404 
MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS 
any statement 
as true without 
criticism, examination, 
verification, or any other method of test. Faith of this sort is 
evidently the main symptom of the moron, the half-wit, the 
village idiot . It is this kind of faith upon the possession and 
exercise of which religious persons always insist as the first 
condition of salvation. 
Here is my own lamentable foresight on the subject! 
The Convert 
(A Hundred Years Hence) 
There met one eveJn a sylvan glade 
A horrible Man and a beautiful maid. 
"Where are you going so meek and holy?" 
"I'm going to temple to worship Crowley. " 
"Crowley is God then? How did you know?" 
"Why. it's Captain Fuller that told us so. " 
"And how do you know that Fuller was right?" 
"I'm afraid you're a wicked man; good-night. " 
While this sort of thing is styled success 
I shall not count failure bitterness. 
Sometimes, note well! they are even frank about it, and 
say plainly that there would be no merit in it if there were 
any reasonable basis for it! This position is at the worst both 
honest and intelligible; the only trouble is that there is no 
possible 
means of deciding which of two conflicting 
statements to accept. 
In faith of this kind there are of course in practice 
delicately shaded degrees; these depend mostly upon the 
authority of the speaker and your relations with, and opinion 
of, him. In practice, moreover, faith is usually tinged-should 
I say clouded?-by questions of probability. I see no need to 
weary you with examples of varying degrees; it is enough to 
dismiss the subject with the remark that faith is not true faith 
if any considerations of any kind sully its virgin nullity. 
To prop faith is to destroy it: I am reminded of Mr. Harry