244 
MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS 
Teh King from which my translation is taken, and when the 
veil was nu more than a shimmering, scintillating gossamer, 
translucent to the ineffable glory that glows behind it. For in 
those weeks I was able to remember and record a really 
considerable number of past lives. (I half believe, and hope, 
that the relevant passages were copied into one of my Cefalu 
diaries; but who will struggle through those still extant on the 
chance?) 
"But what about the intervals?" you ask, Shabash! Rem 
acu tetigisti. 
It strikes me with immense and poignant power a right 
shrewd blow-what of the other side? What of the periods 
between successive incarnations? 
The theory is that the Supernal Triad constitutes (or, 
rather, is an image of) the "eternal" Essence of a man; that is, 
it is the positive expression of that ultimate "Point of View" 
which is and is not and neither is nor is not etc. Quite 
indestructible. 
Now when a man spends his life (a) building up and 
developing the six Sephiroth of the Ruach so that they 
cohere closely in proper balance and relation, (b) in forging, 
developing and maintaining a link of steel between this solid 
Ruach and that Triad, Death merely means the dropping off 
of the Nephesch (Malkuth) so that the man takes over his 
instrument of Mind (Ruach) with him to his next suitably 
chosen vehicle. The tendency of the Ruach is of course to 
disintegrate more or less rapidly under the impact of its new 
experiences of after-death conditions. 
It is therefore of the very first importance to train the 
mind in every possible way, and to bind it to the Higher 
Principles by steady, by constant, by flaming Aspiration, 
fortified by the sternest discipline, and by continuously 
reformulated Oaths. 
Such a man will be fully occupied after his death with the 
unremitting search for his new instrument; he will brush 
aside-as 
he has made a habit of doing during life-the 
innumerable lures of "Reward" and the like.