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MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS 
Obviously, when you do go wrong, set up the figure, study it 
more carefully than ever, and find out what misled you. 
Remember constantly that the Statistical Method is your 
one and only safeguard against self-deception . 
Within the limits of a letter I could hardly hope to go into 
matters much more fully or deeply than I have done ; but 
'pon my soul! I think that what I have said should be enough 
for an intelligent and assiduous student. Let me insist that all 
that is worth while comes by experience . Learning one thing 
will give you the clue to another. 
Well do I know to my sorrow how hard it is, as a rule, to 
learn how to do a thing solely from written instruction ; so 
perhaps you had better arrange to see me one day about the 
actual setting-up of a figure. Probably , too , there will be a 
few points that you would like to discuss. 
I will end by betting you six clothing coupons to a pound 
of sugar that in two years concentrated work on these lines 
you will become a better astrologer than ever I was. (This is 
very cunning of me; in two years we shall all be getting 
clothes without coupons.) 
Love is the law, love under will. 
Yours fraternally, 
666