Magick Without Tears

310 MAGICK WITHOUT. TEARS complete branch of Yoga, Hatha Yoga, is occupied with nothing else. And you can have your face "lifted." Apart from this, we nearly all of us attend to matters like our waistline, our hours of sleep, our digestion, or our muscular development. Some men have even taught themselves to reduce the pulse-beat both in rate and in volume; so much so that they have sometimes been credited with the power to stop the heart altogether at will. Neschamah is an entirely different proposition. One of Tiphareth's prime assets is the influence, through the path of "The Lovers'," from Binah. The son's milk from the Great Mother. (From his Father , Chiah, Chokmah , he inherits the infinite possibilities of Nuit, through the path of He, "The Star"; and from his "God," Kether, the Divine Consciousness, the direct inspiration, guidance, and ward of his Holy Guardian Angel, through the path of Gimel, the Moon, "The Priestess.") Neschamah, then, will not be influenced by Ruach, except in so far as it is explained or interpreted by Ruach. These "instincts" are implanted from on high, not from below; they would be imperative were one always sure of having received them pure, and interpreted them aright. People spoke to me, people whose experience and judgment in all matters of Sacrifice to Dionysus had my very fullest assent and admiration; they told me that of all drinks, the best was Beer. So I have wanted for many years to drink it. I can't. I once tasted a few drops on the end of a teaspoon. They told me that wasn't quite the same thing! That's Nephesch. I cannot bear to do any unkind action , however wise, necessary, and all the rest of it. I do it, but "it hurts me more than it hurts you" is actually true for me. (This only applies where the other party is unable to retaliate; I love hurting a stout antagonist in a fair fight.) That's Neschamah. What one really needs to know is whether the protest of