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MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS 
In all such cases the operative consciousness does not 
reside in any single person, as one might argue that it did 
when a orator "carries away" his audience. But these remarks 
have rather shunted one into a siding away from the main 
line of argument. My most important point is to insist that 
even with the most familiar forms of energy, man has done 
no creative work so ever. He has discovered, examined, 
measured (rather clumsily) and used, but in no case has he 
understood, still less explained, the causes of phenomena. 
Sometimes he cannot even reconcile different "laws of 
Nature ." So we find l.W.N. 
Sullivan exclaiming "The 
scientific adventure may yet have to be abandoned," and to 
me personally he confessed "It may yet turn out that the 
mathematical approach to Reality may have to be supplanted 
by the Magical." 
Now in Nature it leaps at one that Will and Intelligence are 
behind phenomena. Myoid friend and colleague Professor 
Buckmaster, who wrote a book on "Blood" which, he 
admitted, could not possibly be understood by more than six 
people, told me that the ingenuity of the structure of the 
human kidney "almost frightened" him. Yet in all Nature 
there is no trace whatever of any purpose such as human 
mentality can grasp. Again, apparent purpose often appears 
to be baffled . Take one example . Evolution, working through 
thousands of years to establish a most subtle scheme of 
cross-fertilization, found, just as it was perfect, conditions so 
altered that it was completely useless. 
The "law of cause and effect" itself took a death-blow 
when Heisinger showed that the old formula "If A then B" 
was invalid, and must be altered to "If A, then B or C or D or 
E or ... " 
But at least we know enough phenomena to make it 
certain that Will and Intelligence do exist somehow apart 
from any nervous and cerebral system of which we are aware, 
and that these must be of a type which transcends our human 
consciousness as that does that of a limpet or a lichen. 
It follows that somehow, somewhere, there must be