Magick Without Tears

PREFACE XIX card, etc., lost their abstract formality and became living things. I want to quote one paragraph from letter F where this method is described. As I walked about, I made a point of attributing everything I saw to its appropriate idea. I would walk out of the door of my house and reflect that door is Daleth. and house Beth; now the word dob is Hebrew for bear. and has the number 6. which refers to the Sun. Then you come to the fence of your property and that is Cheth-number 8. number of Tarot Trump 7, which is the Chariot; so you begin to look about for your car. Then you come to the street and the first house you see is number 86, and that is Elohim. and it is built of red brick which reminds you of Mars and the Blasted Tower, and so on. As soon as this sort of work, which can be done in a quite ligh thearted spirit, becomes habitual. you will find your mind running naturally in this direction, and will be surprised at your progress. Never let your mind wander from the fact that your Qabalah is not my Qabalah; a good many of the things which I have noted may be useful to you, but you must construct your own system so that it is a living weapon in your hand. The novelist Philip Wylie, many years ago earned a reputation for himself by the writing of a book entitled A Generation of Vipers in which he excoriated mothers and motherhood. This was one of many books denouncing so-called mother love, laying down the proposition, which has since been enormously elaborated, that this has led to the emasculation of the American male, placing him in emotional servitude to the American matriarchy. The book created an ever-widening stir, and has left its mark on American literature, or at least the literature of popular psychology. If Freud originally developed the