Magick Without Tears

8 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS is to be properly directed . You must find your True Will, and make all your actions subservient to the one great purpose. Ra Hoor is the Sun God ; Tahuti is the Egyptian Mercury; Khephra is the Sun at midnight. About your problems : what I have to do is to try to teach you to think clearly. You will be immensely stimulated by having all the useless trimmings stripped from your thinking apparatus. For instance, I don't think you know the first principles of logic. You apparently take up a more or less Christian attitude, but at the same time you like very much the idea of Karma. You cannot have both. The question about money does not arise. This old and very good rule (which I have always kept) was really pertinent to the time when there were actual secrets. But I have published openly all the secrets. All I can do is to train you in a perfectly exoteric way. My suggestion about the weekly letter was intended to exclude this question, as you would be getting full commercial value for anything paid. Your questions about the Spirit of the Sun, and so on, are to be answered by experience. Intellectual satisfaction is worthless. I have to bring you to a state of mind completely superior to the mechanism of the normal mind. A good deal of your letter is rather difficult to answer. You always seem to want to put the cart before the horse. Don't you see that , if I were trying to get you to do something or other , I should simply return to you the kind of answer which I thought would satisfy you , and make you happy? And this would be very easy to do because you have got no clear ideas about anything . For one thing, you keep on using terms about whose significance we are not yet in agreement. When you talk about the "Christian path ," do you believe in vicarious atonement and eternal damnation-or don't you? A great deal of the confusion that arises in all these questions, and grows constantly worse as fellow-students talk them over-the blind leading the blind-is because they have no idea of the necessity of defining their terms.