FEAR 
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attack from within upon the virgin citadel of Self. It is high 
treason to existence. Its results are immediately harmful; it 
begets depression, melancholy, despair. In fact, one does 
wisely to take the bear by the ring in his snout; accept his 
conclusions, agree that it is all abject and futile and silly-and 
turn the hose-pipe of the Trance of Laughter on him until he 
dances to your pleasure. 
But-is this any answer to your problem? It disturbs me a 
little that you should try to palm off "Peace" upon my 
sentries as the password. Too often peace is merely the result 
of war-weariness, and the very negation of victory. It is (or 
may be) the formula of sloth and the gateway of stagnation. 
Life is to be a continuous vibration of ecstasy; and so it is 
for the Adept, whenever his work allows him time to 
consider the matter, consciously, and even when his work 
pre-empts his attention, is an eternal fountain of pure joy 
springing, a crystal fragrance of reverberating light from the 
most inmost caverns of the Heart. It secretly informs one's 
dullest 
thought 
with sparkling wine, radiant in the 
Aethyr-see well! the least excuse, since it is always there, 
and champing at its bit, to turn the dreary cart-horse drudge 
into proud Pegasus himself! 
This is where I want to have you, with us who are come 
thus far, in a state utterly detached from the Ego, so that you 
appear the plain Jane Wolfe "doing your duty in the state of 
life to which it has pleased God to call you" and 
consequently unremarked-like 
a Rosicrucian, "wearing the 
habit of the country in which you are travelling" -
but 
trembling with interior illumination, so that the first 
relaxation of the constant conscious burden of Jane Wolfe, 
Soror Estai is automatically released, a pillar of Creative 
Light. 
"I am Thou! and the Pillar is 'stablished in the Void!" 
(Liber LXV, as you know, is full of these explosions.) 
No; I am not at all sure that all this is the answer that you 
need about white rages. Yet it is certainly contained herein, 
or, at the least, implied.