Magick Without Tears

10 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS Letter D June 8, 1943 Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Thanks for your letter. I couldn't find the O.T.O. typescript-and then it struck me that it would be useful to await your reactions. If I were expecting some presumably important papers by post , I should get anxious after 24 hours delay (at most) and start enquiries. Anyhow, I can't find them for the moment; but Mr. Bryant said he would lend you his Blue Equinox; pages 195-270 give what you require. But the real point of your affiliating is that it saves me from constantly being on my guard lest I should mention something which I am sworn not to reveal. As in every serious society, members are pledged not to disclose what they may have learnt, whom they have met; it is so, even in Co-Masonry: isn't it: but one may mention the names of members who have died. (See Liber LII, par. 2.) Be happy then: the late X . .. y ... was one of us. I hope that he and Rudolph Steiner will (between them) satisfy your doubts. The A :. A :. is totally different. One Star in Sight tells you everything that you need to know. (Perhaps some of these regulations are hard to grasp: personally, I can never understand all this By-Law stuff. So you must ask me what, and why, and so on.) There is really only one point for your judgment. "By their fruits ye shall know them." You have read Liber LXV and Liber VII; that shows you what states you can attain by this curriculum. Now read A Master of the Temple (Blue Equinox, pp. 127-170) for an account of the early stages of training, and their results. (Of course, your path might not coincide with, or even resemble, his path.) But do get it into your head that "if the blind lead the blind, they shall both fall into the ditch." If you had seen one percent of the mischief that I have seen, you would freeze to the marrow of your bones at the mere idea of seeing