THE IMPORTANCE OF GREETINGS 
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"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law" to spring 
to the forefront of the mind when one is introduced to a 
stranger, or comes down to breakfast, or hears the telephone 
bell, or observes the hour of the adoration, (these are to be 
the superficial reactions, like instinctively rising when a lady 
enters the room) or, at the other end, in moments of 
immediate peril, or of sudden apprehension, or when in one's 
meditation, one approaches the deepest strata. 
One need not be dogmatic about the use of these special 
words. One might choose a formula to represent one's own 
particular True Will. It is a little like Cato (or Scipio, was it?) 
who concluded every speech, whether about the Regulations 
of the Roman Bath or the proposal to reclaim a marsh of the 
Maremma, with the words: "And moreover , in my opinion, 
Carthage ought to be destroyed." 
Got it? 
You teach the mind to push your thought automatically to 
the very thing from which it was trying to wander. "Yes, I 
get you Stephen! ... But, Uncle Dudley, come clean, do you 
always do all this yourself? Don't you sometimes feel 
embarrassed, or fear that you may destroy the effect of your 
letter, or 'create a scene' in the public street when you 
suddenly stop and perform these incomprehensible antics, or 
simply forget about the whole thing?" 
Yes, I do. 
Well now, have I any shadow of an excuse? Yes, I have, 
after a fashion; I don't think it good manners to force my 
idiosyncrasies down people's throats, and I don't want to 
appear more of an eccentric than I need. It might detract 
from my personal influence, and so actually harm the Work 
that I am trying to perform. 
Love is the law, love under will. 
Yours fraternally, 
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