Magick Without Tears

332 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