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MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS 
battle along the whole front; that is to say, I crossed to Paris, 
where she had a flat, and carried her off to Switzerland to 
spend the winter skating. Arrived at Interlaken, we found 
that Murren was not open, so we went on to St. Moritz, 
breaking the journey at Zurich. This town is so hideous and 
depressing that we felt that our only chance of living through 
the night was to get superbly drunk, which we did. 
(Let me emphasize that this wild adventure had not the 
remotest 
connection 
with Magick. Virakam was utterly 
ignorant of the subject. She had hardly so much as a 
smattering of Christian Science. She had never attended a 
seance or played Planchette.) 
... Lassati sed non Satiati by midnight, I expected to 
sleep; but was aroused by Virakam being apparently seized 
with a violent attack of hysteria, in which she poured forth a 
frantic torrent of senseless hallucination. I was irritated and 
tried to calm her. But she insisted that her experience was 
real; that she bore an important message to me from some 
invisible individual. Such nonsense increased my irritation. 
But-after 
about 
an hour of it-my jaw fell with 
astonishment. I became suddenly aware of a coherence in her 
ravings, and further that they were couched in my own 
language of symbols. My attention being thus awakened, I 
listened to what she was saying. A few minutes convinced me 
that 
she 
was actually 
in communication 
with some 
Intelligence who had a message for me. 
Let me explain briefly the grounds for this belief. I have 
already set forth, in connection with the Cairo Working, 
some of the safeguards which I habitually employ. Virakam's 
vision contained elements perfectly familiar to me. This was 
clear proof that the man in her vision, whom she called 
Ab-ul-Diz, was acquainted with my system of hieroglyphics, 
literal and numerical, and also with some incidents in my 
Magical Career. Virakam herself certainly knew nothing of 
any of these. Ab-ul-Diz told us to call him a week later , when 
he would give further information. We arrived at St. Moritz 
and engaged a suite in the Palace Hotel.