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validity, of our system, is the matchless harmony of its 
elements. Always, when we pursue anyone path to its end, 
we find that it has become one with some other path which 
at the outset appeared utterly irreconcilable with it. 
("Write down that the tearing apart is the crushing 
together" comes from an actual experience. See Liber 418, 
The Vision and the Voice, which teems with similar passages, 
and is itself an outstanding example of the unity of the Yogic 
and the Magical methods.) 
To study Yoga, you have my Book 4 Part I and my Eight 
Lectures on Yoga. Then there is Vivekananda's Raja Yoga 
and several little-known Hindu writers; these latter are very 
practical and technical, but one really needs to be a Hindu to 
make much use of them. The former is very good indeed, if 
you remember to switch off when he slides into sloppiness, 
which luckily is not often. 
To study Magick: Book 4. Parts II, III (Magick in Theory 
and Practice) and IV (The Equinox of the Gods). Add The 
Book of Thoth and there you are: 
Being furnished with complete armour and armed. 
he is similar to the Goddess. 
Of other writers, you have The Book of the Sacred Magic 
of Abramelin the Mage, and any of the works of Eliphaz 
Levi. But that's all. 
But-I suppose you knew all this long ago. It may help if I 
try to expound the essence of these two Methods in very 
simple language, and very different language. By contrast and 
comparison, you should be able, without reading even one of 
all those books. to get a perfectly clear idea in perspective of 
"what's coming to you!" 
The process of analysing, developing and controlling the 
mind is the essence of all Yoga practices. 
Magick explores and learns to control those regions of 
Nature which lie beyond the objects of sense. Reaching the 
highest parts of these regions, called the divine, one proceeds