Magick Without Tears

258 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS myself at this old riddle of 718. Half-a-dozen comic failures. But I felt that there was something on the way. Idly, I put down Stele in the Greek 52, and said, Perhaps we can make a "name" out of the difference between that and 718. I jumped. 718 - 52 = 666 My own name! Why, of course, quoth he, in glee; it is in fact the Stele of 666; for it is the Stele of Ankh-f-n-khonsu , my name in those past days. Oh no! said Something, that's not good enough! "Count well its name"-the Stele of Ankh-f-n-khonsu: a name is something to which it answers, quite different from a title. That solution is clever, but it just won't do, because that Stele never had a name! You lie! I shouted, as the full light broke through the mists of my mind; in these three thousand years it has once, if only once, had a name by invoking which you could bring it up before you; its name is "Stele 666" in the Catalogue of the Museum at Boulak! A single simple hammerstroke, and the nail is driven home to the head! Compare this with the chaotic devices of the "bilateral-cipher" maniacs, by the application of which it is easy to prove that Bernard Shaw wrote Rudyard Kipling. Or anything else! you pay your money, and you take your choice. 7. Another strong paint is that the prophecy should on the surface mean something vague and plausible, and, interpreted, possess this same quality of unique accuracy. For instance (though it is not prediction) consider "Love is the law, love under will." Yes, that sounds very well; I dare say that is an excellent point of philosophy. But! well, anyone might say that. Oh, no! For when we use the Greek of the technical terms, we find Agape Love, and Thelema Will, both of the value of 93-and these only two blossoms of