Magick Without Tears

METHOD OF TRAINING 493 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