Magick Without Tears

KNACK 373 the master, and the reason for that is really rather beyond my analysis so far as that has gone at present. I do not know whether it is some kind of awakening of some faculty of the magical self, though that seems to me the simplest and most probable explanation; but in any case there is no doubt about the nature of the experience, and there can be no difficulty about the recognition of it when it occurs. It reminds me of the story of the Psychologist who wanted to judge the difference in temperament between an Englishman, a Scotsman and an Irishman, in judging the amount of Whisky in a bottle in the next room. They had to go in, report, and come back, and tell him what they thought about it. He filled it 50 percent with great accuracy. The Irishman came back fairly cheerful; he rubbed his hands; "Well, there 's half a bottle left, your honour ." When the Scotsman came back his face was full of gloom: "I'm afraid," he says, "that half a bottle has gone." Then the Englishman had his turn. He came in allover smiles, rubbing his hands, and said: "There's not a drop left, so that's that." Moral-Be English! Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666