506 
MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS 
and more towards the side of Magick. I do not know why this 
should have been, but that it is so I have no doubt whatever. 
I see quite clearly now that Yoga from its very first 
beginnings is liable to lead the mind away into a condition of 
muddle, and though for each such state Yoga itself provides 
the necessary cure, may not one ask oneself it it is really wise 
to begin one's work with axioms and postulates which are 
inherently 
dangerous. The whole controversy might be 
expressed as a differential equation. Their curves become 
identical only at infinity, and there is no doubt, at least to 
my mind, that the curve of Magick follows a more pleasant 
track than that of Yoga. 
To take one point alone: it is evidently more satisfactory 
to have one's malignant demons external to oneself. 
As I have written it has become clearer to me that this is 
the case, but I should not like you to arise from its perusal 
with any idea that I have been in some way derogating Yoga. 
I would not like to maintain that it is necessary to Magick 
because there have been many very great magicians who 
know nothing at all of the subject but I am just as strongly 
convinced as I was before that the practice of Yoga in itself is 
of enormous 
assistance to the Magician in his more 
intelligible path, only adding that he should beware lest the 
logical antinomies inherent in Yoga divert him from or 
discourage him in his simple path. 
Love is the law, love under will. 
Fraternally, 
666