The Rosicrucian Scandal

land So and So have been to my flat and passed the night” 1 Suggest that the names mentioned were those of mutual friends of Crowley and Berridge, men beyond suspicion, Maries. It may have been so. Sconrio, K.C, Andthat Crowley added, implicitly or explicitly: “ts that any reason for making such abominable charges?” Maruins. Perhaps. Scorpio, K.C, I must ask you to remember that Crowley was brought up among the Plymouth Brethren, and thatat this time he nad no more knowledge of the world than most boys of 16, He swallowed your yarns easily enough, didn't he? Mavuirs. He did Sconrio, KC. Now take the second part. “For the last ieen months or two years there has been nothing that the police could get at me for.” ‘That implies that previous to that date there was something? Marans. Undoubtedly. Sconrio, K.C, Let me read you this passage from Crowley's works Vol. I, p. 115, published in 1903 Sonnets...... To the author of the phrase “Lam not a gentleman, andI have no friends.” T need not continue. But I will read the footnote of Mr. Ivor Back, FRCS, the Editor : atid tna Ce nn wh Pe at It is clear from this that Crowley bad been associated with a ‘man of bad character ; but thaton discovering him to be so, he instantly disowned his ? Maruers. Yes, Scowri0, KC. Mr. Crowley may have thought that even an mocent association with such a person was criminal? Maries, “He was very young and foolish Scourio, KC. It is this that he referred to in his remark to Dr. Berridge? Mavuns. May be. Scowvi0, K.C. ‘The date tallies 2 {@) he pom (ao the foutote) as ft pine in 85, tai trae ofthe sles inate" o ery