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MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS 
This statement is the first need of the world to-day for we 
are plagued with Meddlesome Matties, male and female, 
whose one overmastering passion is to mind other peoples' 
business. They can think of nothing but "control." They aim 
at an Ethic like that of the Convict Prison; at a civilization 
like that of the Bees or the Termites. But neither history nor 
biology acquaint us with any form of progress achieved by 
any of these communities. Penal settlements and Pall Mall 
Clubs have not even made provision for the perpetuation of 
their species; and all such "well-ordered" establishments are 
quite evidently defenceless against any serious change in their 
environment . They have failed to comply with the first 
requirements of biology; at best, they stagnate, they achieve 
nothing, they never "get anywhere." 
A settled society is useful at certain periods; when, for 
instance, it is advisable to consolidate the gains gotten by 
pioneer adventurers; but history shows with appalling clarity 
that the very qualities which serve to protect must inevitably 
destroy the very conditions which they aim to preserve. 
Hey! Hasn't the dear old Book of Lies got its word on the 
subject? 
Never known to fail! 
The Wound of Amfortas 
The 
Self-Mastery 
of Percivale 
became 
the 
Self-masturbatery of the Bourgeois. 
Vir-tus has become "virtue. " 
The qualities which have made a man, a race. a city. a 
caste, must be thrown off; death is the penalty oj 
failure. As it is written: In the hour of success sacrifice 
that which is dearest to thee unto the Infernal Gods! 
The Englishman lives upon the excrement of his 
forefathers. 
All moral codes are worthless in themselves; yet in every 
new code there is hope. Provided always that the code 
is not changed because it is too hard, but because it is 
fulfilled.