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MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS 
Try another aspect. 
We tracked the cause: it was frustration . Good: then we 
must counter it. How? Only (in the last event) by getting the 
mind firmly fixed in the complete philosophy of Thelema. 
There is no such thing as frustration . Every step is a step on 
the Path. It is simply not true that you are being baulked. 
The height of your irritation is a direct measure of the 
intensity of your Energy. Again, you soon come to laugh at 
yourself for your impatience . Probably (you surmise) your 
trouble is exactly that: you are pushing too hard. Your mind 
runs back to AL, I: 44; you realize (again!) that any result 
actually spoils the Truth and Beauty of the Act of Will; it is 
almost a burden, even an insult. Rather as if I risked my life 
to save yours , and you tipped me half-a-crown! Here's that 
Book of Lies popping out its ugly mug again: "Thou hast 
become the Way." This is why the Ankh or "Key of Life" is 
a sandal-strap, borne in the hand of every God as a mark of 
his Godhead: a God is one who goes. (If I remember rightly, 
Plato derives Theos from a verb meaning 'to run' , and is 
heartily abused by scholars for so doing. But perhaps the 
dreary old sophist was not far wrong, for once.) What you 
need to do, then, is to knot all these ideas into a very close 
pattern; to make of them a consecrated Talisman. Then, 
when rage takes you, it can be thrown upon the fire to stifle 
it: to thrust against the Demon, to disintegrate him. The 
great point is to have this weapon very firmly constructed, 
very complete . Your rage will pass in one of those two ways, 
which are one: Rapture and Laughter. 
Astral Fligh t ! ! ! 
Excuse me if I mention it, but-no doubt the fault is 
mine-you seem to have failed to note any single one of all 
my prayerful injunctions , either in the letter or on your visit. 
Perhaps you thought that I should take circles and 
pentagrams etc. for granted; but you give no hint of the 
object of your journey. (No don't quote AL, I: 44 at me; it 
doesn't mean that. I don't expect you to answer the clerk at 
the booking-office "Where to, madam?" with "I don't mind