Magick Without Tears

24 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS nearly so exalted: Hanuman hardly at all. Nor is Tetragrammaton lAO, though even etymology asserts the identity . In these matters you must be catholic, eclectic, even synchretic. And you must consider the nature of your work. If I wanted to evoke Taphthartharath, there would be little help indeed from any but the Qabalistic system; for that spirit's precise forms and numbers are not to be found in any other. The converse, however, is not so true. The Qabalah, properly understood , properly treated , is so universal that one can vamp up a ritual to suit almost "any name and form." But in such a case one may expect to have to reinforce it by a certain amount of historical, literary, or philosophic study-and research. 4. Quite right, dear lady, about your incarnation memories acting as a "Guide to the Way Back." Of course, if you "missed an Egyptian Incarnation," you would not be so likely to be a little Martha, worried "about much serving." Don't get surfeited with knowledge, above all things; it is so very fascinating , so dreadfully easy; and the danger of becoming a pedant-"Deuce take all your pedants! say I." Don't "dry-rot at ease 'till the Judgment Day." No, I will NOT recommend a book. It should not hurt you too much to browse on condensed hay (or thistles) such as articles in Encyclopedias . Take Roget's Thesaurus or Smith's Smaller Classical Dictionary (and the like) to read yourself to sleep on. But don 't stultify yourself by taking up such study too seriously. You only make yourself ridiculous by trying to do at 50 what you ought to have done at IS. As you didn't-tant pis! You can't possibly get the spirit; if you could, it would mean merely mental indigestion . We have all read how Cato started to learn Greek at 90: but the story stops there. We have never been told what good it did to himself or anyone else. 5. God-forms . See Magick pp. 378-9. Quite clear: quite adequate: no use at all without continual practice. No one