... he made a vague gesture, as if urging us to exercise greater discretion. "Forgive me," he said, "I don't know wether you gentlemen are interested in the subject purely from a professional, commercial standpoint, or whether you are connected with any mystical group . . ."
   We reassured him on that point.
  "Perhaps I am being excessively cautious," he said, "but I do not wish to have anything to do with a member of the OTO." Seeing our puzzlement, he added: "Ordo Templi Orientis, the conventicle of the remaining self-styled followers of Aleister Crowley. . . . I see that you are not connected. . . . All the better: there will be no prejudices on your side." He agreed to sit down. "Because, you understand, the work I would now like to show you takes a courageous stand against Crowley. All of us, myself included, are still faithful to the revelations of the Liber AL vel legis, which, as you probably know, was dictated to Crowley in Cairo in 1904 by a higher intelligence named Aiwaz..."