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cissoid, there isn't one. Mind your own business! is the 
sole sufficient rule. To drag in social, economic, 
religious and such aspects is irrelevance and impurity. 
3. The Magical side. Sex is, directly or indirectly, the 
most powerful weapon in the armoury of the Magician; 
and precisely because there is no moral guide, it is 
indescribably dangerous. I have given a great many 
hints, 
especially 
in Magick. and The Book of 
Thoth-some of the cards are almost blatantly revealing; 
so I have been rapped rather severely over the knuckles 
for giving children matches for playthings. My excuse 
has been that they have already got the matches, that 
my explanations have been directed to add conscious 
precautions to the existing automatic safeguards. 
The above remarks refer mainly to the technique of the 
business; and it is going a very long way to tell you that you 
ought to be able to work out the principles thereof from 
your general knowledge of Magick, but especially the 
Formula of Tetragrammaton, clearly stated and explained in 
Magick, Chapter III. Combine this with the heart of Chapter 
XII and you've got it! 
But there is another point at issue. This incidentally, is 
where the "automatic safeguards" come in. "Thou hast no 
right but to do thy will" (AL, I: 42) means that to "go 
awhoring after strange" purposes can only be disastrous. It is 
possible, in chemistry, to provoke an endothermic reaction; 
but that is only asking for trouble . The product bears within 
its own heart the seed of dissolution. Accordingly, the most 
important preliminary to any Magical operation is to make 
sure that its object is not only harmonious with, but 
necessary to, your Great Work. 
Note also that the use of this supreme method involves the 
manipulation of energies ineffably secret and most delicately 
sensitive; it compares with the operations of ordinary Magick 
as the last word in artillery does with the blunderbuss! 
What is the damn thing, anyway?