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Correspondence from Karl Germer to Samuel Jacobs
Hampton N.J. P.O. Box 581
May 9, 1956.
Dear Mr. Jacobs:
I have just written to Mr. Kaplan [Phillip Kaplan] the explanation how I mislaid your addresses, and only this morning found them in a coat pocket of a suit that I had not used since we met!
I felt the need and urge to tell you how deeply the meeting with you had impressed me, and that after my return I had thousands of questions to ask you.
One was that 30 years ago or so I had heard that the name of Aiwass, or Aiwaz, was spelled or pronounced "Oive", but I have been unable to trace where I had found it. Another was to hear more from you on the "Djezdiz" or "Djesidi". When I was a kid, that is near 60 years ago, there was a very popular German author by the name of Karl May who had written countless travel books, one or two of them dealt with Persia, Kurdistan, and that part. He spoke of the Djedisi and despite that fact that this is 60 years ago, and I have never since looked at those books again, it is so peculiar that the mysterious name remained in the back of my mind! Is there a body of high initiates among them? I'm sure Crowley, when you met him, had lots of questions to you.
The letters that you have from Crowley may be of the greatest historical importance. Do please make an effort to find all of them, and either mail them for copying to Gerald Yorke or to me. If you want, they will be returned to you safely. All questions concerning the history and the spiritual background of The Book of the Law will at some later time be of great importance.
With my kindest regards, I remain for to-day,
Yours sincerely
Karl Germer.
My address till June 4 is here.
After that letters will reach me at 601 Frances Drive Barstow, California.
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