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shambles of surrender if we are fools enough to give ear to 
their caterwauling-as in the story of the highly-esteemed 
Tomcat , when at last one of his fans obtained an interview; 
"all he could do was to talk about his operation ." 
"The Book of the Law takes us back to primitive 
savagery," you say. Well, where are we? 
We're at Guernica, Lidice, Oradour-sur-Glane, Rotterdam 
and hundreds 
of other crimes, to say nothing of 
Concentration-camp, Stalag, and a million lesser horrors, 
inconceivable by the most diseased and inflamed Sadistic 
imagination forty years ago. 
You disagree with Aiwass-so do all of us. The trouble is 
that He can say: "But I'm not arguing; I'm telling you." 
Now then let us look a little more deeply (and I hope 
more clearly) into this Ethics, with our minds undismayed by 
any human emotion. 
Aiwass is of a different Order of Being from ourselves. 
Consider a gold-refiner. "Analysis shows 20 percent of 
copper in this sample; I'll heat it in a current of oxygen; that 
will oxidize the copper. Shake it up with sulphuric acid; then 
we wash away the copper sulphate, and that's that." He does 
not consider how the copper feels about it; indeed, he 
doesn't believe that the copper knows about it at all. 
Yes, yes, of course; I know that's an extreme case. I only 
bring it in to show what could be done as a last resort, if 
pushed to the wall. Fortunately, we are not so ill situated . 
You will, I dare say, without my prompting, think of the 
surgeon and the schoolmaster; but I can go one better. We 
have in recent history a case almost precisely parallel. 
How did I begin this letter? By defining the task of the 
Author: to announce the Magical Formula of the Aeon of 
Horus and so on. In other words, to train mankind to the use 
of a new source of power. 
Page Professor Ronetgen! Page the Curies! 
How many "Martyrs to X-ray dermatitis"? 
Willing 
experimenters who knew the risks? Not all of them; lots of 
patients got burnt in utmost agony of death. How many