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seem
unconnected
with
the goal.
Thus it is not a priori obvious
why a
billiard player
should
need a file.
Since,
then, we
may want
anything^
let us
see
to it
that
our will is
strong enough
to obtain
anything
we want without
loss of time.
It is therefore
necessary to develop the will to its high-
est point, even though the last task but one is the total sur-
render of this will.
Partial surrender
of an imperfect
will is of no
account
in Magick.
The
will
being
a
lever,
a
fulcrum
is necessary;
this
fulcrum
is the
main
aspiration
of the
student
to attain.
All wills
which
are
not de-
pendent
upon
this principal will are so many leakages ; they are like fat
to the athlete.
The majority
of the people
in this world
are ataxic;
they cannot
co-
ordinate
their
mental
muscles
to make
a purposed
movement.
They
have no real will,
only
a set of wishes, many of which
contradict
others.
The
victim
wobbles
from
one to the
other
(and it is no less wobbling
because
the movements
may
occasionally
be very violent)
and
at
the
end of life the
movements
cancel
each
other
out.
Nothing
has
been
achieved;
except the one
thing
of which
the
victim
is not
conscious:
the destruction
of his own character,
the confirming
of indecision.
Such
an one is torn limb from limb by Choronzon.
How then
is the will to be trained?
All these wishes, whims,
caprices.