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MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS 
dynamic and not static! For if there were some form of Being 
separate from Going, it would necessarily be subject to 
decay; and, in any case, a thing impossible to apprehend, 
since apprehension is itself an Act, not an idea immobile 
which would be bound to change in the very moment of 
grasping it. 
As I have 
tried 
to show in another letter, the 
"Point-Event" (or whatever it is) of which we are aware is a 
change, or, less inaccurately, the memory of one; the things 
that change remain relentlessly unknown. 
It does seem to me, young woman, that you ought to go 
over these ideas again and again, familiarizing yourself 
intimately with this process of passing from one to another, 
so intimately that it becomes automatic and spontaneous for 
you to run round the circle in perfectly frictionless ease; for 
otherwise your mind will be forever pestering you all your 
life, and even your conscience reproaching you; they will say, 
"But you have never got a definite answer to any single one 
of your original questions." 
We are all-most 
of us, 
anyhow-born with this hankering after the definite; it is our 
weakness that yearns for repose. We do not see that this is 
death; if any of these answers could be cut off short and 
neatly trimmed with paper frills like a ham, it would no 
longer be even an approximation to truth. 
I am quite sure that this is the Doctrine of the Tao, and of 
opinion that no other body of teaching puts forward its 
thought more clearly or more simply. 
Love is the law, love under will. 
Yours fraternally, 
666