Cara Soror, 
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The Tao 
(2) 
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 
You are only one of a number of people who are 
interested in my translation of The Tao Teh King. Naturally, 
I want to publish it; but so many other things come first. So I 
am sending you the Introduction, in the hope that it will 
stimulate that interest to the point of getting some other 
publisher to give it sea-room. 
I bound myself to devote my life to Magick at Easter, 
1898, (era vulgari) and received my first initiation on 
November 18 of that year. 
My friend and climbing companion, Oscar Eckenstein, gave 
me my first instructions in learning the control of the mind 
early in 1901, in Mexico City. Shri Parananda, Solicitor 
General of Ceylon, an eminent writer upon , and teacher of, 
Yoga from the orthodox Shaivite standpoint, and Bhikkhu 
Ananda Metteya, (Allan Bennett) the great English Adept, 
who was one of my earliest instructors in Magick, and joined 
the Sangha in Burma in 1902, gave me my first groundings in 
mystical theory and practice. I spent some months of 1901 in 
Kandy, Ceylon with the latter, until success crowned my 
work. 
I also studied all varieties of Asiatic philosophy, especially 
with regard 
to the practical 
question of spiritual 
development, 
the Sufi doctrines, the Upanishads, the 
Sankhya, Veda and Vedanta, the Bhagarad-Gita and Purana, 
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