80 
Life A Gamble 
Cara Soror, 
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 
In one or two-no, I think more like three or four-letters 
of yours to hand in the last couple of months , you have put 
forward various excuses for slackness, the necessities of your 
economic situation . You say you must have "regular work," 
and a "steady income ," and all that sort of thing. My 
innocent child, that species of Magick is quite simple. Take 
the horns of a hare ... That's enough for the present: I'll tell 
you what to do with them when you've got them. 
In Macbeth we read-
... Security 
Is mortals' chiefest enemy. 
but this is another kind of security ; it is the Hybris which 
"tempts Providence," the insolence of thinking that nothing 
can go wrong. 
Anyhow, there's no such thing as safety . Life is a gamble. 
From the moment of incarnation a million accidents are 
possible. Miscarriage, still-birth, abortion; throughout life, 
until your heart beats for the last time, "you never can 
tell-and 
then you start all over again with your next 
incarnation! " 
(I wish I had a copy of a short story of mine called "Every 
Precaution".) The gallant young Uplift Expert, the one 
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