Magick Without Tears

462 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS reaction , to risk upsetting the policy of Government with a first-class war on. How are you going to vote? Rather like the question of the dentist . The teeth can be tinkered : of course , sooner or later they have to go. Is it worth the trouble and expense? The Socialists would have them all out right away, and replaced by a set of "dentures ," which (obviously) are perfect. Arrange them, change them, choose your own pattern ; no trouble , no pain: all one's dream come true! But hardly biological. You may argue that convicts are examples of living individuals whose safety, shelter , nourishment and the rest are organized with the utmost care; but accidents will happen in the best-regulated "brown stone jugs." The one ideally automatic case is the foetus. You will agree that here is lack of initiative; in fact, its "True Will" is to escape, albeit into a harsh and hostile universe, fraught with unknown and incalculable dangers. As the Ritual says: "Prepare to enter the Immeasurable Region!" I think your decision should depend on how far caries has travelled on its road of destruction. I do not think that the Masters need be unanimous. A practical plan might be for them to concentrate on one particular group , or one part of the world , and to keep this in as good shape as possible until the time has come for Nature to grow a new set. They will be grown on a new Formula, to meet the new needs , just as when our "permanent" (Alas, not much!) set replace our milk-teeth. You ask me if I think this change can be made without bloodshed. No. The obscure autocrats of Diplomacy and Big Business are infinitely stupid and short-sighted; they cannot see an inch beyond their too often stigmatically shapen probosces , except where the profit of the next financial year is concerned. They live in perpetual panic , and shy at their own