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Magick Without Tears
Magick Without Tears (1954), PDF p. 120
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THREE SCHOOLS OF MAGICK (3)
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openly that they have triumphed all along the line. Their
formula has attained the destruction of all positive qualities.
It is only one step to the stage when the annihilation of all
life and thought will appear as a fatal necessity. The
materialism and vital scepticism of the present time, its
frenzied rush for pleasure in total disregard of any idea of
building for the future, testifies to a condition of complete
moral disorder, of abject spiritual anarchy.
The White School has thus been paralysed. We are
reminded of the spider described by Fabre, who injects her
victims with a poison which paralyzes them without killing
them, so that her own young may find fresh meat. And this is
what is going to happen in Europe and America unless
something is done about it, and done in very short order.
The Yellow School could not remain impassive spectators
of the abominations. Madame Blavatsky was a mere
forerunner. They, in conjunction with the Secret Chiefs of
the White School in Europe, Chiefs who had been compelled
to suspend all attempts at exoteric enlightenment by the
general moral debility which had overtaken the races from
which they drew their adepts, have prepared a guide for
mankind. This man, of an extreme moral force and elevation,
combined with a profound sense of worldly realities, has
stood forth in an attempt to save the White School, to
rehabilitate its formula, and to fling back from the bastions
of moral freedom the howling savages of pessimism. Unless
his appeal is heard, unless there comes a truly virile reaction
against the creeping atrophy which is poisoning them, unless
they enlist to the last man under his standard, a great decisive
battle will have been lost.
This prophet of the White School, chosen by its Masters
and his brethren, to save the Theory and Practice, is armed
with a sword far mightier than Excalibur. He has been
entrusted with a new Magical formula, one which can be
accepted by the whole human race. Its adoption will
strengthen the Yellow School by giving a more positive value
to their Theory; while leaving the postulates of the Black
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