pantacle may be a necklace} to discover a treasure, one’s wand 
may be a dramatisas pen, or one’s incantation a popular song. 
Many ends, many means: it is only important to remember the 
essence of the operation, which is to will its success with suffi- 
ciently pure intensity, and to incarnate that will in a body suitable 
to express it, a body such that its impact on the bodily expression 
of the idea one wills to change is to cause it to do so. For 
instance, is it my will to become a famous physician? I banish 
ail “hostile spirits” such as laziness, alien interests, and conflicting 
pleasures, from my “circle” the hospital} J. consecrate my 
“weapons” (my various abilities) to the study of medicine} I 
invoke the “Gods” (medical authorities) by studying and obeying 
their laws in their books. I embody the “Formulae” (the ways in 
which causes and effects influence disease) in a “Ritual” (my 
Personal style of constraimng sickness to conform with my will). 
I persist in these conjurations year after year, making the Magical 
gestures of healing the sick, until I compel the visible appearance 
of the Spirit of Time, and make him acknowledge me his master. 
I hâve used the appropriate kind of means, in adéquate measure, 
and applied them in ways pertinent to my purpose by projecting 
my incorporeal idea of ambition in a course of action such as to 
induce in others the incorporeal idea of satisfying mine. I made 
my Will manifest to sense} sense swayed the Wills of my fellow- 
meii} mind wrought on mind through matter. 
I did not “sit for” a medical baronetcy by wishing I had it, or 
by an “act of faith”, or by praying to God “to move Pharaoh’s 
heart”, as our modem mental, or our mediaeval, mystic, miracle- 
mongers were and are muddlers and maudlin enough to advise 
us to do. 
A few general observations on the Magical Link may not be 
amiss, in default of details} one cannot make a Manual of How 
to Go Courting, with an Open-Sesame to each particular Brigand’s 
Cavern, any more than one can furnish a budding burglar with a 
directory containing the combination of every existing safe. But 
one can point out the broad distinctions between women who yield, 
some to flattery, some to éloquence, some to appearance, some to 
rank, some to wealth, some to ardour, and some to authority. We