Magick Without Tears

49 Thelemic Morality Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Right glad am I to hear that you have so astutely detected the bulk of my remarks on morals as little better than plain sophistry . "After all," you tell me, "there is for everyone of us an instinct, at least, of what is 'right' and what is wrong." And it is plain enough that you understand the validity of this sense in itself, in its own right, wholly independent of any Codes or systems whatsoever. I seem to have started up this rock chimney with the wrong leg! What I am trying to write is a sort of answer to your remark about "Does the end justify the means?" and I had better tackle it straightforwardly . Cesspools in every theologian's back garden: sewers in every legislator's garden city: there is no end to the literature of the subject. But one point is amusing ; the Jesuits have always been accused of answering that question in the affirmative , apparently for no better reason than that their doctrine is unanimously adverse to admitting it. (People are like that! They say that I spent months in Yucatan-the only province in Mexico that I did not visit. They say that my home is a Tibetan monastery; and Tibet is almost the only country in East and Central Asia that my feet have never trodden . They say that I lived for years in Capri-the only 308