Magick Without Tears

({ONEY 351 he whole doctrine of so-called renunciation-which is lothing of the sort. You don't "renounce" five shillings if 'ou pay that for a country house with 3000 acres of hooting, and the best salmon fishing on Deeside, do you? llis is the Greater Interpretation of the Injunction, that no quation is possible: Magical Power is immeasurably more aluable than any amount of money. But the Epigram is everely practical. It may sound a little romantic, but-here :oes! A community which thinks in terms of wealth is rich; rl terms of money, poor. How so? Because the former rlcludes the imponderables. A couple of Japanese wrestlers may be worth more than Ihidias, Robert Browning, Titian, and Mozart in terms of lutchers' meat. We might alter that incorrect truism "money annot buy anything worth having" to "Things worth having annot be estimated in terms of money." You see, no ounting. The operation to save your child's life: do you are if the surgeon wants five pounds or fifty? Of course, you [lay not have the fifty, or be obliged to retrench in other vays to get it; but it makes no odds as to what you feel bout it. What is the value of a University Education? The nswer is that it is a pure gamble. The student may use his dvantages to make a rich marriage, to attract the wife of a rlillionaire, to earn a judgeship or a post in the Cabinet, to arn £500 a year as a doctor, £150 as a schoolmaster-or he flay die in the process. So with all the spiritual values; they re, in the most literal sense, inestimable. So-don't start to :ount! Most obviously of all, when it comes to the Great Work, noney does not count at all. I do not write of any Magical vork, in the restricted sense of the phrase. Shaw says: 'Admirals always want more battleships" and J.F.C. Fuller: 'if a lawyer, more wretches to hang." It applies to anyone vhose heart is in his job. (Of course, in this case, money is ike all other things of value; nothing counts but the Job.) ['his, too, is sound Magical doctrine.