14 
MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS 
correspondences given in the books of reference without 
thinking out why they are so given. Thus, you find a camel in 
the number which refers to the Moon, but the Tarot card 
"the Moon" refers not to the letter Gimel which means 
camel, but to the letter Qoph , and the sign Pisces which 
means fish, while the letter itself refers to the back of the 
head; and you also find fish has the meaning of the letter 
Nun. You must not go on from this. and say that the back of 
your head is like a camel-the connection between them is 
simply that they all refer to the same thing. 
In studying the Qabalah you mention six months; I think 
after that time you should be able to realize that, after six 
incarnations of uninterrupted study, you may realize that 
you can never know it; as Confucius said about the Yi King: 
"If a few more years were added to my life, J would devote a 
hundred of them to the study of the Yi." 
If, however, you 
work at the Qabalah in the same way as I did myself, in 
season and out of season, you ought to get a very fair grasp 
of it in six months. I will now tell you what this method is: 
as I walked about , I made a point of attributing everything I 
saw to its appropriate idea. I would walk out of the door of 
my house and reflect that door is Daleth, and house Beth; 
now the word dob is Hebrew for bear, and has the number 6, 
which refers to the Sun. Then you come to the fence of your 
property and that is Cheth-number 8, Tarot Trump 7, which 
is the Chariot : so you begin to look about for your car. Then 
you come to the street and the first house you see IS number 
86, and that is Elohim, and it is built of red brick which 
reminds you of Mars and the Blasted Tower, and so on. As 
soon as this sort of work, which can be done in a quite 
lighthearted spirit, becomes habitual, you will find your mind 
running naturally in this direction, and will be surprised at 
your progress. Never let your mind wander from the fact that 
your Qabalah is not my Qabalah; a good many of the things 
which I have noted may be useful to you, but you must 
construct your own system so that it is a living weapon in 
your hand.