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in the least." Though, even in that case it is magically true, or 
should be. As in the case of the young lady who got carried 
on to Crewe. The unplanned adventure may have proved 
much more amusing.) How am I to tell whether you were 
seeing correctly? Suppose your chosen hexagram had been VI 
Sung "Contention" or XXIX I "Nourishing"? Where would 
be the 'vision'? You are to set out to explore a country 
unknown to you: How can I be sure that you have actually 
been there? How can you be sure yourself? You can't. You 
have got to display the congruity of your vision with the 
account of the country given in the Text. If you take Khien 
I, which is all Lingams and Dragons, and you describe it as a 
landscape in the Broads, I can only conclude that you did not 
get anywhere near it. 
Then you produce a monk , and never get his name or 
office. Finally after you return, you get this Caballero 
dropping in unasked. 
Alas! I fear me much this was no Astral journey at all; it 
reads like weak imagination tinged by desire. All you got of 
interest was the answer to your question ; and that you 
should 
have gripped , made more precise, analysed, 
interpreted. Dear me, no! 
Final shot: my instinct is all against the "lying in bed." 
These visions are intensely active: the hardest kind of work. 
Read Liber CDXVIIl , 2nd Aethyr (and others) to understand 
the appalling physical strain, when you reach remote , 
well-guarded, and exalted confines of the Universe. 
In every sense of the expression-SIT UP! 
(I'm "sitting up" myself to finish this letter . Here goes for 
the last lap!) 
Music. Justifiable? Why not? A help to your great Work, 
an aspect of your Will, nicht wahr? Go to it! 
Apollo is the God of Music, pre-eminently; but He is too 
all-comprehensive, all-pervading, to be much use in a 
Talisman except as a general background. But there are the 
Muses: Polymnia (or Polyhymnia) seems the one you want: 
she inspires the sublime hymn. How to invoke her is a matter