Magick Without Tears

THE A:. A:. 461 Order make it easier for a man to do his True Will, they are admirable. It is when system is adored for its own sake, or as a means of endowing mediocrities with power as such, that the "critical temperature" is attained. It so happens that I write this on the eve of a General Election in England; and it seems to me that whichever wins, England loses. The Socialists openly proclaim that they mean to run the country on the lines of a convict prison; but the Tories , for all their fine talk , would be helpless against the Banks and the Trusts to whom they must look for support. Still, perhaps with a little help from Hashish, one can imagine a Merchant Prince or a Banker being intelligent, or even, in a weak moment, human; and this is not the case with officials. The standard, moreover, of education and Good Manners, low as it is, is less low in Tory circles. As I think that totalitarian methods are already on the way to extinguish the last spark of manly independence-that is, in self-styled civilized countries-it seems to me that we all should regard with shrewd suspicion any plans for "perfecting" social conditions . The extreme horror is the formula of the gregarious type of insect. Inherent in the premises is the impossibility of advance. One may sum the policy of the A:. A:. as follows : I. To assist the initiation of the individual. 2. To maintain a form of social order in which the adventure of initiation is easy-to undertake! 3. To work out the Magical Formula of the New Aeon. "Ye-e-ss, I s-e-e." I doubt it. But what you are asking is how to decide upon your personal programme. The intelligent visitor from who knows what planet was puzzled. He chanced to have landed in England-to find a General Election in full blast. (The operative word is "blast.") They must be absolute imbeciles, was his first