Magick Without Tears

18 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS you had any experience of travelling in the astral? If not , do you think that you can begin by yourself on the lines laid down in Liber 0, sections 5 and 6? (See Magick, pp. 387-9.) If not you had better let me take you through the first gates. The question of noise instantly arises; I think we should have to do it not earlier than nine o'clock at night, and I don't know whether you can manage this. Cara Soror, Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally, 666 Letter G September 4, 1943 Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. "Shall be" (instead of Do what thou wilt is . .. ) not "is." See Liber AL, I: 36,54, and II: 54. Not "Master Perdurabo" : see Magick, p. XXIX. "Care Frater" is enough. 777 is practically unpurchasable: copies fetch £10 or so. Nearly all important correspondences are in Magick Table I. The other two books are being sent at once. "Working out games with numbers." I am sorry you should see no more than this. When you are better equipped, you will see that the Qabalah is the best (and almost the only) means by which an intelligence can identify himself. And Gematria methods serve to discover spiritual truths. Numbers are the network of the structure of the Universe, and their relations the form of expression of our Understanding of it. In Greek and Hebrew there is no other way of writing numbers; our 1, 2, 3, etc. comes from the Phoenicians through the Arabs. You need no more of Greek and Hebrew than these values, some sacred words-knowledge grows by use-and books of reference. One cannot set a pupil definite tasks beyond the groundwork I am giving you, and we should find this correspondence taking clear shape of its own accord. You have really more than you can do already. And I can only tell