, but that is not necessary, for even if they do, they may not recognize each other as such, unless they both have risen to very high levels.

In the meantime the HGA sends messengers to train one in a particular job for which one has to become ripe, from time to time, who in themselves have no other purpose but just that, and should be discarded as the lesson is learnt. You understand this clearly, but it does no harm if I express the same idea in another form. You too understand that to "become normal, to become attached to one man etc." would, if satisfied, make you stagnant, and make a slave of you, rather than a Queen.

If it is true that you "love" now, I suggest you keep your magical diary all the more assiduously. For you never can tell when this may lead to a smaller or greater illumination when things are given to you and which you should carefully write down, even if they appear absurd at the moment, it may be years later that you begin gradually to understand the language A.C. received LXV and VII in 1905, I believe, but it took years to understand the books. I had a phase of this sort in 1927 and while in the Concentration Camp in 1935. The power of the HGA is unbelievable to absurd details. For instance: in the C.C. [Concentration Camp]. I was in solitary confinement. When the operation came to a climax I was changed to another cell with the # 175 (which in the German code is the paragraph concerning buggery: and, as you know, it is the HGA who takes the active role in that operation, the magician has to become a bride, and the HGA takes the active role and the Magician "was pierced as a thief by the lord of the garden" (LXV, IV, 40; see the commentary to this.) For you as a woman this is easier, as you have the yielding attitude by nature. Also: paper, ink, and a pen, or pencil had been taken away from every one. But when it became necessary that I had to keep a diary, I had all of these; they came to me in the most natural way, without a plan on my part. And there are other instances of the foresight, wisdom, and power of those four-dimensional beings. Trust them! Study this book with the Comment deeply, or, better, if you find the time, learn one chapter, and gradually the whole book by heart. You will thank me some time for this advice.

Do you have a copy of Liber Aleph? If not Jane can loan you hers.

Now to some prosaic things:—The Commentary to The Vision and the Voice consists of annotation, made by Frederic [Frederic Mellinger] in the copy of Vol. V of The Equinox to each verse or line, typewritten. I have one copy sent to me at the time by Yorke [Gerald Yorke] typed straight through, marking each marginal note with page, and line from top to bottom, numbered. It is a tedious way of finding a particular note, unless one adds the notes into one's personal copy of the Equ[inox]. V. volume. The whole should be about 45 pages typewritten.

Typing on Multigraph Masters is a simple matter. I enclose one half of an actual master. All one has to do is to type straight on the blue side (they have 2 types; one yellow, one blue; we shall use the yellow masters, as we will not have to make more than 25 or 50 copies; the yellow master can be used up to 250 copies!) You would also have to use a special ribbon, sold by the Local Multigraph-Addresograph distributor, which does not smudge and keeps the keys cleaner. Costs $1.50. A special eraser, costs 9 cents, and the master cost about 6.5 cents each if bought in lots of 100. Before you should do anything about this, ask me for the particular number of the masters, for they differ for different machines available.

All you have to do when you have finished is to send me the masters, and I'll get them run off here. (Unless there is a cheap local party available; it can be done anywhere in the US.)

As you see this is much easier typing than with umpteen carbons. Tell Jane about this plan. She may be able to enlist help from other parties who have sound suggestions. Our plan is only to get a goodly number of copies of A.C.'s works in as many hands as possible to preserve them from any catastrophe.

I wish I could see you again. We would have much to talk about. And I'd love to do it.

Love is the law, love under will.

Karl

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