Magick Without Tears

448 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS You understand, of course, that I say all this merely in indication? or rather, as I said before, as an appeal for clemency. On the contrary (you will retort) you are a mean cat (Felix Leo, please!) not to let us all in on the ground floor of so imposing a Cathedral! Oh, curse this mind of mine! I just can't help running to hide under the broad skirts of the Qabalah! It's Disk, Sword, Cup and Wand again! Sorry, but c'est trap fort pour moi. Disks. To master Earth, remember that the Disk is always spinning; fix this idea, get rid of its solidity. Commonly, the first tests of the young Aspirant refer to cash-"that's God's sole solid in this world." The proper magical attitude is very hard to describe. (I'm not talking of that black hen's egg any mbre; that is simple.) Very sorry to have to say it, but it is not unlike that of the spendthrift. Money must circulate, or it loses its true value. A banker in New York once told me that the dollar circulated nine times as fast as the English equivalent, so that people seemed to themselves to be nine times as rich. (I told you about the £ 100 note in a special letter on Money.) But here I am stressing the spiritual effect; what happens is that anxiety vanishes; one feels that as it goes out, so it comes in. This view is not incompatible with thrift and prudence, and all that lot of virtues; far from it, it tucks in with them quite easily. You must practise this; there's a knack in it. Success in this leads to a very curious result indeed; not only does the refusal to count (Fourpen'north of Yoga, please miss, and mum says can I have a penny if I bring back the bottle?), bring about the needlessness of counting, but also one acquires the power to command! A century ago, very nearly, there lived in Bristol an "Open Brother" named Muller, who was a wizard at this; Grace before breakfast, the usual palaver about the Lord and His blessings and His bounty et cetera, da capo; to conclude "and, Blessed Lord, we would Humbly venture to remind Thee that this morning Thou art £3 4s. 6 1/2d. short in the