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Krotona Institute
of Theosophy

Ojai, California
Oct. 15, 1930. 

My dear Little Movie Actress,

Are you sure the Germans did not charge you correctly? Perhaps you are not on the screens, but you, with your broad viewpoints of life and your enquiring mind, may be more useful to that movie world occultly than you know.

I enjoyed your two letters greatly. I wish you would put what you have said about A.B and C.W.L into an article. Yours is a beautiful viewpoint. Not only does their hallowed natures show forth in their faces, but think how posterity will exhalt and extol their very remarkable work. These two personages belong to the future, and I agree with you that their critics look very petty. 

You might write another article, my dear, entitled Meditation and Slander. It is a very striking title, and what you say on that subject could be elaborated by you into a [[crossed out]] poignant [[crossed out]] article with the object of waking the slander up to his hypocrisy. 

Most heartily do I agree with you on the sense of beauty that you feel in Europe. This also could become a good comparative subject for an article, looked at from this standpoint: This beauty and polish that you see was inherited from old, old Asia and has been developed in a Europe that is now old. Thus there has been the inheritance from an almost timeless past and long centuries in the making of that beauty that we see. But in America there is still something more beautiful- the beauty of youth; the beauty of joy in pioneer work; the beauty of enthusiasm that is born of the hope of building a still greater civilization. Compare these two things, my dear, for the benefit of Americans and they will be less and less inclined to turn themselves into a lot of apes. 

Here is just a thought for you. Everybody should not have the occult viewpoint: only certain ones. Life is a game  of blind man's bluff. When you can peep through the blindfold, there is no more fun in the game. 

The method of Stanislousk is strikingly interesting. I am glad you mentioned it. 

I thank you greatly for bringing the instrument over to me. What you say about the Customs Officers is extremely amusing. Please let me know what the duty was. I hope you did not have too much trouble. I suppose you will come up to spend the week-end at Krotona sometime and let us talk things over? Then, no doubt, the little instrument can accompany you.