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MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS 
castle, the fortified camp, the city wall; the "gens," the clan, 
the tribe, the patrie, to be outside means danger from cold, 
hunger and thirst, raiding parties, highway robbers, bears, 
wolves and tigers. To go out was to take a risk; and, your 
labour and courage being assets to your kinsmen, you were 
also a bad man; in fact, a "bounder" or "outsider ." Debauch 
is simply 'to go out of doors'! St. John says: "Without are 
dogs and sorcerers and whoremongers and adulterers and 
idolaters and ... " -so on. 
We of Thelema challenge all this briskly. "The word of Sin 
is Restriction" (AL, I: 41). Our Formula, roughly speaking, is 
to go out and grab what we want. We do this so thoroughly 
that we grow thereby, extending our conception of "I" by 
including each new accretion instead of remaining a closely 
delineated self, proud of possessing other things, as do the 
Black Brothers. 
We are whole-hearted extroverts; the penalty of restricting 
oneself is anything from neurosis to downright lunacy; in 
particular, melancholia. 
You ask whether these remarks do not conflict with my 
repeated definition of Initiation as the Way In. Not at all; the 
Inmost is identical with the All. As you travel inward, you 
become able to perceive all the layers which surround the 
'Self' from within, thus enlarging the scope of your vision of 
the Universe. It is like moving from a skirmishing patrol to 
G.H.Q.; and the object of so doing is obviously to exercise 
constantly increasing control over the whole Army. Every 
step in rank enables you both to see more and to do more; 
but one's attention is inevitably directed outward. 
When the entire system of the Universe is conterminous 
with your comprehension, 'inward' and 'outward' become 
identical. 
But it won't do at all to seek anything within but a point 
of view, for the simple reason that there is nothing else there! 
It is just like all those symbols in The Book of Thoth; as 
soon as you get to the "end" of anything, you suddenly find 
it is the "beginning."