Magick Without Tears

OBSTACLES ON THE PATH 451 Greetings and Adorations and all such mnemonics, you are not likely to go very far wrong. Wands: this is obviously a pure question of Will. You will find as you go on that obstacles of varying degrees of difficulty confront you ; and the way in which you deal with them is most carefully watched. The best advice that I can give is to remember that there is little need of the Bull-at-a-Gate method , though that must always be ready in reserve; no, the best analogy is rapier-play. Elastic strength . Warfare shows us. That seems to cover your question more or less; but don't forget that it depends on yourself how much of the dramatic quality colours your Path. I suppose I have been lucky to have had the use of all the traditional trappings ; but it is always possible to make a "coat of many colours" out of a heap of rags. To show you that you have had Chaucer and John Runyan - yes, and Laurence Sterne : to bring up the rear, James Thomson (B.V.) to say nothing of Conrad and Hardy. Nor let me forget The Cream of the Jest and The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck of my friend, James Branch Cabell. So now, fair damozel , bestride thy palfrey , and away to the Mountains of Magick! Love is the law. love under will. Fraternally , 666 P. S. One danger I had purposely passed over, as it is not likely to come your way. But, since others may read these letters- Some, and these the men of highest promise, often of great achievement , are tempted by Treason. They acquire a "Judas-complex," think how splendid it would be if they were to destroy the Order-or, at the very least, unhorse the Master. This is, of course , absurd in itself, because if they had crossed . the Abyss, they would understand why it is impossible. It would be like "destroying Electricity ," or