them to find their own paths and pursue them. Every man that 
becomes a Magician helps others to do likewise. The more firrnly 
and surely men move, and the more such action is accepted as the 
standard of morality, the less will conflict and confusion hamper 
humanity. ) 
I hope that the above principles will ciemonstrate to 
ALL 
that their welfare, their very existence, is bound up in 
MAGICK. 
I trust that they will understand, not only the reasonableness, but 
the necessity of the fundamental truth which I was the means of 
giving to mankind: 
“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.” 
I trust that they will assert themselves as individually absolute, that 
they will grasp the fact that it is their right to assert themselves, and 
to accomplish the task for which their nature fits them. Yea, more, 
that this is their duty, and that not only to themselves but to 
others, a duty founded upon universal necessity, and not to be 
shirked on account of any casual circumstances of the moment which 
may seem to put such conduct in the light of inconvenience or even 
of cruelty. 
I hope that the principles outlined above will help them to 
understand this book, and prevent them from being deterred from 
its study by the more or less technical language in which it is 
written. 
The essence of 
MAGICK 
is simple enough in ail conscience. It is not otherwise with the art 
of government. The Aim is simply prosperity; but the theory is 
tangled, and the practice beset with briars. 
In the same wav 
MAGICK 
is merely to be and to do. I should add: ato suffer”. For Magick 
is the verbj and it is part of the Training to use the passive voice. 
This is, however, a matter of Initiation rather than of Magick in 
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