Magick Without Tears

474 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