Magick Without Tears

28 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS wish to instruct. I call forth "spirits" such as printers, publishers, booksellers, and so forth, and constrain them to convey my message to those people. The composition and distribution is thus an act of-MAGICK-by which I cause Changes to take place in conformity with my Will.l) II. POSTULATE. ANY required Change may be effected by application of the proper kind and degree of Force in the proper manner through the proper medium to the proper object. (Illustration: I wish to prepare an ounce of Chloride of Gold. I must take the right kind of acid , nitro-hydrochloric and no other, in sufficient quantity and of adequate strength, and place it, in a vessel which will not break, leak or corrode, in such a manner as will not produce undesirable results, with the necessary quantity of Gold, and so forth. Every Change has its own conditions. In the present state of our knowledge and power some changes are not possible in practice ; we cannot cause eclipses, for instance, or transform lead into tin, or create men from mushrooms. But it is theoretically possible to cause in any object any change of which that object is capable by nature; and the conditions are covered by the above postulate.) III. THEOREMS. 1. Every intentional act is a Magical Act.2 (Illustration: See "Definition" above.) 2. Every successful act has conformed to the postulate . 3. Every failure proves that one or more requirements of the postulate have not been fulfilled . (Illustration: There may be failure to understand the case; as when a doctor makes a wrong diagnosis, and his 1. By "intentional" I mean "willed." But even unintentional acts so seeming are not truly so. Thus, breathing is an act of the Wtll-to-Jive. 2. In one sense Magick may be defined as the name given to Science by the vulgar.