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The Law is for All
private instruction and developed by personal practice. The crude 
description is a bare framework, and (even so) more often 
misleads than not.
But the general rule is to arrange all the conditions beforehand 
with intent to facilitate the manifestation of the thing willed, and 
to prevent the dangers of abortion by eliminating discordant 
elements.
For instance: a man seeking to regain health should assist his 
Magical Will by taking all possible hygienic and medical measures 
proper to amend his malady. A man wishing to develop his genius 
as a sculptor will devote himself to study and training, will sur­
round himself with beautiful forms, and, if possible, live in a place 
where nature herself testifies to the touch of the thumb of the 
Great Architect.
He will choose the object of his passion at the nod of his Silent 
Self. He will not allow the prejudice, either of sense, emotion, or 
rational judgment, to obscure the Sun of his Soul. In the first 
place, mutual magnetism, despite the masks of mind, should be 
unmistakable. Unless it exists, a puissant purity of passion, there 
is no Magical basis for the Sacrament. Yet, such magnetism is 
only the first condition. Where two people become intimate, each 
crisis of satisfaction between the terminals leaves them in a prox­
imity which demands mutual observation; and the intense clarity 
of the mind which results from the discharge of the electric force 
makes such observation abnormally critical. The higher the type 
of mind, the more certain this is, and the greater the danger of 
finding some antipathetic trifle which experience tells us will one 
day be the only thing left to observe; just as a wart on the nose is 
remembered when the rest of the face is forgotten.
The object of Love must therefore be one with the lover in 
something more than the Will to unite magnetically; it must be in 
passionate partnership with the Will of which the Will-to-love is 
only the Magical symbol. Perhaps no two wills can be identical, 
but at least they can be so sympathetic that the manifestations are 
not likely to clash. It is not enough to have a partner of the pas­
sive type who bleats “Thy will be done”—that ends in contempt, 
boredom and distrust. One wants a passion that can blend with