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MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS 
against it; Hadit, the centrifugal, ever seeking to penetrate the 
unknown. Nuit is not too dissimilar from the Teh described 
in Lao-tze. 
Nor would it be proper to ignore The Book of Lies, p. 12: 
Peaches 
Soft and hollow, how thou dost overcome the hard and 
full! 
It dies, it gives itself; to Thee is the fruit! 
Be thou the Bride; thou shalt be the Mother hereafter. 
To all impressions thus. Let them not overcome thee; 
yet let them breed within thee. The least of the 
impressions, come to its perfection , is Pan. 
Receive a thousand lovers; thou shalt bear but One 
Child. 
This child shall be the heir of Fate the Father. 
I want you to realize that this collaboration of the equal 
opposites is the first condition of existence in any form. The 
trouble has always been that nobody ever looked at things 
from outside; they were always at one end or the other. This 
is because one haphazard collection of Point-Events chooses 
to think of itself as a Male; another, as a Female. It is totally 
absurd to think of Winnie as a woman, and Martin as a man. 
The quintessence of each is identical: "Every man and every 
woman is a star." It is only a superficial accident that has 
made one set determine to function in one particular 
incarnation as the one or the other. I say function; for there 
is no difference in the Quintessence. 
Yet, since it is with a Being in its present function that one 
has to deal, it needs must that one acts in practice as if 
"does" were the same as "was." You might be described as 
one instance of the 0 = 2 equation, and I as another; and any 
0=2 is indistinguishable from any other . Yet you and I are 
not identical, because all that I can know of you, or you of 
me, is a presentation of a part of that 0 = 2 "Universe"; if we 
were both equally conscious of that Whole, there would be