Magick Without Tears

ANGELS AND SHAVING 365 experience is perfectly paralleled by the simplest and commonest phenomena of our daily life! People who tell you that it is "all quite different beyond the Veil" or what not, are blithering incompetents totally ignorant of the nature of things. On the contrary, I will tell you more about "communication . " There is a method of using Ethyl Oxide which enables one (a) to analyse one's thoughts with a most exquisite subtlety and accuracy , (b) to find out-in the French phrase-"what is at the bottom of the bottle." By this they mean the final result of any project or investigation; and this; surprisingly often, is not at all what it is possible to discover by any ordinary means. For instance , one might ask oneself "Do I believe in God?" and, after a vast number of affirmative answers of constantly increasing depth and subtlety , discover with a shock that "at the bottom of the bottle" one believed nothing of the sort! Or vice versa. On one occasion the following experiment was carried out . A certain Adept was to make use of the Sacred Vapour , and when the time seemed ripe, to answer such questions as should be put to him by his Scribe. Presently, after about an hour's silence , the Scribe asked: "Is communication possible?" By this he meant merely to enquire whether it would now be in order for him to begin to ask his prepared list of questions. But the Adept thought that this was Question No. I : meaning "Is there any valid means of making contact between two minds?" He remained intensely silent-intensely, as opposed to his previous rather fidgety abstention from talking-for a very long time, and then broke slowly into a long seductive ripple of hushed laughter , suggestive of the possession of some