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MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS 
That's just the trouble; for it is the first of the masks upon 
the face of the True Will; and that mask is the Poker-Face! 
As all true Art is spontaneous, is genius, is utterly beyond 
all conscious knowledge or control, so also is sex. Indeed, one 
might class it as deeper still than Art; for Art does at least 
endeavour to find an intelligible means of expression. That is 
much nearer to sanity than the blind lust of the sex-impulse. 
The maddest genius does look from Chokmah not only to 
Binah, but to the fruit of that union in Daath and the Ruach; 
the sex-impulse has no use for Binah to understand, to 
interpret, to transmit. It wants no more than an instrument 
which will destroy it. 
What then is the magical remedy? Obvious enough to the 
Qabalist. "Love is the law, love under will." It must be fitted 
at its earliest manifestations with its proper Binah, so as to 
flow freely along the Path of Daleth, and restore the lost 
Balance. Attempts to suppress it are fatal, to sublime it are 
false and futile. But, guided wisely from the start , by the 
time it becomes strong it has learnt how to use its virtues to 
the best advantage. 
And what of the parallel instinct in a woman? Except in 
(rather rare) cases of congenital disease or deformity, the 
problem is never so acute. For Binah, even while she winks at 
Chokmah, 
has the other eye wide-open, swivelled on 
Tiphareth. Her True Will is thus divided by Nature from the 
start, and her tragedy is if she fails to unite these two objects. 
Oh, dear me, yes, I know all about spretae injuria formae and 
furens quid femina possU; but that is only because when she 
misses her bite she feels doubly baffled, robbed not only of 
the ecstatic Present, but of the glamorous Future. If she eat 
independently of the Fruit of the Tree of Life when unripe, 
she has not only the bad taste in the mouth , but indigestion 
to follow. Then , living as she does so much in the world of 
imagination, constantly living shadow-pictures of her Desire, 
she is not nearly so liable to the violent insanities of sheer 
blind lust, as is the male. The essential difference is indicated