Magick Without Tears

14 Noise Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. You ask me what is, at the present time, the greatest obstacle to human progress. I answer in one word: NOISE. You will recall that in Yoga the concise compendium of Initiated Instruction is: Sit still Stop thinking Shut up, and Get out. The second of these postulates the third; for one can neither think nor stop thinking with all that row going on. Then again, the Fourth Power of the Sphinx is Silence; on this subject I must refer you to Little Essays Toward Truth (No. 14, p. 75). We are really trying to discuss something totally different; something practical in daily life. Very well, then; you remark that Goetia actually means "howling," that we use officially the Bell, the Tom-Tom, the Incantations, the Mantras, and so on. All quite true, about Magick; but none of it applies to Yoga, for even with the Mantra the practice is to go faster and more quietly as one proceeds, until it becomes "Mental Muttering:" M is the letter that is pronounced with the lips 125