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Magick Without Tears
Magick Without Tears (1954), PDF p. 80
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HIEROGLYPHICS
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meanings, these words again combined into phrases by no less
high-handed a procedure .
And then folk wonder how it is that there should be error
and misunderstanding in the transmission of thought from
one person to another! Rather regard it as a miraculous
intervention of Providence when even one of even the
simplest ideas "gets across." Now then, this being so, it is
evidently good sense to construct one's own alphabet , with
one's own very precise definitions, in order to handle an
abstruse and technical subject like Magick. The "ordinary"
words such as God, self, soul, spirit and the rest have been
used so many thousand times in so many thousand ways,
usually by writers who knew not, or cared not for the
necessity of definition that to use them to-day in any
scientific essay is almost ludicrous.
That is all, just now, sister; no more of your cavilling,
please; sit down quietly with your 777, and get it by heart!
Love is the law, love under will.
Fraternally ,
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