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Fear: a Bad Astral Vision 
Cara Soror, 
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 
Your letter of yesterday: so happy that my last was useful; 
but the vision! I must have failed to make myself clear. We 
shall come to that later in this letter. 
It is reassuring to learn that you are two-thirds human! 
Greed, anger, and sloth are the three Buddhist bed-rock 
badnesses; and you have certainly given the last a miss in 
baulk. It is my own darkest and deadliest foe, and oh how 
mighty! With me he never relaxes. Sounds a paradox! but so 
it is. 
Now as to fear. In the Neophyte ceremony of G :. 0 :. 
when the bandage is first removed from the eyes of the 
Aspirant, Horus, who was in that Aeon "the Lord in the 
West," tells him: "Fear is failure, and the forerunner of 
failure: be thou therefore without fear for in the heart of the 
coward virtue abideth not." 
Listen, my child! I, even I, moi qui vous parle, need no 
information about fear. When I was twelve years old, it was 
discovered that I had defective kidneys; the opinion, nomine 
contradicente, of the Medical Profession was that I could 
certainly never live to be twenty-one. (Some people think 
that they were right!) But after a couple of years with tutors 
in the wildest parts of the country, I was found well enough 
to go to a Public School. They soon found me out! This 
kidney weakness causes depression and physical cowardice, 
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