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curious circumstances, and I was too lazy-or perhaps a little 
afraid-to reject it and write what I wanted." He fastened on 
one point: "You don't know what it means?" I repeated that 
I did not, even now that he had claimed it as important. He 
explained it to me, as to a child. I was merely surprised; it 
didn't sound possible. (Sister, all this while I've been lying to 
you like an Archbishop; it is connected with fascinations; 
indeed, it has very little to do with anything else!) 
Finally, he won me over, I went down to his G.H.Q ., took 
the Oaths , was installed in the Throne of the Xo of O.T.O. as 
National 
Sovereign Grand Master General, and began to 
establish the Order as a going concern . 
Well, you say, that is a very simple story, nothing specially 
hard to believe in it. 
True, but consider the dates. 
That scene in Victoria Street, is as clear and vivid in my 
mind, in every detail, as if it were yesterday. That secret is 
published only in that passage of that book. And-the book 
was not published until three years later, and from an address 
of which in 1910 I had not so much as thought of. The date 
of my adhesion to the O.T.O. (which, by the way, upset 
every principle and plan that I had ever held) is equally 
certain by virtue of subsequent published writings. 
Now go away and explain that! 
Well I've given you a fair account of some of the principal 
fascinations; 
as to the rest, 
bewitchments, 
sorceries, 
inhibitions and all that lot, it is enough if I say that they 
follow the regular Laws of Magick; in some, fascinations 
proper plays a prominent part; in others, it is barely more 
than walking on to say "My lord, the carriage waits!" 
But-even that can be done well or ill, and a small mistake 
may work a mighty mischief. 
Love is the law, love under will. 
Yours fraternally, 
666