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MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS 
the point of it? They say "Not that , not that!" denying to 
Him all attributes; He is "that which is without quantity or 
quality." They contradict themselves at every turn; seeking to 
remove limit , they remove definition . Their only refuge is in 
"superconsciousness." 
Splendid! but now 'belief 
has 
disappeared altogether; for the word has no sense unless it is 
subject to the laws of normal thought ... Tut! you must be 
feeling it yourself ; the further one goes, the darker the path. 
All I have written is somehow muddled and obscure, maugre 
my frenzied struggle for lucidity, simplicity . . . 
Is this the fault of my own sophistication? I asked myself. 
Tell you what! I'll trot round to my masseuse, and put it up 
to her. She is a simple country 
soul, by no means 
over-educated, but intelligent; capable of a firm grasp of the 
principles of her job; a steady church-goer on what she 
considers worthwhile occasions; dislikes the rector, but 
praises his policy of keeping his discourse within bounds. She 
has done quite a lot of thinking for herself ; distrusts and 
despises the Press and the Radio , has no use for ready-made 
opinions. She shares with the flock their normal prejudices 
and phobias, but is not bigoted about them, and follows 
readily 
enough a line of simply-expressed destructive 
criticism when it is put to her. This is, however, only a 
temporary reaction ; a day later she would repeat the previous 
inanities as if they had never been demolished . In the late 
fifties, at a guess. I sprang your question on her out of the 
blue, a la "doodle-bug"; premising merely that I had been 
asked the question , and was puzzled as to how to answer it. 
Her reply was curious and surprising: without a moment's 
hesitation and with great enthusiasm , "Quickly , yes!" The 
spontaneous reservation struck me as extremely interesting. I 
said: of course, but suppose you think it over- and out- a bit, 
what am I to understand? She began glibly "He's a great 
big-" and broke off, looking foolish. Then , although 
omnipotent , He needed our help- we were all just as 
powerful as He, for we were little bits of each other - but