Magick Without Tears

432 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS Yes. I have written on Education in Liber Aleph: the Book of Wisdom or Folly. The book is itself Education; there are, however, six chapters which treat of the subject in the special sense in which your question has involved us. So I shall fling these chapters headlong into this letter. De Voluntate Juvenum Long, 0 my Son, hath been this Digression from the plain Path of my Word concerning Children; but it was most needful that thou shouldst understand the Limits of true Liberty. For that is not the Will of any Man which ultimateth in his own Ruin and that of all his Fellows; and that is not Liberty whose Exercise bringeth him to Bondage. Thou mayst therefore assume that it is always an essential Part of the Will of any Child to grow to Manhood or to Womanhood in Health, and his Guardians may therefore prevent him from ignorantly acting in Opposition thereunto, Care being always taken to remove the Cause of the Error, namely, Ignorance, as aforesaid. Thou mayst also assume that it is Part of the Child's Will to train every Function of the Mind; and the Guardians may therefore combat the Inertia which hinders its Development . Yet here is much Caution necessary, and it is better to work by exciting and satisfying any natural Curiosity than by forcing Application to set Tasks, however obvious this Necessity may appear. De Modo Dispu tandi Now in this Training of the Child is one most dear Consideration, that I shall impress upon thee as is Conformity with our holy Experience in the Way of Truth And it is this, that since that which can be thought is not true, every Statement is in some sense false. Even on the Sea of pure Reason, we may say that