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Magick Without Tears
Magick Without Tears (1954), PDF p. 177
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MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS
that "wrong" is equally "right." Now then one gets rid of the
idea of "effort" which is associated with "lust of result." All
that one does is to exercise pleasantly and healthfully one's
energies.
It will not do to regard "man" as the "final cause" of
manifestation. Please do not quote myself against me.
Man is so infinitely small,
In all these stars, determinate .
Maker and master of them all.
Man is so infinitel y great.
The human apparatus is the best instrument of which we
are, at present , aware in our normal consciousness; but when
you come to experience the Conversation of the higher
intelligences, you will understand how imperfect are your
faculties. It is true that you can project these intelligences as
parts of yourself , or you can suppose that certain human
vehicles may be temporally employed by them for various
purposes ; but these speculations tend to be idle. The
important thing is to make contact with beings, whatever
their nature, who are superior to yourself , not merely in
degree but in kind. That is to say, not merely different as a
Great Dane differs from a Chihuahua , but as a buffalo differs
from either.
Of course you are perfectly right about the senses, though
I would not agree to confine the meaning to the five which
are common to most people. There must , one might suspect,
be ways of apprehending directly such phenomena as
magnetism, electrical resistance, chemical affinity and the
like. Let me direct you once more to The Book of the Law,
Chapter 2: 70-72.
There is help & hope in other spells. Wisdom says:
be strong! Then canst thou bear more joy. Be not
animal; refine thy rapture! If thou drink , drink by the
eight and ninety rules of art: if thou love, exceed by
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