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MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS 
You must lay most closely to your heart the theory of the 
Magical Link (see Magick, pp. 107-122) and see well to it that 
it rings true; for without this your talisman is worse than 
useless. It is dangerous; for all that Energy is bound to 
expend itself somehow; it will make its own links with 
anything handy that takes its fancy; and you can get into any 
sort of the most serious kind of trouble. 
There is a great deal of useful stuff in Magick, pp. 92-100, 
and pp. 179-189. I could go on all night doing nothing but 
indicating sources of information. 
Then comes the question of how to "charge" the 
Talisman, of how to evoke or to invoke the Beings 
concerned, and of-oh! of so much that you need a lifetime 
merely to master the theory. 
Remember, too, please, what I have pointed out elsewhere, 
that the greatest Masters have quite often not been Magicians 
at all, technically; they have used such devices as Secret 
Societies, Slogans, and Books. If you are so frivolous as to try 
to exclude these from our discourse, it is merely evidence 
that you have not understood a single word of what I have 
been trying to tell you these last few hundred years! 
May I close with a stray example or so? The Equinox. Vol. 
III, No. I, has the Neophyte's Pantacle of Frater O.I.V.V.I.O. 
The Frontispiece of the original (4 volume) edition of 
Magick, the colours vilely reproduced, is a Lamen of my own 
Magick, or a Pantacle of the Science, I'm sure I'm not sure 
which! 
Most of my Talismans, like my Invocations, have been 
poems. This letter must be like The Iliad in at least one 
respect; it does not end; it stops. 
Love is the law. love under will. 
Yours fraternally, 
666