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MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS 
the excessive simplication given in Eight Lectures on Yoga is 
a practical advantage . 
Any given type of Yoga is the work of a lifetime and for 
that reason alone it is desirable to confine oneself from the 
beginning to an absolutely simple programme. 
What then is the difference between Yoga and Magick? 
Magick is extraversion, the discovery of and subsequently the 
classification of and finally the control of new worlds on new 
planes. So far as it concerns the development of the mind its 
object and method are perfectly simple. What is wanted is 
exaltation. The aim is to identify oneself with the highest 
essence of whatever world is under consideration. 
With Yoga you might easily slip into saying that it was 
identical, with the exception that the new worlds are from 
the start recognised as already existing within the human 
cosmos, but nobody is asked to extend these worlds in any 
way; on the contrary the object is to analyse ever more 
minutely, and the control to which one approaches is not 
external but internal. At all times one is concentrated on the 
idea of simplication. The recognition of any new idea or form 
of ideas, is invariably the signal for its rejection: "not that, 
not that." 
One might simplify this explanation by constructing some 
sort of apophthegm; Magic is the journey from 0 to 2, Yoga 
from 2 to o. It is a very good rule for the Yogi to keep his 
mind constantly fixed on the fact that any idea soever is 
false. There is actually a Hindu proverb "That which can be 
thought is not true." Consequently the existence of any idea 
in the mind is an immediate refutation of it, but equally the 
contraries as well as contradictory of that idea are false, and 
the result of this is to knock the second law of formal logic 
to pieces. 
One puts up a sort of sorites-a is b, therefore a is not b; 
therefore not a is not b; and all these contrary statements are 
equally false, but in order to realise this fact they must 
themselves be announced by the mind as ecstatic discoveries 
of truth. 
The result of all this naturally is that the mind very rapidly