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MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS 
development must be a conflict with that Inertia. It is the 
opposition between the Magical Path and the Mystical; we 
may therefore say fearlessly that all forms of progress, 
although they make use of the formulae of nature which have 
brought them to their present situation , are attempts to 
proceed further on the way of the True Will. 
It is particularly important to understand this at the 
present time when the Aeon of Horus is just getting under 
way. For the Aeon of Isis, that of the Mother, appears to 
have regarded the whole of Nature as a spontaneous growth 
of universal scope. In the aeon of Osiris, the restriction of 
Family appears for the first time. 
The world of sentient beings is separated into clusters, 
each family, clan, gens, or nation, acting as a unit and 
standing upon armed neutrality with respect to similar 
groups. But in the Aeon of Horus this system has broken 
down. That such is the case is already abundantly manifest. 
Totalitarianism in any of its forms tends to break down 
the family structure. It considers only the Individual, and 
him, merely as a unit in the welter of the state . 
Experience will doubtless prove that this idea simply will 
not work. The Individual will come to his own, but it will be 
impossible to reconstruct the Family System. 
It will in particular be impossible to maintain the intimate 
relation between Mother and Child, which has been so 
dominant a feature of past civilizations. 
The very social and economic causes which in the old time 
tended to cement the relationship, have become centrifugal 
in their effect.