Magick Without Tears

MORALS OF UBER AL 305 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