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MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS 
important forth-showing is on the "Magical" plane, because it 
actually produces phenomena which partake of all these. It is 
the True Will on the creative plane: "By Wisdom formed He 
the worlds." So soon as its thaumaturgy is accomplished, it 
is, through Binah, understood as the Logos. Thus in Sex we 
find everyone of the primary Correspondences of Chokmah. 
Being thus ineffable and sacrosanct , it is (plainly enough) 
peculiarly 
liable to profanation. 
Being profaned, 
it is 
naturally more unspeakably nasty than any other of the 
"Mysteries." 
You will find a good deal on this subject 
implied in Artemis Iota, attached to another of my letters to 
you. 
Before tackling "Sore Spots" seriously, there is after all, 
one point which should be made clear as to this Trinitarian 
simplification. 
One of the most interesting and fruitful periods of my life 
was when I was involved in research as to the meaning of 
Sankhara: "tendencies" 
may be, indeed is, a good enough 
translation, but it leaves one very much as deeply in the dark 
as before. 
You remember-I 
hope!-that 
Sankhara lies 
between 
Vinnanam, 
Pure Consciousness, and Sanna, 
Perception. 
For instance, an electric fan in motion: a 
house-fly "tends" to see the vanes as we do when they are 
still, we "tend" to see a diaphanous blur: 
Then, in delirium tremens, why do we tend to see pink rats 
rather than begonias or gazelles? 
We tend to see the myriad flashing colours of the humming 
bird; the bird itself does not; it has no apparatus of 
colour-sense; to him all appears a neutral tint , varying only in 
degrees of brightness. 
Such were some of the fundamental facts that directed the 
course of my research, whose results you may read in The 
Psychology of Hashish, by Oliver Haddo in The Equinox Vol. 
I, No.2 . 
The general basis of this Essay is Sankhara; it 
shows how very striking are the analogies between (I) the