Magick Without Tears

400 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS to those mentioned by Levi, but in much greater intensity, even of a kind more formidable, and directed by malignant will. There is a mighty volume of theory and practice concerning this and cognate subjects which will be open to you when-and if-you attain the VlUO of O.T.O. and become Pontiff and Epopt of the Illuminati. Further, when you enter the Sanctuary of the Gnosis-oh boy! Or, more accurately, oh girl! The forces of Nature employed in these presumably abominable practices are similar or identical. The doctrine of "Vital Force" has been so long and so completely exploded that I hardly need to tell you that in some still undiscovered (or, rather, unpublished) and unmeasured form it is certainly a fact. Haven't I told you one time how we nearly starved on Iztaccihuatl with dozens of tinned foods all round us, they being ancient; of how one can get drunk on half a dozen oysters; of how the best meat I have ever eaten is half-raw Himalayan sheep, cut up and thrown on the glowing ashes before rigor mortis had set in? There is a difference between living and dead protoplasm, whether the chemist and his fellow twilight-gropers admit it or no. I do not blame the ignorance of these fumblers with frost-bitten fingers; but they make themselves conspicuously asinine when they flaunt that ignorance as the Quintessence of Knowledge; Boeotian bombast! Is it possible to intensify the devitalizing process, so as to weaken the victim physically, perhaps even almost to the point of death? Yes. How? The traditional method is to get possession of some object or substance intimately connected with the victim. On this you work magically so as to absorb its virtue. It is best if it was as recently as possible part of his living tissue; for instance, a nail-paring, a hair plucked from his head. Something still alive or nearly so, and still part of the complex of energies that he included in his conception of his body. Best of all are fluids and secretions, notably blood and one