CHAPTER VI
THE WAND
THE
Magical
Will
is in its essence
twofold,
for
it
presupposes
a
beginning
and
an end;
to will
to be a thing
is to admit
that
you
are not that thing.
Hence
to will
anything
but
the
supreme
thing,
is
to
wander
still
further
from
it— any will but that to give up
the
self to the
Beloved
is Black
Magick —yet
this
surrender
is so simple
an act
that to our complex
minds
it is the most difficult
of all acts;
and
hence
training
is necessary.
Further,
the Self surrendered
must
not
be
less
than
the All-Self;
one
must
not
come
before
the
altar of the Most
High
with
an
impure
or
an
imperfect
offering.
As
it
is written
in
Liber LXV, "To await Thee is the end, not the beginning."
This
training
may
lead
through
all
sorts of complications,
varying
according
to the
nature of the student,
and
hence it may be necessary
for him
at any moment
to will all sorts of things
which
to others
might
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