Magick Without Tears

THELEMIC MORALITY 309 town in Italy , of those that I know at all, where I spent less than 48 hours.) The Law of Thelema helps us to deal with this question very simply and succinctly . First , it obviates the need of defining the proper "End" ; for with us this becomes identical with the "True Will"; and we are bound to assume that the man himself is the sole arbiter ; we postulate that his "End" is self-justified. Then as to his "Means": as he cannot possibly know for certain whether they are suitable or not , he can only rely on his inherited instincts, his learning, his traditions, and his experience. Of these all but the first lie wholly in the intellectual Sphere , the Ruach , and can accordingly be knocked into any desired shape at will, by dint of a little manipulation ; and if Thelema has freed him morally , as it should have done , from all the nonsense of Plato , Manu, Draco, Solon , Paul (with his harpy brood) , John Stuart Mill, and Kant, he can make his decision with purely objective judgment. (Where would mathematics be if certain solutions were a priori inadmissible?) But then , what about that plaguy first weapon in his armoury? It must be these instincts , simply because we have eliminated all the other possibilities . What are they? Two are their sources : the spiritual (Neschamah) and the physiological (Nephesch). Note that both these are feminine. They pertain to He and He final in Tetragrammaton respectively. That implies that they are, in a sense, imposed on you from the beginning . Of course it is your own higher principles, Yechidah and Chiah, that have saddled you with them ; but the "Human Consciousn ess," being in Tiphareth , cannot control Neschamah at all; and it has to be admirably unified , fortified , and perfected if it is to act efficiently upon Nephesch. In practice , we most of us do act upon Nephesch a great deal. All learning, training , discipline , tend to modify our physiological reactions in a thousand minor manners . A