Magick Without Tears

FAITH 405 Price's young lady of Brocken fame, who was so timorously careful of her virginity that she never felt it safe unless she had a man in bed with her. What is the other kind of faith? Like its hostile twin, it must have no truck with reason, at least no conscious truck, or it ceases to possess a moral meaning. It is that confidence l in oneself which assures one that the long shot at the tiger will fly true to the mark, that the tricky putt will go down, that the man one never beat before will go down this time; also its horrid contrary, the moral certainty that something will go wrong, even with the easiest problems, with one hundred to one in one's favour. I think the official answer is that one's certainty is in reality based upon subconscious calculation, so that faith has nothing whatever to do with it. If there is any answer to this, I don't know it. After all, that is neither here nor there; there is but one material issue: how to acquire that kind of faith. Suppose we hunt it up in that precious Book of Lies! Any luck? Steeped Horsehair Mind is a disease of semen. All that a man is or mayljds hidden therein. Bodily functions are parts. of the1hachine; silent, unless in dis-ease. But mind, never at ease, creaketh "I." This I persisteth not, posteth not through generations, changeth momently, finally is dead. Therefore is man only himself when lost to himself in The Charioting. Nothing in that to contradict the official view, is there? Nothing in biology either. Or in Blake: I. "Confidence"· CU"', with; /#den, to trust = to trust fully. This confidence of which I write is usuaDy a sort of "bunch."