Magick Without Tears

406 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, 666