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Improvising a Temple 
Cara Soror, 
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 
(This letter has been provoked by points discussed in your 
recent visit.) 
As some of your daily practices are ceremonial, it should 
not come amiss to vouchsafe a few hints of practical service. 
For in ritual Magick, it will of course be the first care to get 
everything balanced and tidy. 
If you propose to erect a regular Temple, the most precise 
instructions in every detail are given in Book 4, Part II. (But I 
haven't so much as seen a copy for years!) There is a good 
deal scattered about in Part III (Magick, which you have) 
especially about the four elemental weapons. 
But if circumstances deny you for the moment the means 
of carrying out this Edification as the Ideal would have it, 
you can certainly 
do your best to create a fairly 
satisfactory-above all, workable-substitute. 
I was often reduced to such expedients when wandering in 
strange lands, camping on glaciers, and so on. I fixed it 
workably well. In Mexico, D.F. for instance, I took my 
bedroom itself for the Circle, my night table for the Altar, my 
candle for the Lamp; and I made the Weapons compact. I had 
a Wand eight inches long, all precious stones and enamel, to 
represent the Tree of Life; within, an iron tube containing 
quicksilver-very correct , lordly, and damsilly. What a cub! 
Also, bought, a silver-gilt Cup; for Air and Earth I made one 
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