Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

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 - XXVI