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victims were there of the "radium bomb"? (At Guy's, wasn't 
it?) It always has to happen, even with well-tried tools, and 
despite utmost precautions. How many workmen's lives did 
the Forth Bridge cost? You know, I suppose that a certain 
number of fatal accidents are always included in the 
calculations of any project of Public Works. 
But a new Magical Formula is on a vastly bigger scale. Cast 
your mind for a moment back to the last occasion, when 
Osiris succeeded to Isis. In that great cataclysm not only 
Empires, but civilizations crashed one after another. Three 
quarters of the Aeon had elapsed before the wine of that 
vintage was really drinkable. 
I expect, as I hope, that this time (communication heing 
universaHy better established, the foundations better laid, 
and things in general moving quicker) we may be able to 
enjoy the harvest in very much less time. But hang it all! it's 
hardly reasonable to expect complete fruition after only 40 
years. 
What seems to me the most encouraging symptom of all is 
this: the Book itself, and the system of Magick based 
thereon, and the bankruptcy of all previous systems (as set 
forth in Eight Lectures on Yoga, Magick, The Book of Thoth, 
and other similar words) do furnish us all with a clear, 
concise practical Method (free from all contamination of the 
humbug of faith and superstition) whereby anyone of us 
may attain to "the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy 
Guardian Angel," and that of many other Beings of 
in telligence and power indefinitely 
more exalted than 
anything which we recognize as human-and, let us hope, 
capable of bestowing upon us a modicum of Wisdom 
adequate to get us out of the quagmire into which the crisis 
has temporarily plunged us all! 
Love is the law, love under will. 
Fraternally yours, 
666 
P.S. It has seemed better to make a postscript of the most