Cara Soror, 
7 
The Three Schools of Magick 
(2) 
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 
Hoping that you are now recovered from the devastating 
revelations in the matter of the Yellow School, I must ask 
you to brace yourself for disclosures even more formidable 
about the Black. Do not confuse with the Black Lodge, or 
the Black Brothers. The terminology is unfortunate, but it 
wasn't I that did it. Now then, to work! 
The Black School of Magick, which must by no means be 
confused with the School of Black Magick or Sorcery, which 
latter is a perversion of the White tradition, is distinguished 
fundamentally from the Yellow School in that it considers 
the Universe not as neutral, but as definitely a curse. Its 
primary 
theorem 
is the 'First Noble Truth' 
of the 
Buddha- "Everything is Sorrow." In the primitive classics of 
this School the idea of sorrow is confused with that of sin. 
(This idea of universal lamentation is presumably responsible 
for the choice of black as its symbolic colour. And yet? Is 
not white the Chinese hue of mourning?) 
The analysis of the philosophers of this School refers every 
phenomenon to the category of sorrow. It is quite useless to 
point out to them that certain events are accompanied with 
joy: they continue their ruthless calculations, and prove to 
your satisfaction, or rather dissatisfaction , that the more 
apparently 
pleasant an event is, the more malignantly 
deceptive is its fascination . There is only one way of escape 
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