Magick Without Tears

124 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS and they confer upon him, gradually , the Magical Secrets which make him Master of Life. To return for a moment to that question of Secrecy: there is no rule to prevent you from quoting against me such of my brighter remarks as "Mystery is the enemy of Truth" ; but , for one thing, I am, and always have been, the leader of the Extreme Left in the Council-Chamber of the City of the Pyramids, so that if I acquiesce at all in the system of the O.T.O. so far as the "secret of secrets" of the IXo is concerned, it is really on a point of personal honour. My pledge given to the late Frater Superior and O.H.O., Dr. Theodor Reuss. For all that, in this particular instance it is beyond question a point of common prudence , both because the abuse of the Secret is, at least on the surface, so easy and so tempting, and because, if it became a matter of general knowledge the Order itself might be in danger of calumny and pe:-secution ; for the secret is even easier to misinterpret than to profane. Lege! ludica! Tace! Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally, 666