Magick Without Tears

FEAR 389 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