Magick Without Tears

"UNSERIOUS" CONDUCT 287 You made one experiment with me fairly satisfactory, and got full instructions for practice and experiment at home. You made one experiment, ignoring every single one of the recommendations made to you . You kept on making further appointments for a second personal lesson ; and every one of them you broke. 3. Begin simple Yoga practices. This, of course, cannot be checked at all in the absence of a careful record and of instructed critical analysis. You do not make the one, and are incapable of the other. So I suppose you are very well satisfied with yourself! 4. Your O.T.O. work. You were supplied with copies of those rituals to which you were entitled . You were to make copies of these. You were to go through them with me, so as to assimilate their symbolism and teaching. Have you done any of this? No. 5. You were to write me a letter of questions once every fortnight. Have you done so? No. Have you in thirteen months done as much as honest work would have accomplished in a week? No. What excuses do you drag out, when taxed with these misdemeanours? You are eager to make appointments to be received in audience; then you break them without warning, explanation, apology or regret. You are always going to have ample time to devote to the Great Work; but that time is always somewhere after the middle of next week. If you put half as much enthusiasm into what you quite rightly claim to be the most important factor in life as other old ladies do into Culbertson Contract, you might get somewhere. What you need, in the way of a Guru, is some fat, greasy