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MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS 
"debunking" 
the Venus of Milo. The maximum success 
possible in such an operation 
would be to become a 
"Black-Brother"; but what happens in practice, so far as my 
own experience goes, is complete dispersion of the mental 
faculties amounting to suicide; I could quote no less than four 
cases in which actual physical self-murder was the direct 
result.