Magick Without Tears

174 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS pain," for instance, may be read XVII x 22 "the expression of Star-love," and so on: all too complicated for this time and place!) V.32: Then the joys of my love (Le., the fulfilment of all possible experiences) will redeem ye from all pain. V.58: I give unimaginable joys on earth; certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death; peace) unutterable, rest ecstasy. Cap. II, v. 9: Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains. (The continuation is amusing! Vv. 10 and 11 read:) o prophet! thou hast ill will to learn this writing. I see thee hate the hand and the pen; but I am stronger. At that time I was a hard-shell Buddhist, sent out a New Year's Card "wishing you a speedy termination of existence!" And this as a young man, with the world at my feet. It only goes to show ... ) Vv. 19,20: Is a God to live in a dog? No; but the highest are of us. Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious languor, force and fire, are of us. This chapter returns over and over again to this theme in one form or another. 1. "Peace": the glow of satisfaction at achievement. It is not "eternal," rather, it whets the appetite for another adventure. (Peace, = 180 = 7 x 9 x 13 = the Venusian plus Lunar form of Unity.)