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MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS 
sachet of rose-petals in yellow silk, and another in green silk 
packed with salt. In the wilds it was easy, agreeable, and most 
efficacious to make a Circle, and build an altar, of stones; my 
Alpine Lantern served admirably for the Lamp. It did double 
duty when required: e.g. in partaking of the Sacrament of the 
Four Elements, it served for Fire. But your conditions are 
not so restricted as this. 
Let us consider what one can do with an ordinary house, 
such as you are happy enough to possess. 
First of all, it is of immense advantage to have a room 
specially consecrated to the Work, never used for any other 
purpose, 
and never entered by any other person than 
yourself, unless it were another Initiate, either for inspection 
or in case you were working together. 
The aura accumulates with the regularity and frequency of 
Use. 
The first point is the Banishing : Everything is to be 
removed from the room which is not absolutely necessary to 
the Work. 
In this country, one must attend to the heating. An 
electric stove in the East or the South, is best: it must not 
need attention. One can usually buy stoves with excellent 
appropriate symbolism. (Last time I did this- 13 e.v.-I got a 
perfect Ferranti at Harrods. The circular copper bowl, with 
the central Disk as the source of heat, is unsurpassable.) The 
walls should be "self-coloured," a neutral tint-green, grey or 
blue-grey? -and entirely bare, unless you put up, in the 
proper quarters, the proper designs, such as the "Watch 
Towers"-see The Equinox. Vol. I, No.7. 
Remember that your "East," your Kiblah, is Boleskine 
House, which is as near as possible due North from 
Plymouth. Find North by the shadow of a vertical rod at 
noon, or by the Pole-Star. Work out the angle as usual. 
The Stele of Revealing may be just on the North Wall to 
make your "East." 
Next, your Circle. The floor ought to be "Earth" green;