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System of the O.T.O. 
Cara Soror, 
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 
You inform me that the Earnest Inquirer of your ambit 
has been asking you to explain the difference between the 
A:. A:. and the O.T.O.; and that although your own mind is 
perfectly clear about it, you find it impossible to induce a 
similar lucidity in his. You add that he is not (as one might at 
first suppose) a moron. And will I please do what I can about 
it? 
Well, here's the essential difference ab ovo usque ad mala: 
the A:. A:. concerns the individual, his development, his 
initiation, his passage from "Student" to "Ipsissimus"; he has 
no contact of any kind with any other person except the 
Neophyte who introduces him, and any Student or Students 
whom he may, after becoming a Neophyte , introduce. 
The details of this "Pilgrim's Progress" are very fully set 
forth in One Star in Sight; and I should indeed be stupid and 
presumptuous to try to do better than that. But it is true that 
with regard to the O.T.O. there is no similar manual of 
instruction . In the Manifesto, 
and other Official 
Pronunciamenti, there are, it is true, what ought to be 
adequate data; but I quite understand that they are not as 
ordered and classified as one would wish; there is certainly 
room for a simple elementary account of the origins of the 
Order, of its principles, of its methods, of its design, of the 
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