426 
MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS 
read One Star in Sight again, and do for God's sake try to 
assimilate the information there very clearly and very fully 
given! 
You say that you must tread the Path alone: quite true, if 
only because anything that exists for you is necessarily part 
of yourself. Yet you have to "go to others," and you become 
a veritable busybody. You quote odd opinions at random 
without the means of estimating their value. 
Cannot I ever get you to understand 
the difference 
between an honest and dishonest teacher? I have always 
made it a rule never to put forward any statement of which I 
cannot produce proof; when I venture a personal opinion it is 
always Marked in Plain Figures to that effect. (I refer you to 
Magick p. 368; p. 375, paragraphs 1 and 2; and p. 415, 
paragraphs 000 and 00. We insist from the beginning on the 
individual character of the work , and upon the necessity of 
maintaining the objective and sceptical standpoint. You are 
explicitly warned against reliance upon "authority," 
even 
that of the Order itself.) Consider my own assets, personal , 
social, educational, experiential and the rest; don't you see 
that all I had to do was to put out some brightly-coloured 
and mellifluous lie, and avoid treading on too many toes, to 
have had hundreds of thousands of idiots worshipping me? 
Please get a Konx Om Pax somehow , and read p. XII: 
and so on. 
It's only too easy to form a cult, 
To cry a crusade with "Deus Vult" 
A pinch of Bible, a gal/on of gas, 
And I, or any otherguess ass, 
Could bring to our mystical moonlight mass 
Those empty-headed Athenians. 
But I never forget that I am working on the 2,000 year 
basis; my work will stand when all the pompous platitudes 
and pleasant pieties have withered for the iridescent soft-soap 
bubbles that they are.