Cara Soror, 
57 
Beings I Have Seen with My 
Physical Eye 
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 
Well do you know my lifelong rule never to make any 
assertion that cannot be verified, or at least supported by 
corroborative evidence, on any subject pertaining to Magick. 
When, therefore, you express curiosity as to how much of 
the normally super-sensible world has been revealed to my 
senses, and especially that of sight, you must take my answer 
as "without prejudice," "e. and o.e.," "under the rose," and 
"in a Pickwickian sense." If you choose to call me a lunatic 
and/or a liar, I shall accept the verdict with mine accustomed 
imperturbability. Whether what I am about to tell you is 
"true" or not doesn't matter, as in any case it proves nothing 
in particular. What does matter is to accept nothing whatever 
from the "Astral Plane" without the most conclusive and 
irrefragable internal evidence. 
That is enough for the caveat part of it; now I plunge 
direct into the autobiographical. 
I begin with my childhood. There is one incident, not 
quite relevant in this place, but yet of such supreme 
significance that I dare not omit it. I must have been about 6 
years old. I was capering round 'my father during a walk 
through the meadows. He pointed out a bunch of nettles in 
the corner of the field, close to the gate (I can see it quite 
clearly to-day!) and told me that if I touched them they 
would sting. Some word , gesture, or expression of mine 
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