Magick Without Tears

5 The Universe: The 0=2 Equation Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Yes, I admit everything! It is all my fault. Looking over my past writings , I do see .that my only one-pointed attempt to set forth a sound ontology was my early fumbling little brochure Berashith. 1 Since then , I seem to have kept assuming that everybody knew all about it ; referring to it, quoting it, but never sitting down seriously to demonstrate the thesis, or even to state it in set terms. Chapter 0 of Magick in Theory and Practice skates gently over it ; the "Naplbs Arrangement" in The Book of Thoth dodges it with really diabolical ingenuity. I ask myself why. It is exceedingly strange, because every time I think of the Equation, I am thrilled with a keen glow of satisfaction that this sempiternal Riddle of the Sphinx should have been answered at last. So then let me now give myself the delight , and you the comfort , of stating the problem from its beginning , and proving the soundness of the solution-of showing that the contradiction of this Equation is unthinkable . Are you ready? Forward! Paddle! A. We are aware. B. We cannot doubt the existence (whether "real" or "illusory" makes no difference) of something, because doubt itself is a form of awareness. C. We lump together all that of which we are aware under 1. See Oowley, Collected Works. 52