Magick Without Tears

75 The A :. A :. And the Planet Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. You write: Am I to understand that the A :. A :. has two main lines of Work. (1) The initiation of Individuals. (2) Action on the world in general-say "Weltpolitik "? Because your letters on the History of Magick do imply (2); and yet the A :. A :. discourages any form of group working. Is it that the Masters (8° = 3D Magistri TempliJ having been admitted to the Third Order-the A :. A :. proper; below this are R.R. et A. C and G :. D :. -are no longer liable to the dangers which make group activity in lower grades undesirable. Or do they still work as Individuals. yet. because they are initiates, appear to act as a corporate body? You have often expressed yourself as if this were so. "Of course. They had to pick on me to do the dirty work" is a typical growl of the old Big Lion! But again there is that Magical Memory of yours when you came down from that Hermitage in the little wood overhanging the nullah below the Great Peak "somewhere in Asia" and sat in some sort of Consistory in the valley where the great Lamaserai-or whatever it was-towers over the track. (I quote some of your phrases from memory.) Which is it? 453