Magick Without Tears

252 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