Frieda Harris - After Crowley

After Crowley

Frieda Harris had plans to do a lecture tour in the United States and exhibit the original paintings of the Thoth tarot deck in the fall of 1948, but this never materialised.

After her husband's death in 1952, Frieda Harris moved to India. She died in Srinagar on 11 May 1962. She bequeathed the original paintings of her Tarot cards to fellow Thelemite Gerald Yorke, who in turned placed them with the Warburg Institute along with much other Crowley material that he had collected over the years. However, Yorke retained several alternative versions of the cards and some preliminary studies, which he later sold through the Cecil Court bookdealer Harold Mortlake.

Her legacy can be found in a later reprinting of The Book of Thoth:

May the passionate "love under will" which she has stored in this Treasury of Truth and Beauty flow forth from the Splendour and Strength of her work to enlighten the world; may this Tarot serve as a chart for the bold seamen of the New Aeon, to guide them across the Great Sea of Understanding to the City of the Pyramids!