Magick Without Tears

63 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, 380