Magick Without Tears

304 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS impression, especially as she swore him most solemnly to secrecy as to the source of his power. (Obviously, he would not wish to share it with others.) From time to time, when circumstances suggested it, she wrote to him, enclosing pertinent sections of my commentary, of which I had given her a copy at the time of the "Zeugnis."2 Had Hitler been a less abnormal character, no great "mischief," or at least a very different kind of "mischief," might have come of it. I think you have read Hitler Speaks-if not, do so-his private conversation abounds in what sound almost like actual quotations from The Book of the Law. But the public man's private conversation can be repeated on the platform only at the risk of his political life; and he served up to the people only such concoctions as would tickle their gross palates. Worse still, he was the slave of his prophetic frenzy; he had not undertaken the balancing regimen of the Curriculum of A:. A:. ; and, worst of all, he was very far indeed from being a full initiate, even in the loosest sense of the term. His Weltanschauung was accordingly a mass of personal and political prejudice; he had no true cosmic comprehension, no true appreciation of First Principles; and he was tossed about in every direction by the varied conflicting forces that naturally concentrated their energies ever more strenuously upon him as his personal position became more and more the dominating factor, first in domestic and then in European politics. I warned our S.H. Soror repeatedly that she ought to correct these tendencies; but she already saw the success of her plans within her grasp, and refused to believe that this success itself would alarm the world into combining to destroy him. "But we have the Book," she confidently retorted, failing to see that the other powers in extremity would be compelled to adopt those identical principles. Of course, as you know, it has happened as I foresaw; only a remnant of piety-putrefied Prelates and sloppy sentimentalists still hold out against The Book of the Law, sabotage the victory, and will turn the Peace into a 2. "Zeugnis der Suchenden": a declaration she had signed in 1925.