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MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS 
approach to Sanctuaries which of necessity are closely 
guarded, but merely to the recognition of a new-comer to 
that part of the world in general. 
Of course all these miracles are very naughty of you; they 
mean that your magical power has sprung a few small leaks; 
at least, the water is oozing between some planks not sealed 
as Hermetically as they should be. But oh-and this is 
naughtier still-it is a blessed, blessed comfort that they 
happen, that chance, coincidence, and all the rest will simply 
not explain it all away, that your new vision of life is not a 
dream, but part and parcel of Experience for evermore, as 
real as any other manifestation of Reality through sense such 
as is common to all men. 
And this brings us-it has been a long way round-from the 
suggestion 
of your visit 
to the question 
(hitherto 
unanswered) in your letter. 
You raise so vast and razor-edged a question when you 
write of the supposed antinomy of "soul" and "sense" that it 
seemed better to withhold comment until this later letter; 
much meditation was most needful to compress the answer 
within reasonable limits; even to give it form at all is no easy 
matter. For this is probably the symptom of the earliest 
stirring of the mind of the cave-man to reflection, thereunto 
moved by other symptoms-those 
of the morning after 
following upon the night before . It is- have we not already 
dealt with that matter after a fashion?-evidence of disease 
when an organ becomes aware of its own modes of motion. 
Certainly the mere fact of questioning Life bears witness to 
some interruption of its flow, just as a ripple on an .even 
stream tells of a rock submerged. The fiercer the torrent and 
the bigger the obstacle, the greater the disturbance to the 
surface-have I not seen them on the Bralduh eight feet high? 
Lethargic folk with no wild impulse of Will may get 
through Life in bovine apathy ; we may well note that (in a 
sense) the rage of the water seems to our perturbed imagining 
actually to increase and multiply the obstructions; there is a 
critical point beyond which the ripples fight each other!