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MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS 
January 12 describe the Sign, "The omnipresence of my 
body." And there She was-in the last place in the world 
where one would have sought Her. 
Note, too, the accuracy of the Yi King Symbol 
=-= for = = 
is of course the Symbol of our Lady, and the God below Her 
in the Stele is == the Sun. 
All this is clear proof of the unspeakable power and 
wisdom of Those who have sent me to proclaim the Law. 
If these events be indeed the result of calculation and 
control on the part of the Secret Chiefs, it seems at first sight 
as if the people involved had been prepared to play their 
parts from the beginning. Our previous relations, the girl's to 
opium, my friendship with her lover, and his interest in my 
work ; omit any item and the whole plan fails. But this 
assumption is unnecessary. The actual preparation need not 
go back further than three years, when the Stele was 
embroidered. We may allow the Secret Chiefs considerable 
option, just as a chess player is not confined to one special 
combination for his attack. We may suppose that had these 
people not been available, the sign which I demanded might 
have been given me in some other equally striking way. We 
are not obliged to make extravagant assumptions in order to 
maintain that the evidence of purpose is irresistibly strong. 
To dismiss this intricate concatenation of circumstances, 
culminating as they do in the showing forth of the exact sign 
which I had demanded, is simply to strain the theory of 
probabilities beyond the breaking point. Here then are two 
complicated episodes which go to prove that I am walking, 
not by faith but by sight, in my relations with the Secret 
Chiefs; and these are but two links in a very long chain. This 
account of my career will describe many others equally 
striking. I might, perhaps , deny my inmost instinct the right 
to testify were anyone case of this kind in question; but