Magick Without Tears

262 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS as well as to establish the date, I got a reporter on the spot, with the result following: These Names Make News. Mixed Bag of Early Birds. An Englishman. a Jew, an Indian, a Negro, a Malayan-no, it's not one of those saloon-bar jokes-assembled on the Embankment, by Cleopatra's Needle, soon after 6 a. m. yesterday. They were certainly the most oddly-assorted party out and about at that hour. Their reason for being there was odd, too. They were there to assist at the publication of a book by a 62-year old magician, ALEISTER CROWLEY. Publication occurred at 6: 22 sharp, when the Sun entered Capricornus. Crowley made a short speech; as "the Priest of the Princes" proclaimed the Law of Thelema; handed copies of book to white, red, brown, black, yellow representatives. Representative of the "black" race was a dancing-girl. Indian was a non-English speaking Bengali Muslim, who seemed rather puzzled by the whole business. Book contains message dictated to Crowley at Cairo in 1904 "by Aiwass, a Being whose nature he does not fully understand but who described Himself as "The Minister of Hoor-Paar-Kraat' (the Lord of Silence). " Prospectus of book says it's been published three times before; adds, sinisterly, that first publication was nine months before outbreak of Balkan war, second, nine months before outbreak of world war, third, nine months before outbreak of Sino-Japanese war. No coincidence, it says: "the might of this Magick burst out and caused a catastrophe to civilisation. " Well, we'll see next September . ..