38 
MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS 
But there is a restricted and conventional sense in which 
the word may be used without straying too far from the 
above philosophical position . One might say: 
"Magick is the study and use of those forms of energy 
which are (a) subtler than the ordinary physical-mechanical 
types, (b) accessible only to those who are (in one sense or 
another) 
'Initiates'." 
I fear that this may sound rather 
obscurum per obscurius; but this is one of those cases-we are 
likely to encounter 
many such in the course of our 
researches-in which we understand, quite well enough for all 
practical purposes, what we mean, but which elude us more 
and more successfully the more accurately we struggle to 
define their import. 
We might fare even worse if we tried to clear things up by 
making lists of events in history, tradition, or experience, and 
classifying this as being, and that as not being, true Magick. 
The borderland cases would confuse and mislead us. 
But-since I have mentioned history-I think it might help, 
if I went straight on to the latter part of your question, and 
gave you a brief sketch of Magick past, present, and future as 
it is seen from the inside. What are the principles of the 
"Masters"? What are They trying to do? What have They 
done in the past? What means do They employ? 
As it happens, I have by me a sketch written by M. Gerard 
Aumont of Tunis some twenty years ago, which covers this 
subject with reasonable adequacy. 
I have been at the pains of translating it from his French, I 
hope not too much reminiscent of the old traduttore, 
traditore. I will revise it, divide it (like Gaul) into Three Parts 
and send it along. 
Love is the law, love under will. 
Fraternally, 
666