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MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS 
This being so, a truth which is "of all Truth" should mean 
any proposition 
which forms an essential part of this 
Khu-this 'Magical Identity' of a man. 
Now how curious it must appear at the first glance to note 
that the truths of this order should prove to be what we call 
Axioms-or even Platitudes . 
"The more certain I am of anything, the more certain it is 
that I am only asserting a limitation of my own mind." 
Very good, but what am I to do about it? Some at least of 
such certainties must surely be "of aU Truth." The test of 
admission to this class ought to be that, if one were to accept 
the contradictory of the proposition, the entire structure of 
the Mind would be knocked to pieces, as is. not at all the case 
with the Astronomer's determination, which may turn out to 
be wrong for a dozen different reasons without anybody 
getting seriously wounded in his tenderest feelings. 
The Statesman knows instinctively, or at worst, by his 
training and experience, what sort of assertion, harmless 
enough on the surface, may be "dangerous thinking," a 
death-blow to his own idea of what is "of all Truth," and 
strikes out wildly in a panic entirely justifiable from his own 
point of view. Exhibit No.1: Galileo and that lot. What 
could it possibly matter to the Gospel story that people 
should think that the Earth moves round the Sun? (Riemann, 
and oh! such a lot of things, have shown that it didn't and 
doesn't! This sort of "Truth" is only a set of conventions.) 
"Oh, don't gas away like this! I want to know what to do 
about it. Am I to accept this 'caterwauling Gamut, and 
enlarge my Mind, and call it an Initiation? Or am I to nail my 
own of-all-Truth Tonic Solfa to the Mast, and go down into 
the Maelstrom of Insanity with colours flying?" 
Do you really need Massed Bands to lull Baby to sleep? 
The Master of the Temple deals very simply and efficiently 
with problems of this kind. "The Mind" (says he) of this 
Party of the First Part, hereinafter referred to as Frater N (or 
whatever his 8° = 3° motto may be) is so constructed that the 
interval from C to C is most harmoniously divided into n