Magick Without Tears

306 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS 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