Magick Without Tears

INTRODUCTION 23 at any time: that supersensible is getting on my nerves: do you mean "not in normal circumstances to be apprehended by the senses?" I suppose so. In a word: do fix a convenient season for going on the Astral Plane under my eye: half an hour (with a bit of luck) on not more than four evenings would put you in a- very different frame of mind. You will soon "feel your feet" and then "get your sea-legs" and then, much sooner than you think "Afloat in the aethyr, 0 my God! my God! ... White swan, bear thou ever me up between thy wings!" 3. Now then to your old Pons Asinorum about the names of the Gods! Stand in the corner for half an hour with your face to the wall! Stay in after school and write Malkah be-Tharshishim ve-ad-Ruachoth be-Schehalim 999 times! My dear, dear, dear sister, a name is a formula of power . How can you talk of "anachronism" when the Being is eternal? For the type of energy is eternal. Every name is a number: and "Every number is infinite: there is no difference" (AL, I: 4). But one Name, or system of Names, may be more convenient either (a) to you personally or (b) to the work you are at. E.g. I have very little sympathy with Jewish Theology or ritual; but the Qabalah is so handy and congenial that I use it more than almost any-or all the others together-for daily use and work. The Egyptian Theogony is the noblest, the most truly magical, the most bound to me (or rather I to it) by some inmost instinct, and by the memory of my incarnation as Ankh-f-n-Khonsu, that I use it (with its Graeco-Phoenician child) for work of supreme import. Why stamp my vitals, madam! the Abramelin Operation itself turned into this form before I could so much as set to work on it! like the Duchess' baby (excuse this enthusiasm; but you have aroused the British Lion-Serpent). Note, please, that the equivalents given in 777 are not always exact . Tahuti is not quite Thoth, still less Hermes; Mercury is a very much more comprehensive idea, but not