tion of the Soûl to express its Truth, in Ecstasy, through Beauty; 
and that no Sport rivais its fascinations of danger and delight, so 
excites, exercises, and tests its devotees to the uttermost, or so 
rewards them by well-being, pride, and the passionate pleasures of 
Personal triumph. 
“Magick takes every thought and act for ifs apparatus; it has 
the Universe for its Library and its Laboratory; ail Nature is its 
Subject; and its Game, free from close seasons and protective 
restrictions, always abounds in infinité variety, being ail that 
exists.* 1 
Prologue.) of being forced to attribute the qualities of human conscious- 
ness to inanimate things (Poincaré, “La mesure du temps”), and of 
asserting that we know anything of the universe in itself, though the 
nature of oui senses and our minds necessanly détermines our observations, 
so that the limit of our knowledge is subjective, just as a thermometer 
can record nothing but its own reaction to one particular type of Energy. 
Magick recognizes frankly (i) that truth is relative, subjective, and 
apparent; (2) that Truth implies Omniscience, which is unattainable by 
mind, being transfînite; just as if one tried to malce an exact map of 
Engiand in England, that map must contain a map of the map, and so 
on, ad infinitum; (3) that logical contradiction is inhérent in reason, 
(Russell,^“Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy”, p. 136; Crowley, 
Eleusis , and elsewhere); (4) that a Continuum requires a Continuum 
to be commensurable with it: (5) that Empiricism is inéluctable, and 
therefore that adjustment is the only possible method of action; and (6) 
that error may be avoided by opposing no résistance to change, and 
registering observed phenomena in their own language. 
1. The elasticity of Magick makes it equal to ail possible kinds of 
environment, and therefore biologically perfect. “Do what thou wilt” 
implies self-adjustment, so that failure cannot occur. One’s true Will 
is necessarily fitted to the whole Universe with the utmost exactitude, 
because each term in the équation a + b+c=0 must be equal and 
opposite to the sum of ail the other terms. No individual can ever be 
aught than himself, or do aught else than his Will, which is his necessary 
relation with his environment, dynamically considered. Ail error is no 
more than an illusion proper to him to dissipate the mirage, and it is a 
general law that the method of accomplishing this operation is to realize, 
and to acquiesce in, the order of the Universe, and to refrain from 
attempting the impossible task of overcoming the inertia of the forces 
which oppose, and therefore are identical with, one’s self. Error in 
thought is therefore failure to understand, and in action to perform 
one s own true Will. F 
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