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MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS 
If the Sun and Moon should doubt 
They'd immediately go out. 
Or in that other chapter of The Book of Lies: 
The Mountaineer 
Consciousness is a symptom of disease. 
All that moves well moves without will. 
All skilfulness, all strain, all intention is contrary to 
ease. 
Practise a thousand times, and it becomes difficult; a 
thousand, thousand, and it becomes easy; a thousand, 
thousand times a thousand thousand , and it is no 
longer Thou that doeth it, but It that doeth itself 
through thee. Not until then is that which is done well 
done. 
Thus spoke FRA TER PERDURABO as he leapt from 
rock to rock of the moraine without ever casting his 
eyes upon the ground. 
Or in The Book of the Law. You know the passage well 
enough. 
Conclusion : this discussion has for ever abolished the use 
of the word faith to imply conscious belief of any sort. 
At least, if there should ever be an element of awareness, it 
is of the nature of a sudden leap into daylight of the 
quintessence of a mass of subconsciously selected and 
ordered experience. 
Then what , if you please, did Paul mean when he wrote 
"Faith is the substance of things hoped-for, the evidence of 
things unseen." Oh, spot the Lady! 
Love is the law, love under will. 
Yours, 
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